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Enable Shared Processor Pool within PEP 2.0

In the current implementation of PEP 2.0, the processor resources available in operation are composed of the respective Base Activations per machine and the additional credits. The limit of the usable resources corresponds to the total installed p...
over 2 years ago in PowerVM 1 Not under consideration

Add Command and Package Definitions to the new Navigator for i (iACS)

After migrating to the newer IBM i ACS environment, Management Central system function is missing from IBM Navigator for i!!! The Management Central of old Client Access iNavigator, provided the ability to simultaneously perform systems management...
about 1 year ago in IBM i / System Management 3 Future consideration

HMC GUI > Implement a "button" for opening an IBM HW/SW Support Case that automatically pulls in data (S/N, OS Level etc.) from an LPAR or Managed System

This is a request for enhancing the functionality of the HMC GUI with: A button / or menu that enables the user to open an IBM Support case directly and easily from the HMC GUI By selecting the affected LPAR / VM or Manages System Base data needed...
about 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Planned for future release

API or DB2 SQL Service to return the OVRDBF information for a JOB

It would be nice to have either a DB2 SQL Service or API that would return the information from DSPOVR. Currently the only way I know to do this at least for the current job is to do a DSPOVR *PRINT or DSPJOB *PRINT and read through the spool file...
8 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 4 Future consideration

Add the description of the PTF is the summary of PTF groups, cumulative, etc...

When you are about to install a PTF group is nice to check which are the PTFs it includes, especially if you want to solve a certain problem. Also is good to check between 2 different groups to check why something works with one group PTF and not ...
about 1 year ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 0 Under review

Instantaneous consumption of IBM Power servers

With the great challenges of energy reduction that we will have to face and in the perspective of "greenIT", it would be interesting to me to be able to know the instantaneous consumption of the Power (and others) infrastructure . As requested by ...
over 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Future consideration

Rsyslog with omkafka module and libsasl/GSSAPI support

Hello, I request the compilation of AIX rsyslog with the omkafka module and libsasl/GSSAPI support. We are encountering the following error in our environment: 7216.011687000:main Q:Reg/w0 : errmsg.c: Called LogMsg, msg: omkafka: error cr...
6 months ago in AIX 0 Planned for future release

Add an option for an SSL trusted store in odbc.ini for use with the IBM i Access ODBC Driver

We have an issue using SSL with the IBM i Access ODBC driver and IBM App Connect Enterprise 12. You can read about it in case: TS015080103 and TS014801648. We want to use an option to add the CA certificates to the data source in odbc.ini, somethi...
9 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 8 Future consideration

Support the new BOOLEAN SQL data type in ACS Data Transfer (Upload to IBM i)

Currently, data transfer (upload) fails if any field in the table is of type BOOLEAN.
8 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Future consideration

Modernizing IBM SEA to handle Cisco micro-segmentation policy

CISCO ACI in conjunctions with VMWARE have developed the ability to apply multiple Private VLAN configurations (micro-segmentation) onto a single switchport. Normal Private VLAN implementations require the creation of the Primary VLAN (200) which ...
9 months ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Submitted

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