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IBM PowerSC should provide an option to mark a failed compliance rule as exception in the GUI

The IBM PowerSC Compliance Automation feature allows users to run compliance check. Once the check is complete, the GUI shows the result and displays the failed rules. If at least 1 rule has failed then the compliance status of the LPAR is shown a...
6 months ago in PowerSC 2 Planned for future release

Add CPYJOBSCDE Command

we have work and add job scheduled entries but, can we also have a copy job scheduled entry? Sometimes you need to add a job scheduled entry and just change a script that is going to run. For example, First job scheduled entry SBMJOB CMD(QSYS/RUNS...
12 months ago in IBM i / Core OS 4 Future consideration

Add native 2FA and/or MFA for 5250 and other interfaces to data

Data security insurance and other requirements are requesting Two Factor Authentication or Multi Factor Authentication access to data.
12 months ago in IBM i / Security 2 Future consideration

vdisk_protection_enabled in IBM i PowerHA environments

This is the corresponding RFE to RFE number 141546 but for IBM i side.Spectrum Virtualize (be it flashsystems or SVC) introduced feature to restrict LUNS from being unmapped or deleted from storage when there was I/O in last XX minutes.This featur...
almost 3 years ago in IBM i / PowerHA 2 Future consideration

Add new parameter SAVDTA( *YES | *NO ) to the SAVLIB and SAVOBJ commands.

It would offer the ability to save a library (or object) without data so that a new instance of an application could be created starting with an empty database. Everything would be saved except the data. When the library is later restored tables a...
8 months ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 4 Future consideration

Allow data structures to be extended or decorated

RPG currently allows us to define a data structure with the same layout another with the LIKEDS keyword. It would be useful to be able to use a similar keyword to define the basic structure, but also to extend the data structure and add additional...
about 2 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 3 Future consideration

physical port on destination side for the migrating client LPAR

Physical port (FCS)on destination side for the migrating client LPAR can not see during the LPM on HMC GUI , so as mentioned the option is only available from HMC CLI with the command below: ~> migrlpar -o v -m <source_managed_system> -t ...
over 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

5733-ICC and BRMS - Use just one Image Catalog, instead of one per image

Sometimes BRMS maintenance can't remove old random tape image catalogs created when saving to the cloud, and we need to run the tool one more time or remove manually to fix the issue. If using just 1 image catalog (even with a fixed name) we can e...
29 days ago in IBM i / BRMS 2 Not under consideration

BRMS Web GUI interface needs to be made available for 5770BR1

Fortra has developed a web interface for BRMS replacing the old web navigator interface that was deprecated. This new interface is only available in the new software subscription for BRMS, 5770BR2 with PTFs SJ00271and SJ00272.Not every customer is...
5 months ago in IBM i / BRMS 3 Not under consideration

Getting the response as a stream from the HTTP functions in QSYS2

The HTTP functions wait until the entire response has been received before returning it. Returning the response as a stream, without waiting for it to be complete, it would result in better performance particularly with very large responses.
4 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Not under consideration

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