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Enable possibility to remove servers no longer in CMC concept.

When using the CMC Portal you get distracted, having information of servers, no longer in use. There is also subscription warning messages turning up. It.s annoying, we use cmc portal daily using Capcity Monitoring, Enterprise Pools2.0, Inventory ...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Management Console 1 Under review

Possibility to 'quiesce' (or 'unmanage') entire VMRM cluster during SW upgrades

Under 'Description' write the details of your new idea: On a 'HA' cluster with 2 Hosts we had to upgrade the HMCs from v9 to v10, during the upgrade the KSYS logged the event HMC_UNREACHABLE even though it's expected that the HMC may not be Fully ...
over 2 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 1 Planned for future release

%Split should allow array index

Currently %Split returns an array, but it would be nice if it would allow a single index of the array to be returned directly by coding for example mystring = %Split(string: ':')(1); This avoids using a work array.
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 3 Not under consideration

eval-corr using a record format from a file

Many times I need to move the contents of the fields in a record into a data structure or vice versa. because that very often the fields from the file are defined in other data structures or referred to in the program it is not possible to use PRE...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 4 Not under consideration

Add SIEM support to PowerVC GUI

We run PowerVC in an environment where security is key. To facilitate this, we are running a SIEM appliance; this is a central monitoring device, setup to receive information from all kinds of systems, to collect security-relevant data. Reports fr...
over 3 years ago in PowerVC 0 Future consideration

Trying to store in a file and print Subscript on AS400

We are developing a new coal system for an existing client. We need to be to add different chemical make ups to print on certificates they that will supply their customers. For example H20 for water, the 2 is slightly under the rest. I thought the...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / Print 3 Not under consideration

Better Locale support in the HMC GUI

The locale support seems to have little impact in the GUI. Changing the default en_US.UTF-8 American English(UTF-8) to en_GB.UTF-8 British English(UTF-8) seemingly doesn't change anything. The date format on the task list is still MM-DD-YY rather ...
over 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

Add the DETAILED_INFO paramater to the OBJECT_STATISTICS Table Function

The OBJECT_STATISTICS UDTF in QSYS2 is getting better all the time. However the *ALLSIMPLE concept that was later added to other UDTFs via their DETAILED_INFO parameter would benefit OBJECT_STATISTICS as well. Originally the Object Name could cont...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Not under consideration

Improved Support in RDi for C compiler

Improve the C compiler support in RDi. We get none of the options built in for RPG/RPG free so purchasing the product is not financially viable. I get all of the features offered in WSDc that I get in RDi and it was part of the WDS package. Use Ca...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Not under consideration

SNDSMTPEMM Reply-To

I have read that IBM don't want to make it able to change the sender. But could IBM add a parameter for setting the Reply-To header in the command SNDSMTPEMM. Use Case: Sending with a dummy user with e-mail "don't reply " but provide a respond ema...
about 7 years ago in IBM i / Networking 5 Not under consideration

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