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User friendly logging of any change activity on HMC for LPAR and Power Server itself

Would like to have a recording of activities like change,add,remove things for LPAR and/or Power Server in the HMC. The task window is not enough and shows only minimal change information.
over 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

lvmstat that can gather MWC stats

We need a custom lvmstat that can gather MWC stats, that would would work like this: To enable mwcc stats: lvmstat -v <vgname> -me To disable mwcc stats: lvmstat -v <vgname> -md To clear mwcc stats: lvmstat -v <vgname> -mC To que...
over 1 year ago in AIX 0 Planned for future release

chg sql to calculate in the right way

Sql calculate with the smalest decimalcalculate (in a Programm or in STRSQL)select Sum(1,25), sum(1,25/100)*19 from unique-file where unique-key in(a, b) --> 2 recordShow: 2,50 0,38 and that is wrong.of course if i think of it, ich can calculat...
26 days ago in IBM i / Languages - Other 0 Submitted

New op-code RCV-MSG or enhancement of ON-EXCP/ON-EXIT

When sending an escape message with SND-MSG it is easy to catch that exception with MONITOR and ON-EXCP. But to receive the message (especially the message data), remove the message from the job log or re-send the message up the call stack, we sti...
11 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 2 Not under consideration

BRMS ICC backup to AWS Cloud only allows US East region for storing data

Please see PMR Case number TS016529098. We are looking to use BRMS to send backup data to an S3 bucket at AWS. By default it is directing to AWS US East region and we are told there is no option to send data to another region. We faced issues with...
6 months ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 1 Submitted

Other implementation of IBM HMC grafical vterm needed because Java webstart is deprecated

The graphical implementation of the HMC vterm requires Java webstart (*.jnlp). Java webstart is deprecated by current releases of OpenJDK en Oracle Java, IBM should use a different implementation for the graphical vterm of the HMC, based on common...
about 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

Provide a way to display the current smbc reauthentication timer value for a share

EMC servers don't accept asynchronous authentication data (in other words, a Session Setup Request with new credentials sent on an already established session). They return an error, interrupting service. Since reauthentication can't be disabled i...
about 2 months ago in AIX 0 Submitted

Add a search zone in the ACS Session Manager

In the IBM ACS session manager, would it be possible to add a search box where you could enter the first few letters of the session name and only sessions starting with these letters would be displayed in the session list? Thank you
about 2 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

Allow to define a data structure based on a SQL table function

When declaring a data structure, allow using the keyword extname to read the fields defined in the RETURNS TABLE block of an UDF. dcl-ds genericDsTemplate extname('MYLIB/MY_SQL_TF':*output) qualified template alias end-ds; That would guaranty a 10...
7 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 2 Under review

OpenID-Connect integration with IBM HTTP server for i

Add OpenID-Connect to the existing authentication methods that are supported by the IBM HTTP server for i.
9 months ago in IBM i / Web Serving 1 Submitted

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