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HMC delivering CPU detail through CLI, REST API

Key points:- Operational Efficiency: Direct access to CPU speed via HMC (CLI/REST API) eliminates the need for agents on client LPARs, simplifying workflows and reducing operational overhead.- Resource Optimization: Bypassing agents frees up LPAR ...
3 days ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

Enhance CREATE ALIAS to support a partition (i.e., member) name of *ALL

When attempting to read a multi-member database file, the only way to jump between members is to (A) do an OVRDBF or (B) create an SQL ALIAS. The SQL engine doesn't seem to respect the override when MBR(*ALL) is specified, and CREATE ALIAS also do...
3 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 0 Submitted
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GitHub actions for ppc64le. Let's make ppc64le a standard!

With the exponential emergence of ARM-based systems we think it is time to make ppc64le a third standard along with x86 and ARM. 1. The context The rise of containerization and cloud-native applications has emphasized the importance of Continuous ...
5 months ago in Linux for Power / RHEL OpenShift (5639-OCP) 8 Under review

Use page 1, line 1 as the starting position when using a PRTF to create a spooled file

When following the documentation at the link below, the spooled file that gets created has a starting position of page 1, line 6. This causes issues when using different form types to print the documents with the new spooled file. https://www.ibm....
12 days ago in IBM i / Print 1 Future consideration

WatsonX and Openshift.ai support on Power. Early Acces Program (Beta testing)

We do have a potentially big oppy in Spain in INDRA. They work for Minitry of Defense and they are starting a project to deal with RADAR imaging where they want to use AI but, given the confidential characteristics of the data, they are promoting ...
26 days ago in Power Ecosystem Software / Government (includes education) 2 Under review

RSE API's - swagger or yaml file

Hello, Would it be possible to have the swagger or a yaml file available? This would facilitate the integration of calls to these APIs in external software capable of scripting and automating certain tasks.
25 days ago in IBM i / Web Serving 0 Submitted

Audit which CL commands was executed using the QCMDEXC Procedure or scalar function.

Today if you execute a CL command inside of a QCMDEXC scalar function or QCMDEXC procedure, they are not audited. It would be extreamly helpful especially from a security perspective to be able to audit the commands that are executed that way.
3 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 0 Submitted

Allow custom commands to run in IWS

when creating an end point, we have the option to list the libraries where the api exists and thus, it also effects the library list that the job will run under. It would be nice to be able to run custom CL commands in that area to be executed whe...
3 days ago in IBM i / Web Serving 1 Future consideration

IWS Swagger page

We need a swagger page that we can test any of the endpoints we create in IWS. This would work like other API webtools that automatically create the swagger page that you can test the endpoints with.
3 days ago in IBM i / Web Serving 1 Future consideration

Enable options(*exact) for indicators.

I am the developer of RPGUNIT and recently I added procedure assertEqual() to it. This procedure handles all data types, because it uses the OVERLOAD keyword for delegating the call to the procedure that is in charge for the data type. dcl-pr asse...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 2 Under review

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