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Add support for HP 3PAR based replication

Like some other storage products HP 3PAR does offer a storage based data replication to a remote site.But the support for HP 3PAR is currently missing.
over 6 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Planned for future release

Add check for file size to the verification tool

The verification tool does not check if the file size of the files in the used File Collection is the same.A warning should be created if the verification tool detected a file size delta.
over 6 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Not under consideration

Need filesystem hang and mount status monitoring in PowerHA

We are using a lot of PowerHA product on many AIX servers. Also there are many kinds of other company's High Availability products such as Service Guard of HPE, Redhat cluster, MSCS of MS etc. In some other HA solutions, there is a function which ...
about 5 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 0 Planned for future release

In the LPEX editor, add an option to Copy/Move a selected block before the current line.

In the LPEX editor, add an option to copy or move a selected block before the current line. At present, the only option is to move the block to after the current line. If you are trying to move something to the top, you have to split the top line ...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Not under consideration

Provide additional attribute for Adding trigger to enable them either for Interactive session or batch session.

Please provide an option to select either for interactive session or batch session while adding triggers to database files. It would help in a big way to develop access log applications for GDPR. Use Case: With the GDPR implementation in Europe, i...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Not under consideration

Simple option to hide command special value

PARM of CMD has the option to specify special values.Those special values appear first in the list of the values in the CHOICE prompt.We would like to have the option to hide some or all special values from appearing in the CHOICE text. Use Case: ...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 1 Not under consideration

Multiple Shared Processor Pools for each Logical Partition

Shared Processor Pools are useful for limiting the total CPU usage of a group of partitions. Partitions can be grouped by type (production and test for example), by customer, or to take advantage of subcapacity licensing.Difficulties arise when a ...
almost 8 years ago in PowerVM 2 Not under consideration

Add AIX LVM functionality to IBM i for Load Source Migration with zero downtime

Add AIX LVM functionality to IBM i for Load Source Migration with zero downtime. Use Case: Minimize downtime when migrating storage with IBM i.
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Install and Upgrade and Licensing 7 Not under consideration

PowerVC support for CentOS

Currently PowerVC supports RHEL only. Can CentOS be added to the supported Operating System for the PowerVC Management Server? Another alternative could be Ubuntu.
over 6 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Self-closing tags in COBOL (IBMi)

Creating XML messages on COBOL using XML-GENERATE has limited option when compared to Z/OS COBOL. Getting around the requirement to build XML with self-closing tags is a tedious task. Would be helpful to have this option in native COBOL.
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Languages - Other 1 Future consideration

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