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Declare UTF-8 character lenght in SQL TABLE not in bytes

Currently, when I create a new table and declare a field, for example, of type CHAR(10) UTF-8, the system only allows for 10 characters if each character is 1 byte in size. If a character occupies 2 or more bytes, the field length is no longer suf...
17 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Submitted

Navigator For I GUI interface and Function Usage

New Navigator for i is not designed to hide those icons (see figure 1) The function Usage (figure 2) is the solution to restrict usage but some ID function no longer works : example product functions ==> QIBM_XD1_OPNAV I find it frustrating tha...
22 days ago in IBM i / System Management 1 Future consideration

UAK expiry - send an alert from the HMC before it expires

When a UAK expires it creates a lot of noise - the attention LED is lit against a managed system, a serviceable event is generated/sent and an alert sent to every LPAR on the managed system. Whilst I am aware that it is possible to automate the UA...
about 1 month ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Submitted

PowerVC add support for mkvolume in place of mkvdisk

mkvdisk does not fully support iogroup placement ibm.com mkvolume Use the mkvolume command to create an empty volume from existing storage pools. You can use this command for high availability configurations that include HyperSwap, but it can also...
about 1 month ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

Add Inherit Rules to IFS journalling

Today when you set up journalling for the IFS the STRJRN command allows you to filter the objects that are to be journalled, however this is a one off request and the inherit rules are not able to be set to allow future filtering of the objects jo...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 0 Submitted

Rsyslog with omkafka module and libsasl/GSSAPI support

Hello, I request the compilation of AIX rsyslog with the omkafka module and libsasl/GSSAPI support. We are encountering the following error in our environment: 7216.011687000:main Q:Reg/w0 : errmsg.c: Called LogMsg, msg: omkafka: error cr...
about 1 month ago in AIX 0 Submitted

alias be registerd in the niminfo file

To use IBM DB2, we need to configure the /etc/hosts file as follows:x.x.x.x nimmaster.ss.local nimmasterDue to this configuration, when registering the NIM client, it gets registered as nimmaster.ss.local instead of nimmaster, which results in the...
about 2 months ago in AIX 3 Under review

AIX community edition for QEMU/KVM

AIX will remain the leading UNIX operating system for mission-critical environments for many years to come. It has performance, security and ease of administration features that make it a very interesting option for new deployments complementing t...
6 months ago in AIX 1 Under review

Modify ulimit to display the lesser of nproc or maxuproc

As per this site https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/aix-ulimit-and-maxuproc ulimit was recently changed to display a more accurate value than "unlimited" when nproc is -1, and instead show the maxuproc that provides the real limit.This helps provid...
11 days ago in AIX 0 Submitted

EIM System User credential setup on the terminal screen.

EIM System User can be specified solely on the Navigator i GUI. This limitation makes impossible any automation to follow the security rules and change the password regularly according the security standards. Provide a command to change the passwo...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / System Management 0 Submitted