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    New QSYS2 Table function : QSYS2.WRITER_INFO

    Hello, I wanted to retrieve the list of all the writers present on my client's machine.I tried with the SQL table : QSYS2.OBJECT_STATISTICS.SELECT * FROM TABLE (QSYS2.OBJECT_STATISTICS('*ALL ','*DEVD')) WHERE OBJATTRIBUTE in ('PRTLAN','PRTVRT','PR...
    5 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Future consideration

    Support Hybrid Network Virtualisation (HNV) on PowerVC

    When adding a new Network we would like to have the option besides SEA and vNIC to also have the possiblity to select a HNV network device. Adding this "Migratable SRIOV" adapter is already supported by HMC since some time, but there is no Support...
    10 months ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    Add issuer certificate serial number in qsys2.certificate_info and QycuRetrieveCertificateInfo API

    In the DCM GUI, the hierarchy view provides the certification chain: the authority (one or more) + the client/server certificate. However, there is no solution for finding this link using code: The qsys2.certificate_info SQL service and the QycuRe...
    5 months ago in IBM i / Security 1 Future consideration

    Remove permissions from catalog files

    Here is a reproducible example Signon on QSECOFR or a profil with *secadm create a table CREATE TABLE LIB.CLIENTBQ ( NUMERO DEC ( 5) NOT NULL WITH DEFAULT, NOM CHAR ( 20) NOT NULL WITH DEFAULT, IBAN CHAR ( 14) NOT NULL WITH DEFAULT) remove public ...
    6 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Future consideration

    Setting SVC Site attribute for VMs dependant on PowerVC Host Site

    We are using a SVC stretched cluster between two datacenters with one storage pool per datacenter in the SVC backend as our main storage in PowerVC. Dependant of the datacenter location of a VM we assign storage via "Storage Template" from the sam...
    7 months ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    Enhance the SNMP or PJL driver to allow drawer control for PDF files

    Enhance the SNMP and/or PJL driver to allow the inclusion of PJL drawer commands to allow PDF files to print to specific drawers. Currently IBM i does not support PCL6, and that, combined with the ease of using color with PDF files, has meant that...
    2 months ago in IBM i / Print 1 Future consideration

    PowerVC 2.1.1.2 6-mounth history in Resource Assigment data

    Hello, in the context of a Project we would like to be able to have a 6-month history of the resource assignment data. I 've upload a file with an image of the section for which resources usage would be required. Thanks in advance for your collabo...
    12 months ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    OVERRIDE_INFO for any job

    At present OVERRIDE_INFO will only return results for the current job. Please allow it to return the same information for any job passed to it. It could be a Table function of the current view. Pass to it a fully qualified job name, or '*' for the...
    4 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Future consideration

    Support for changing the name of a storage pool without impacting powervc

    Adding the ability to change the name of a storage pool without impacting PowerVC would simplify storage management. Currently, if a storage pool's name is changed directly on the storage array (an "out-of-band" change), PowerVC does not detect th...
    6 months ago in PowerVC 3 Future consideration
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    Dynamically editable min/max fields when LPAR gets shut down

    When you are on a partitions memory configuration section and the partition is running you can only change the allocated value and the min/max values are greyed out. When the partition is then shut down the min/max values should be editable but th...
    over 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Future consideration

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