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SQL view to see files used and settings on report written in Query 400

SQL view to see what files are used and what settings are used on a report written using Query 400. I realize DSPPGMREF can be used but this does not give all of the settings used in constructing the report such as the settings in the Select outpu...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Not under consideration

Please implement iSCSI initiator (client)

It would be nice to have support for placing iASPs onto iSCSI volumes hosted elsewhere. Use Case: This would help to put less often used objects on cheaper and slower storage for smaller shops who don't rely on VIOS but only on IBM i in a primary ...
about 4 years ago in IBM i / Storage 7 Not under consideration

User generated list of IP that the HMC will NOT use for RCM connections.

When an RCM connection is established to the PowerHA cluster service IP that moves from node to node, you can end up in a situation where you cannot dynamically increase CPU, and memory on a system. I would like to exclude PowerHA Service IPs from...
over 1 year ago in AIX 0 Planned for future release

Improve the lrud behavior when free the large amount of memory.

When lrud free the memory, it will enable the interrupt disabled mode and block other threads. When customer runs the time-sensitive applications, it might lead to an application time out and then the transaction failures.
over 1 year ago in AIX 0 Submitted

allow lower security for QSYS2.MTI_INTO() function

MTI_INFO allows DB Admins to gain information on temporary indexes. The user needs *JOBCTL or QIBM_DB_SQLADM authority. On larger Systems it is not easy to grant *JOBCTL or to maintain the SQLADM for all users. When *PGMR user tries to get informa...
about 2 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Future consideration

PowerVC Support for Ansible vnic network deployment

Hi The deployment of VM fails if SR-IOV only network are used in the os_server module in Ansible. Nova is logging it is unable to find a network. Please implement support for SR-IOV and vNics deployment and control.
about 4 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Power Enterprise Pools 2.0 - Metered Usage Enhancements

Power Enterprise Pools 2.0 resource sharing and metered usage is a step-change for Power Systems private cloud adoption. To improve it further, more granular control and visibility is required at the host partition level. I'd like to request an en...
over 3 years ago in Cloud Management Console 6 Not under consideration

Add ability for Comment/Uncomment to work with SQL Scripts

When editing SQL scripts it would be super if Comment (ctrl+/) & Uncomment (cntl+\) worked as it does with RPG. Use Case: Given any block of code like: create or replace view V1asselect T1.C1 ,T1.C2 ,T2.C3from T1 left outer join T2 on T1.C1=T2...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Future consideration

Command to work with entries in /etc/filesystems

In AIX there are a lot of small nice commands to make changes to /etc/hosts, /etc/resolv.conf, /etc/security/user, /etc/inittab, etc. but there are no commands to add/change/remove entries in /etc/filesystems without changing logical volumes. It w...
over 5 years ago in AIX 3 Not under consideration

include SAMBA support in RPMs (moving from PTF support)

the current support for SAMBA is provided by PTF. It would be beneficial if this support was moved to the new RPM OpenSource offering Use Case: easier adoption of SAMBA if we do not have to download A PTF then run an install or update script
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 1 Not under consideration

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