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Improve the Reconnect process for RDi

When working remotely for the past 2 years I connect to our corporate network via VPN prior to opening RDi. Everything works fine in RDi until my VPN connection drops. At this point RDi still shows as connected. When I reconnect the VPN and try to...
about 3 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Future consideration

Changing the SRIOV port label on an existing Network Template

Currently editing the SRIOV port label on existing network template is not possible, this is important for customers who are using SEA based hosts and are adding SRIOV based hosts to PowerVC. Even for the same network, customer's have to create ne...
over 1 year ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Option to only use one IPG per VM for all volumes, other than IPG for Tape

When multiple IPGs are specified in one Storage Connectivity Group, PowerVC uses multiple IPG for storage volume provisioning to a VM. This creates lot of VFC adapters/Zones/Storage Host Entries for each VM, creating lot of complexity in managemen...
over 1 year ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

GENERATED_SPREADSHEET with kerberos and password *NONE

In an evironments with kerberos and users with password *NONE the scalar funcion doesn't work (MSGSY0271), it would be great if this limitation didn`t exist.
5 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Future consideration

Change of name for ILE/RPG

Time to give ILE/RPG a new name that is better suited to its current form.Call it "RPG for i", matching "Db2 for i". Use Case: By giving the RPG product a new name will help us define the difference between modern free format RPG & the older f...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 8 Not under consideration

LPM should not switch to Default Processor Pool

During LPM via HMC-GUI (V10 R3 SP1051 / MF71688) the setting for processor pool switches back to the Default Processor Pool, if not explicitely changed by drop-down menu. Since Processor Pools are very important to us (licences) AND there's a veri...
10 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Planned for future release

For AJS, the notification message setting item cannot be set for double-byte characters.

This is an event when adding a job in AJS on the 5250 screen.The Notification Message item is set to type A, and double-byte characters cannot be set.Double-byte character input is important in Japanese environment. Please let us know how to solve...
10 months ago in IBM i / System Management 6 Not under consideration

Please, fix the VTL iSCSI doc - There is a Typo since 1st release

The document IBM i Support for iSCSI VTL 1.6 _3 at https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/system/files/inline-files/IBM%20i%20Support%20for%20iSCSI%20VTL%201.6%20_3.pdf has a type that creates some confusion. On page 12 talks about the command iscsiswi...
24 days ago in IBM i / Documentation 0 Submitted

Adding Okta Single Signon method

Add a feature to the authentication method in HMC to integrate with Okta
about 2 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

Addition of Input Modules and Message Modification Modules to AIX rsyslog

We request the compilation of AIX rsyslog with the mmnormalize, impstats, immark, mmcount and mmjsonparse modules. This is necessary for our production and homologation servers. https://www.rsyslog.com/normalizer-first-steps-for-mmnormalize/ Input...
4 months ago in AIX 0 Submitted

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