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For queries requiring table scan agsinst of large, 100,000,000+ row tables, split the query into multiple threads based on a percentage of total table pages

WHY: Improved one off query performance against large, 100,000,000+ row tables. WHO: My customer has transaction log tables that can record millions of transactions per day. Peaking just above 58 million per month in the last 6 months. Maintaining...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Functionality already exists

Search for a string in a spool file

I would like to beable to search for a text string in a spool file. Use Case: When I compile a program I have to goto the green screen to check the error in the program listing. Would like to be able to check for error without going to the green s...
over 9 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 6 Not under consideration

Allow OVRPRTF command to specify TOSTMF('/dev/null') to suppress STDOUT from C based objects

Currently the OVRPRTF command will not allow overrides to stream files that already exist. We have been asked by a customer to suppress the creation of spooled files for certain batch tasks. Currently we issue the OVRPRTF command to route this to ...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Core OS 1 Not under consideration

IBM i ACS - Please add menu option in Win 10

When installing ACS on Win 10 it does not create a menu option like previous versions. The is a problem as users will periodically delete the icons on the screen and they can then not start ACS. We need the menu option to allow users to access ACS...
about 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

Integrated File System option in ACS keeps asking for password for multiple operation

If ACS is set to ask for user and password each app opening (say to open different IFS ACS windows using different users), it keeps asking for password even for EACH sub-operation, like "download". Recreate: open ACS IFS using ask for user and pas...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

Encryption Hardware Acceleration for GNUTLS/libnettle

The Samba project has away from home grown encryption and openssl to GNUTLS/libnettle in 2019 see https://blog.cryptomilk.org/2019/10/02/samba-and-gnutls/ With gnutls/libnettle in its current state, we can expect substantial performance penalty on...
over 1 year ago in Linux for Power / RHEL 8 (5639-RH8) 0 Planned for future release

PureStorage Active Cluster support for PowerVC

Would be great to have similar support for Dual site storage mirroring, as there is currently with SVC & HyperSwap on PowerVC 2.0.2. (please see RFE 113249 for details: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=...
over 3 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

HMC ESA / Call Home Setup using ALIAS instead of IP Address as SSL Proxy

System: HMCActor: Client needs additional feature Client is using HMC to manage Power Server with multiple AIX Partitions. Since this is a production server, they wanted to setup the ESA/Call home feature. Description:In the ESA / Call home setup,...
almost 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

Add prefered site option to the tiebreaker solution in PHA

When using the current tiebreaker solution for split brain protection then it's a random based decision which site will win. For some setup it would be helpful if there would be an option to define a preferred site.
almost 5 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Future consideration

ACS Java Print doesn't work, with OpenJ9(java)

ACS 1.1.8.0 can print a document with Oracle Java.But it can't print a document with Eclipse OpenJ9. Use Case: In the ACS 1.1.8.0, java print is supported. But install OpenJ9 instead of Oracle, java print doesn't work.
over 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Not under consideration

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