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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...
almost 3 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Future consideration

Provide info for current Power usage per Managed Frame with HMC cli command

Hi, for data collection / automation purposes it would be great to have current Power usage per Managed Frame available via HMC cli command like: Name=power-frame-d01, power_usage=859.556 watts Currently the data is available on HMC GUI & HMC ...
8 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

Add availability info (version/release/TR) to Info Center

Please add availability info to RPGLE BIFs, SQL functions/procedures, catalog views and IBM i services (like table functions, etc.). Some information like: Available since 7.3 TR 2 and 7.4 This would make it easy to check backward compatibility.
12 months ago in IBM i / Documentation 3 Submitted

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

ACS Run SQL script and prompting for statement variables. Support predefined and default values.

In ACS version 1.1.9.2 support for prompting statement variables with the use of ? or a variable name starting with : was introduced. Ref: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/ibm-i-75-tr2-enhancements This is great. Prompting for a statement v...
5 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Future consideration

Show HMC Firewall "Available applictions" in HMC CLI

I would like to see possibility to list all possible Applications that can be configured on HMC firewall, on HMC CLI in a similar way as they are shown in HMC GUI (see atttached screenshot) Currently lshmc --firewall gives list only for the rules ...
11 months ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

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

Much like WatsonX code assistant for Z, we are looking for similar capabilities for the I to modernized and even convert RPG code to other languages.

To speed development, and help modernize the look and feel of our software to better serve our customers.
about 2 months ago in IBM i / AI with IBM i 1 Submitted

Add a tree view option to the Systems page.

It would be useful to see which partitions were on which physical machine/serial number in one view. Older versions of the HMC had this view and it would be nice if V10 had it without having to switch to the old dashboard.
2 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

Enhancing network performance analysis on IBM i with iPerf Integration

iPerf (iPerf - The TCP, UDP and SCTP network bandwidth measurement tool) is a widely used command-line tool designed for measuring network performance by generating TCP and UDP traffic between two endpoints. It allows network administrators, engin...
5 months ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 0 Submitted

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