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Remove guest user from the default installation

Move the historical "guest" user out of the base installation and into it's own LPP (bos.guest)
over 3 years ago in AIX 1 Future consideration

Simplify HMC update

Please make HMC update similar to Firmware update.Ability to download directly from IBM/local and update to the latest in same level or upgrade to next level.something simple like chrome browser update.
almost 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

Lock CMNxx from having multiple IPs assigned

We have a customer system that we will be hosting at our data center and we would like to be able to block the CMN03 port which is used as the a LAN Console port from being changed to allow anything else to use it.
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Networking 3 Future consideration

nimadm upgrade with cachefs fails to install efix because it can't expand a filesystem. While installp can expand a filesystem. It would improve the upgrade proccess if emgr could do the same.

Because of the issue with emgr it is neccessary after the upgrade to boot a lpar from from altinst_rootvg and then install the missing efix, so applications cannot start.Without the limitation the lpar would be started with all the fixes and it wo...
almost 2 years ago in AIX 0 Planned for future release

Need SQL Procedures to allow the ownership to be changed and to allow the use of adopted authority

We would like to have an SQL statement way of changing the ownership of a stored procedure. The TRANSFER OWNERSHIP SQL statement does not support stored procedures.In addition, there needs to be a SQL statement way of allowing a stored procedure t...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Future consideration

XSLTRANSFORM should support newer XSLT version

Using XSLTRANSFORM and it's excellent but...It supports XALAN 1.1. XSLT that is very limited and old.The transformations would be so much easier to create if at least XALAN 2.x will be supported.Today I have to make workarounds in mapping to archi...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 4 Not under consideration

PowerVC should support use of IPG for accessing Tape/VTL devices in a multi fabric environment (more than 2)

It is widely accepted that mixing of tape and disk via same FC/vFC adapaters is not recommended. Current IPG implementation only supports Tape without using IPG. It will be very useful for to provide IPG support for Tape and preferrably on separat...
over 1 year ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Add a new device web

It will be great to replace the workstation green screen with a device in a web navegator. Instead of DDS it can use an "HTML mask".
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 1 Not under consideration

Add checkbox for "replace" when saving newly updated example

if I update an "example" i previously created, I cannot save as a new example since it already exists. A replace check box would allow us to save an updated copy. i currently have to use <file><open> the example and then edit and resav...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Future consideration

Allow for MONMSG MSGID(*ALL)

It is not possible to create a program that monitors for all messages. Examples of CL programs that want to do this are Unit Testing Frameworks, Event Dispatching frameworks, etc.. Often it is not possible to know what messages return from a comma...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Languages - CL (Control Language) 3 Future consideration

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