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247 VOTE

Machine pool minimum size setting for path switch.

Please refer to TS005543906(CritSit(MEC)) . The system is configured with multi-path storage via SAN switch. The serious problem (5250 telnet terminals dropped) happened when the system did path switch. It was because the lack of machine pool and ...
9 months ago in IBM i / Storage 4 Not under consideration

go directly in Virtual Fibre Channel instead of Virtual SCSI tab when going on LPAR Virtual Storage

When clicking on the LPAR, then virtual storage, the first tab virtual scsi is automatically selected. In the majority of cases, we would rather use virtual storage channel tab first. Can you change default to be virtual storage channel? or create...
7 days ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

provide QSYSINC RPG includes in full free format

Today, we have QSYSINC RPG includes members in fixed format. More and more applications are nowadays written using full free format. Even IBM has a strong focus on using this format. Therefore, it would be consistent to have QSYSINC RPG includes m...
9 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 1 Submitted

Extend possible NIM resource types or attributes for optional backupios_flags to backup VIOS

In a NIM environment to backup VIOS type ios_mksysb the functionality to create nim_resource.tar file is missing.Solution to reinstall a corrupted system from HMC by using the installios command created from NIM environment.
26 days ago in AIX 0 Under review

Create a system command to convert JSON files to physical files (PF) and vice versa

IBM i increasingly interacts with external systems through APIs and JSON data. Developers often need to manually parse JSON into SQL tables using complex JSON_TABLE queries, or conversely serialize DB2 data into JSON for outbound APIs. My idea is ...
8 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Functionality already exists

All **FREE to be the first non-blank line in source code instead of strictly the first line

When I code, I always leave the top line blank for various reasons. Also many developers do the same. Some reasons include that RDi doesn't let you insert a line before line 1 (try it, it doesn't) but that's minor. For the most part, I want the co...
9 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 0 Submitted

support backing up(backupios command) of VIOS to USB memory stick

The backupios command manual states that only tape and cd are supported. At least there is no mention of USB memory sticks. In many cases, there is a desire to back up the VIOS onto a USB memory stick. Considering the operational convenience, the ...
3 months ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Submitted

Advanced Job Scheduler - Increase job group size from 99 to 999 (# of jobs included in a group) (or at least more than 100)

We currently use a non-IBM job scheduler that frequently has over 100 jobs in the job grouping. We would like to use AJS to replace this product, but one of the limiting factors is only 99 jobs are allowed in a group.
7 days ago in IBM i / System Management 0 Submitted

HANIM extend takeover resource types i.e. vios

In a HANIM environment the takeover functionality is limited to resource type standalone i.e. classic AIX client.
28 days ago in AIX 0 Under review
134 VOTE

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 ...
about 1 year ago in Linux for Power / RHEL OpenShift (5639-OCP) 8 Future consideration

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