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Support For Pure Storage For HA + DR

Ford has switched to Pure Storage and would like to automate DR such that during a disaster, VMRM would be able to automatically change the replication and mounts such that Ford can failover to DR automatically.
over 1 year ago in VM Recovery Manager 1 Future consideration

Position line selected from COBOL outline more usefully

PMR (or SR) 36551,422,000 actually dealt with which editor view was positioned from a selection in the outline. This is a request to have the selected line appear at or toward the top of the editor window. Currently, the selected line (paragraph,s...
over 11 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 7 Not under consideration

loginherald script in AIXPERT does not accept customized herald message

AIXPERT subsystem supplies a ksh /etc/security/aixpert/bin/loginheraldto setup login herald in /etc/security/login.cfg but script has restriction that it use hard coded default loginherald message. see line 105 of script chsec -f /etc/security/log...
over 3 years ago in AIX 0 Planned for future release

A menu (to print/export...) in the "Field table" view

In the "Field table", the same menu as on the "Object table" or "Member table" view, to be able to print or export the field definitions Use Case: Helpfull to create documentation
about 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Not under consideration

QEMU in AIX YUM repository

Ability to use install QEMU on AIX using "yum install qemu" and possibly "yum install virtmgr". With or without KVM would be fine, though with KVM on the roadmap would be preferred.
over 6 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

Screen/Print Designer allow setting properties on multiple selected fields

In the Screen and Report Designers we cannot select multiple fields and change common properties. This functionality was available in CODE Designer. For instance, on a screen, we want all headings a certain color. In Screen Designer we have to mak...
about 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Not under consideration

Explaination needed as to why traditiona IBM i support for N-2 seems to be vanishing

For decades IBM has support the current release of the operation system (IBM i) and the prior 2 releases of same. Today, it sees only V7R5 and V7R4 are being enhanced and V7R3 is being abandoned before an enevatable V7Rn+1 is announced or shipped....
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Core OS 2 Not under consideration

Outline does not show LIKE() defined attirbutes

Fields defined using LIKE() keyword show on outline without any attibutes. Use Case: Manually pressing refresh does not fix. Verify cache option is set to refresh cache.
over 11 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 14 Is a defect

Proactive reporting of attack on System resources

PowerSC to support proactive monitoring to detect and report the attacks on resources, such as detection techniques for resource exhaustion, namely OS resource attacks, CPU attacks, consumption of kernel memory, local storage attacks.
over 3 years ago in PowerSC 5 Planned for future release

Dual HMC configuratrion with managed servers across two networked sites.

We have two HMC's in two separate sites. They managing the same managed systems as a dual-hmc configuration. The managed systems are also split across the two sites. Calls home for systems can be a challenge for support reps to correctly place the...
over 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Not under consideration

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