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Feature to add comments on maintenance mode , displayed in the hosts tab

We are many to work on PowerVC , including IBM workers who need to operate on hosts for upgrade purposes or replacing parts. Sometimes we need to act on hosts but we see that it is in maintenance, but we don't know who put it in this mode, or even...
about 6 years ago in PowerVC 2 Future consideration

Small Independent Disk Pools

The idea is to enable the configuration of small independent auxiliary storage pools from partial disk units on a single IBM i server. This idea appears to be similar to the ability to create micro partitions and host many IBM i instances on a sin...
about 7 years ago in IBM i / Storage 2 Not under consideration

Command-line program to expose perfstat_bridgedadapter stats

It would be nice if there was a command-line program that exposed the data from perfstat_bridgedadapter and annotated it with the vSwitch and VLAN(s) for the virtual side. it's not that hard except for the vSwitch/VLAN(s) where there isn't a docum...
about 3 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

allow user storage limit to be exceeded while saving journaled objects

Allow user storage limitations to be exceeded while saving journaled objects.Lets assume we have one or more users with limited storage MAXSTG(). This user owns a library and a journal. When saving objects in the library, journal entries Y/YS or D...
about 5 years ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 4 Not under consideration

Grey out Clone option when not supported by SAN backing device

Currently the Clone option of a deployed VM is only supported on VMs using specific SAN backends. It currently is not supported on our DS8000's. The option to Clone a VM should check the volumes first and if any are on a non-supported SAN the opti...
about 3 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Multiple tiers to be supported within shared storage pool

When starting to implement PowerVC and are using SSPs. In the PowerVC Env Checker, is seen the following errors for multiple SSP pools: Shared Storage Pool ValidationsCould not access the shared storage pool in cluster tier.HMC_CLUSTER_SSP_CONFIGU...
about 6 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

RDI Version: 9.6.0.11 20210819_0803 Valid json_table syntax in DDL gives error when creating SQL function

json_table syntax in DDL gives error when creating SQL functionRDI Version: 9.6.0.11 20210819_0803 for select productNo_json, wantedQuantity_json, wantedDate_json, availableQuantity_json, availableDate_json from json_table ( yxdb.call_service ( UR...
about 3 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Is a defect

Disabled the looging of negative sql codes in the JOBLOG of a JOB

In RGP developments embedding SQL when we encounter a Negative SQL code, even if it is managed in the program, it returns lines in the processing JOBLOG.So a log of several thousand lines is generated if the program returns a lot of negative SQL c...
about 7 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 5 Not under consideration

Change the Format of downloads on ESS website to ISO

The industry standard for DVDs is ISO and it would be easier to have the downloads in this format. Use Case: Standard windows software doesn't have the UDF format as a source and makes creating DVDs more difficult.
about 6 years ago in IBM i / Install and Upgrade and Licensing 5 Not under consideration

Allow reports to be sorted differently than the columns are displayed (ie. display = C1,C2,C3 sort order C3,C1,C2)

In DB2 Web Query the records are by default sorted by the order that the columns are displayed in the report without being able to change the sorting other that changing the order of the columns. There is the capability to "hide" columns to change...
about 8 years ago in IBM i / Db2 Web Query 5 Not under consideration

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