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Retry FDISC to re-establish a NPIV connection at a user settable time frame

In a virtualized environment with NPIV certain fabric changes (such as firmware updates) may require the need to re-establish a NPIV connection using a FDISC. This FDISC is being retried. If this is not successful the NPIV client is giving up, and...
over 6 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 1 Not under consideration

Allow IBM i connection to Fix Central to download PTF iso image files to also use port 990 as well as port 21 for secure downloads.

My company has threatened to disallow a connection to Fix Central using port 21 even if it is secure. This would prohibit the ability to download iso image files from Fix Central to the IBM i. Right now if the command FTP <fix-central> SECCN...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 2 Not under consideration

Add button in debug to terminate debug AND end job

I would like to have a button that would terminate debug AND end the job. The green screen debugger will end debug and the RPGLE program immediately when F3 is pressed. I would like the RDp debugger to have the same "one-click" functionality. I wo...
almost 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Not under consideration

Adding Items to BRMS Control Group

When adding an item to a BRMS control group, the new item goes to the bottom of the list. I then have to select the item and click the Move Up button. If I've got 25 items in my control group I have to hit a button about 20 times if I want to inse...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 5 Not under consideration

Add AFP Manager function to Navigator for i web User interface

Currently, IBM i Access for Windows i Navigator has "AFP Manager" function". This allows customer to import AFP resources from other platforms/tools in BINARY format. However, There is not equivalent function on Navigator for i web User interface....
about 8 years ago in IBM i / System Management 1 Not under consideration

prevent "find: bad status--"

Intermittent problem with "find". If the directory contains thousands of files, sometimes "find" reports "find: bad status". I guess that find does a snapshot of files under provided directory. Then, it "fstat" each file to know if it meets comman...
almost 5 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

Email all self-service users / Add custom email templates and rules

PowerVC has a built-in email functionality for requests/expiration notices. Enhancing the product with the ability to send notices to all users and users by project (maintenance notices / security bulletins / reminders) via the built-in "donotrepl...
over 6 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Streamline PTF Process

The PTF process feels antiquated. It would be nice to be able to use a package manager to handle this. This new command would be for installation, upgrade and viewing installed / available ptfs. In pase: ptf install XXXXXX # apply permanentptf tem...
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 4 Not under consideration

Hold PowerHA Resource Group w/ node that had it last

After experiencing a loss of both 10Gb links between data centers in a stretched cluster, the primary node that held the resource group rebooted 4 times thinking the secondary node had acquired the RG. Heartbeat was lost on the repository disk. Se...
over 6 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Not under consideration

Enable block nesting in RPG source members

When editing and RPGLE source member you can use the block nesting function to have RDp connect the IF/ENDIF, DO/ENDDO, FOR/ENDFOR (etc.) statements. This is really nice if someone didn't do a very good job of indenting or if the group spans multi...
almost 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 9 Not under consideration

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