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Scot Stansell

When Critical, Warning and Maintenance counts are displayed, the event details can be displayed by hovering the mouse over them. With an event for each count, the dashboard will be more useful. All counts should have a corresponding hover detail.
about 2 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 0 Planned for future release

Application for i Access - Client Solutions

Is IBM creating a application to change the Java Based app for i Access - Client Solutions? Use Case: Used for Windows connection to IBM i.
over 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 5 Not under consideration

HMC Enhanced Interface, Allow DLPAR of resource that is owned by another LPAR where that LPAR is not active

In the Enhanced HMC Interface, you cannot add an adaptor that is owned by another LPAR, even when that LPAR is not activated. This is possible in both Classic and Command-Line Interfaces. This is particularly important when sharing SAS or Fibre ad...
over 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 4 Future consideration

Exclude TEMPLATE type fields from content assist in calculation specs

Since template fields cannot be used in calculation specs, it would be helpful if they didn't show up in the list of fields to choose from. Use Case: Content assist field selection.
almost 9 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Not under consideration

Retrieve environment variables from another job

From one job to be able to retrieve environmentvariables from another job. A specified variable or a list of all variables and there values. Use Case: Environment variables holds important information about a job. You can retrieve almost everythin...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 3 Not under consideration

OpenSSH reporting non-compliant verison for PCI

We currently run the OpenSSH Server and Client on our IBM i which is on V7R1. We have been informed by our outside scanning PCI compliance vendor that we have critical security vulnerabilities on the IBM i due to the fact OpenSSH is reporting the ...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 2 Not under consideration

SQL - parse char string using external definition

Many times, in existing customers ERPs, there are fields where structured information is stored in a single big CHAR string. Usually the intent is to have a generic data carrying field in the same table, where the type of information is stored in ...
about 1 year ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Not under consideration

Customize PowerVC Logo in UI

Wish to have the ability to customize the PowerVC logo in the upper left of the UI.
over 3 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Declare Array variables in SQL/PSM like in DB2 LUW

In stored procedures and UDF/UDTF of DB2 for i, I would like to be able to declare an array like in this example : DECLARE TYPE CARD_NUMBER AS VARCHAR(1) ARRAY [24]; … this is already possible on DB2 LUW, as can be seen in this example: https://ro...
about 2 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Not under consideration

PyPowerVM should have a Remove License Key API

PyPowerVM does not have functionality to remove licenses via Novalink.
over 3 years ago in PowerVM NovaLink 2 Future consideration

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