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Shutdown BIF, similar as SHTDN in RPG

Add a BIF for Shutdown as in RPG. Benefitter would be CL-coder, not having to call a RPG procedure to do the check if job/subsystem/system are going down.
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Languages - CL (Control Language) 2 Not under consideration

Manage LSS ID on DS8K storage template from GUI

Enterprise customers using DS8K storage, have requirement to specify the LSS ID while creating Volumes. Currently Managing LSS ID is not possible through GUI. This creates lot of complexity in management, when customer has to manage very high numb...
over 1 year ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

JDK 11 fails to run single file classes without compiling

A feature of JDK11 allows the user to run single .java source files without the need for compilation. This can be useful when making changes and testing without the need to compile it first. https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/330 On the IBM i currently...
about 3 years ago in IBM i / JAVA 1 Planned for future release

Bookmarks in SQL script runner

Add a bookmark management (folders, sub-folders and SQL scripts) in the ACS SQL windows Use Case: To be able to memorize bookmarks to SQL scripts
about 3 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Not under consideration

Enable use of R from Jupyter Notebook in IBM i

In order to boost the use of R in IBM i it will be very useful to have the option to run it in Jupyter Notebook. As I understand that means to port IRkernel to IBM i. Use Case: Build R reports in IBM i.
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 0 Not under consideration

Add the full man page for ksh93

As for now man ksh93 gives just a 1/3 of the original ksh93 manual page. You can compare it to https://linux.die.net/man/1/ksh93 (copy of the original man page from AT&T site) or to https://github.com/att/ast/blob/master/src/cmd/ksh93/sh.1.
over 2 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

IBM Cloud : Cybernetics VTL’s vs FalconStor for Backup

Feedback from Business partners on PowerVS environments == It would be good for IBM cloud to look at the Cybernetics VTL’s vs FalconStor. We are implementing Cybernectics VTL’s in several of our larger customers with success. Our customers and our...
8 months ago in Power Ecosystem Software / All components 4 Under review

SQL check authority enhancement to understand level of authority

QSYS2.SQL_CHECK_Authority function in SYSTOOLS, is available to retrieve whether the current user is authorized to an object. This is good as returns 1 if authorized. However, if the business needs to know, for a file object whether user can view ...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Future consideration

PowerVC support for VIOS optical libraries

RFE for getting PowerVC to support VIOS optical library usage for VMs (e.g VM deployed with permanent vSCSI adapter/connection with VIOS vopt library.)
about 3 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

LDAP nested groups won't resolve if located in a different DN than the parent group

Currently, secldapclntd cannot resolve a nested group if this 'child group' is in a different DN than it's parent group, even if the DN is specified in ldap.cfg as a secondary groupbasedn. This was discussed with AIX development via an APAR draft,...
over 2 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

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