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PowerVC : Add support for discovery of KVM deployed VMs when adding host

PowerVC KVM host support is greenfield only, Customers may have existing KVM VMs deployed or may need to recovery a KVM host that had a spectrum scale cluster failure. without option to add a KVM and discover existing VMs, product is limited
almost 6 years ago in PowerVC 1 Not under consideration

Add FOR COLUMN or FOR SYSTEM NAME to Function Return Column Definitions

For User-defined SQL Function, today we can define returned column name using up to 128 characters. There currently (as far as I know) is no way to also assign a shorter, more memorable "System Column Name" to the returned parameter. For example:...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Future consideration

ACS Emulator support for Unicode is UCS-2 (13448) only, please include support surrogates (more than 2 byets over 2xxxx)

According to our development ACS Emulator support for Unicode is UCS-2(13488) only, that is Basic Multilingual Plan (BMP), and does NOT includesupport for surrogates. Both UCS-2 (13488) and UTF-16 (1200) are composed of 2 bytes only.So 2XXXX is no...
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

Allow Ability to Mass Unassign Certificates from a Service

In IBMi Digital Certificate Manager (DCM) you can assign a certificate to multiple Services in a single screen. If you need to remove the certificate assignment you have to go into each service and remove the certificate. For some certificates, th...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Security 2 Not under consideration

Update cascade on constraints

Update cascade is allowed in other databases but, is restricted in DB2 for i, as more developers are modernizing their tables and are using constraints, referential integrity etc. This is going to be needed more and more.
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Future consideration

Allow selection of multiple items in screen designer

In CODE/Designer you can lasso many items on the panel you are designing and do things with them, like move, duplicate, DELETE or change a COLOR ATTRIBUTE. Use Case: Use CODE/Designer and attempt to lasso many items and then delete or change the c...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Not under consideration

Service Program re-bind to open files in DFTACTGRP

If a Service Program procedure opens a file in the Default Activation Group and it's later closed with RCLRSC from a calling program, the service program isn't made aware of this and it still has a reference to the "now unknown" space. When it tri...
about 5 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 3 Not under consideration

Internal LTO Tape for Power9

In the new generation of POWER9 hardware, there is an internal RDX device. While the RDX is a lower cost device, it is extremely slow. Why in the same location, can't an Internal LTOx tape drive be put in. Similar to a 5736 that was put into the P...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / Hardware 1 Not under consideration

Native video card, mouse and keyboard support

similar to AIX under IBMi this feature will add to having a physical master console not affected by network or configuration issues
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Hardware 2 Not under consideration

Journal entry needed when statistics removed from file

During upgrade from 7.2 to 7.3 we got serious performance degradation for some SQL queries. Trying to improve performance we request and remove some file statistics on the source (production) system. It help for some issues. Unfortunately on the t...
about 5 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Not under consideration

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