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add cli/REST path/command to allow a) creation of tag b) removal of tag against resource and c) querying of resources tags (which tags are assigned) - perhaps field in lssyscfg

HMC GUI 10 provides 'tags' to allow functional grouping of systems and instance/lpars however these are not exposed as query able through REST or cli commands to allow management tools to make decisions / use the same tags
over 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

RSS - Reopen tabs automatically

With the new IBM i ACS 1.1.9.6 a possibility was introduced to open multiple tabs at once via projects however this was not the idea behind my previous idea https://ibm-power-systems.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/IBMI-I-3540 I'm therefore so free to request...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

DUPTAP performance should be improved

We recently found out, that DUPTAP has an expected behaviour that it takes twice as long as the SAVE-process. If the save-process exceeds 8 hours than one day (i.e. 24hrs) will not be enough to create a duplicate of the tape which is a requirement...
2 months ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 0 Submitted

HMC nmon

HMC nmon implementation or enhancement of monhmc
over 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

Call Home test for vHMC

At the moment there is no way to check, if vHMC Call Home configuration is working properly.As verified by IBM Support Case neither "Test connection" during configuration wizard nor "Creating a serviceable event" with checked flag "Test problem re...
over 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

Include an "assigned" flag to DCM API to indicate if cert is assigned to an DCM application or not

There is an API that already exists that allows certificates stored in a DCM store be read and would include expiry date, which is useful. I am not sure what the API is called, but I know that TAATOOL provides a command (CVTCERT) that uses the IBM...
4 months ago in IBM i / Security 5 Under review

Full support of Field Reference File (FRF) in SQL

When creating tables via SQL it is not possible to use the concept of a FRF to define fields in a consistent way and especially query the catalogs later on to find the origin of a field. A workaround is a CREATE TABLE AS however this doesn't suppo...
5 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Not under consideration

Basic subfile/maintenance generator for a given table_schema, and table_name

We have UPDDTA to edit individual records of a file. We have RUNQRY for displaying all file records. It would save a lot of development time when we can have a default built-in subfile handler for any given table. => Shift F8, F9 to move subfil...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Application Development 0 Submitted

SQL Scalar function to check access to an IFS file or folder

IFS_ACCESS - SQL Scalar function to check access to an IFS file or folder It returns: 0=If the file or folder Exists and you have access -1=No access or file does not exists use case: -- returns 0 for the home folder - it exists values IFS_ACCESS ...
5 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Future consideration

High priority login shell during low memory conditions

Over the years AIX has become very stable, but occasionally there's an AIX system that seems to hang when experiencing low memory/paging conditions. On the system some processes (that don't need to allocate new memory) continue to work happily, pi...
7 months ago in AIX 0 Future consideration