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Allow APYJRNCHG and RMVJRNCHG to use remote journal receivers

APYJRNCHG and RMVJRNCHG do not allow remote journal receivers to be used, however after saving the receivers and restoring them into the receiver library of the local journal, they can be used without a problem. This however needs manual steps and...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Not under consideration

Add start mirroring function to new Navigator

The original Navigator and 'old' Navigator for i had an option to start disk pool mirroring on a newly created ASP or IASP, avoiding partition downtime to start mirroring in Dedicated Service Tools. That function is not available in new Navigator....
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / System Management 2 Not under consideration

Set minimal amount of video memory in HMC installation ova file for VMware vSphere

The HMC's installation ova image for VMware does not set the minimal required memory for the video card. If the video card memory for the VM is less than 6 MB, you are unable to set the minimum required screen resolution on the VM system console. ...
over 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

Non-Displayable Characters in IBM Access Client Solutions

Using 5250 emulation, our programming team regularly has to display files with Non-Displayable characters for various types of fields. These always used to display as Blocks instead of ? characters in the V7R1 (and all other previous versions) of ...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Not under consideration

CBU keys generation

CBU. keys are not being generated automatically in the upgrade processs Use Case: When ordering an IBM i upgrade on the IBM ESS site, only part of the process is handled automatically. IBM i 5770SS1 keys are being generated automatically, but CBU ...
about 5 years ago in IBM i / Install and Upgrade and Licensing 4 Not under consideration

PowerVC - Migration Pop-up does not provide details explaining why a host(s) isn't available to migration

PowerVC provides the feature to allow a VM to migrate from current host to another host managed by PowerVC, When migrating the UI lists "available" host(s) to migrate the VM . The UI does not provide any details why a VM isn't available for migrat...
about 5 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

to allow SST function to reset Hardware Service Manager (HSM) use count if it is abandoned by someone else.

to allow SST function to reset Hardware Service Manager (HSM) use count if it is abandoned by someone else. Use Case: We had to IPL to recover from a locked SST session in order to be able to swicth over with PPRC. PMR 40611,000,871
about 5 years ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 2 Not under consideration

RDi CL formatting for declaring variables with defined storage

Add a preference to indent DCL statements for variables with STG(*DEFINED). Use Case: Declare an incoming parameter for a qualified object and then declare the object name and library. With the indentation it would look similar to the following: d...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Not under consideration

FSCK on a mounted filesystem

There should be an option to run an online fsck on a mounted filesystem to detect any filesystem corruption.
over 5 years ago in AIX 2 Future consideration

STRDBG should support showing variables for a selected recursive level

In ILE Cobol you can use the keyword "IS RECURSIVE" so that this program can be called recursively. To have own storage for each recursive call you can define these variables under "LOCAL-STORAGE SECTION". Currently the debugger (STRDBG) can only ...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Languages - Other 1 Future consideration

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