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Enhance GUI "view details" information

The "view details" button available in the "Events" window should show useful information or better point to the real problem rather than provide generic information.
over 2 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 0 Future consideration

Clearer error message when not enough resources at remote site

Make the resulting error clearer about not having sufficient resources at the remote site to host all the local VMs.
over 2 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 0 Planned for future release

possibility to specify what decimal character %char() should use

I'm missing the possibility to specify what decimal character should be used in %char() overriding the control specification DECEDIT keyword. The standard european character is comma instead of point. But sometimes when generating CSV or XML files...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 2 Future consideration

Allow variables defined with like(...) to be used as embedded SQL host variables

Variables defined with like(...) should be usable as embedded SQL host variables. Allowing only variables defined with a specific datatype makes for more difficult application maintenance.
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Not under consideration

BMC inband local ID. User needs locked down

For 7063-CR2 HMCs, there requires a HMC-to-BMC Inband Communications Credentials to allow for periodic monitoring of hardware problem events and other management console functions .This is local user. By default, root account is used for this purp...
over 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

Consolided Capacity monitoring view

In Capacity Monitoring/Performances page, CPU installed, Available, Allocated, Actived can only be shown in each Power view not in the main page (only core usage and cores available). To have a consolided view (with csv export) could be usefull fo...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Management Console 0 Submitted

Allow optional input parameters in IWS / Websphere Service

Allowing optional input parameters on IWS / Websphere services would prevent requiring consumers of the APIs to pass in variables that are not being used. This would make the request look better and reduce bandwidth.
about 2 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 2 Functionality already exists

AIX SUMA to download sha checksum information for each file

When downloading files via SUMA, it would be extremely useful to also download a checksum file (such as dlmgr.pro when using the download director applet), in order that one can be confident in the integrity of the downloaded file. The ability to ...
about 6 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

Document the journal entries for create table and alter table "D CT" and "D CG"

In: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.4?topic=information-layouts-variable-length-portion-journal-entries#rzakivarlength__TBLOBJLVL Section: "Object level (D AC, D CG, D CT, D DC, D DT, D GC, D GO, D GT, D M1, D M2, D M3, D P1, D P2, D P3, D RV, D T...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Documentation 2 Not under consideration

PowerVC - editing VM?s properties

Editing VM properties.To reflect the Connectivity Group and Image source.
almost 7 years ago in PowerVC 2 Future consideration