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trustchk error message issued druiing bosboot after changing powerHA syncd value

On AIX 7.2.4.2 and powerHA 7.2.3.3 we receive a trustchk error message when performing bosboot after changing the synd value from the default value of 60 to 10.
about 4 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 4 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

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

Relax or remove the TABLE() Requirement for UDTF

When using SQL Table Functions the use of the TABLE() wrapper is burdensome. It also adds to resistance of user-buy-in of using things like ACS Run SQL Scripts or SQL in general. The sad truth is that unlike the 1970s/1980s and earlier when most h...
about 3 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Not under consideration

Add TCP/IP route to administrative domain

Hi, is it possibile to add TCP/IP routes in a administrative domain as a monitored resources.
about 1 year ago in IBM i / PowerHA 1 Not under consideration

Enable SSO for DCM

DCM kind of supports Single Sign on but after setting AuthType to KerberosOrBasic in admin-ibm.conf the Sign in window still appear. Clicking Cancel once or twice solves the problem but the window should not be there in the first place. Use Case: ...
about 5 years ago in IBM i / Security 3 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

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

verify upgrade or downgrade for Firmware levels?

maybe ticket, maybe function?When you use update, change LIC to a newer release and retrieve from IBM service web site, the selector shows only old LIC versions. Is this meant to allow a downgrade, is this an error, or just a weird method of telli...
about 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 5 Planned for future release

add support for additional DB drivers

we would like to have support for additional db drives in "run SQL scripts" module of IBM i Client Access solutionsthe support could be added by either referring to system installed DB drivers (like the old method used in IBM i Access for Windows ...
about 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

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