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PowerVC to provide recovery options for PowerVC novalink managed hots

PowerVC HMC managed PowerVM hosts in error state can be cleaned up using powervc commands Novalink managed hosts do not have similar options
almost 5 years ago in PowerVC 2 Future consideration

increase user space size

The maximum size of an user space object is 16, 776, 704 bytes. This is no longer sufficient. If a library contains more than about 25.000 objects I can not dump all object information (QUSROBJD using OBJD0300) into the user space. Please increase...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 5 Not under consideration

Support sudo ldap on AIX

sudo-ldap is supported. I see various clients using it. It is in AIX Tools website: http://www.aixtools.net/index.php/sudo-ldap Looks like IBM AIX officially does not support sudo-ldap. The naming service is coming from LDAP and authentication fro...
almost 5 years ago in AIX 3 Not under consideration

DB2 for i PTF services to use ESA configuration for internet access

SYSTOOLS.GROUP_PTF_CURRENCY and SYSTOOLS.GROUP_PTF_DETAILS are great tools to keep track of missing PTFs on a system. When running SQL statement against this view, there is an internet connection from the system to PSP documents. This is a direct ...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Future consideration

Column Heading for CPYTOIMPF

I had a client requesting an enhancement for column heading in cpyto/frmimpf. He wants to be able to import text or alias via the ADDCOLNAM parameter. He was expecting *SQL to give him the results but he was using a DDS file with text. He pointed ...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Not under consideration

CMC Complex Environment Capabilities

I have a partner asking some questions about the capabilities of the Cloud Management Console in a MSP environment for one of their clients. Is there an expert I can put him in contract with? See his descriptions of the environment and capabilitie...
almost 1 year ago in Cloud Management Console 0 Submitted

ACS Double byte character printing issue.

As users in our Asia Pacific locations are migrating from Client Access to ACS - they have noticed that when printing spool files from ACS (drag and drop - or downloading) some of the double byte characters are not showing up correctly. This reque...
about 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

PowerVC to allow deploying Boot Volume on distinct disk system than the image

PowerVC should allow deploying a Virtual Machine on a disk storage system distinct than the one where the image used for deploy resides on.Today, it works for all but the Boot Volume.There is no choice for Boot Volume of the deployed Virtual Machi...
about 7 years ago in PowerVC 0 Future consideration

AJS schedule jobs in different time zone

Add the ability to "5770JS1 IBM Advanced Job Scheduler for i" to schedule jobs in different time zones where DST is taken into consideration so that the job always starts at the correct time in the target time zone. Use Case: A customer has an LPA...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 1 Not under consideration

Suppress CPIB319 in QSECIDL processing

Can CPIB319 message "Profile already disabled" be made optional for QSECIDL processing? Use Case: We have some procedural hurdles to actually deleted profiles. We disable them regularly, though. When the QSECIDL jobs run checking for inactive prof...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / Security 3 Not under consideration

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