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Edit files in IFS using Navigator for i or ACS

After we installed the latest PTF's, the old Heritage IBM navigator for i has been disabled. Just about every week we EDIT a lot of files in the root file system and we used to be able to do this through the Heritage version. The only file system ...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / System Management 3 Future consideration

CMC - Thresholds for used % of the Enterprise Pools base capacity

Within the CMC Enterprise Pools App we are missing a configurable threshold for used % of the Enterprise Pools base capacity. Because the base capacity is already paid and we want to make sure, that we get informed if we getting close to use credi...
almost 4 years ago in Cloud Management Console 0 Future consideration

Add an attribute to *SRVPGM object types for SQL Global Variables

Currently, there is no extended attribute associated with SQL Global Variables for *SRVPGM object types. This poses a major challenge for change management software that utilize security templates to apply permissions and authorization lists to ob...
4 months ago in IBM i / Core OS 2 Under review

Improve HMC VIOS Maintenance option reliability

Sinve HMC V10 VIOS Maintenance option is supported but the serviceability and reliability need improvement: -Restoring operation after vios maintenance is trustless. (shared ethernet SEA state)-vNIC Auto Priority Failover -a.s.o.
5 months ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

Implementation of restore function that does not change the state of the access path

We would like you to implement the restore function that does not change the state of the access path by implicitly shared access paths. Our customers are having trouble getting their program to do something unexpected by save and restore. We wou...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 6 Not under consideration

Enable RPG compiler to take DSPF and PRTF definition from open format like XML/JSON

RPG is the main programming language used on the IBM i platform. It is well integrated with DB2, it is ILE, open with Open Access and has been modernized. It could be a first citizen language for cloud app but there is an obstacle to leveraging it...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 12 Not under consideration

While debugging in Visual Studio Code (SEP), able to mouseover an RPG variable starting with a special character

Currently, the mouseover only works for RPG program variables that do not start with a special character. It would be a great idea to add the same capability for RPG variables that start with a special character.
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Application Development 0 Submitted

Full support of Field Reference File (FRF) in SQL

When creating tables via SQL it is not possible to use the concept of a FRF to define fields in a consistent way and especially query the catalogs later on to find the origin of a field. A workaround is a CREATE TABLE AS however this doesn't suppo...
6 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Not under consideration

Provide mksysb image in ESS AIX Flash ISO Media

in a similar way that ESS VIOS Flash ISO Media does.
11 months ago in AIX 0 Planned for future release

add feature to predict if "verification + synchronisation" will bring resource group(s) down of not

When you make a change to the powerHA configuration on one node you have to run "Verify and Synchronize Cluster Configuration" to propagate the change to the other nodes. When you do that the smit panels will give you the following warning: "Depen...
10 months ago in PowerHA for AIX 0 Future consideration

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