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Need a permanent fix for the issues getting created by the presence of unused adapters in the System

We were told through case TS002396037 that the presence of unused Ethernet and Fiber Channel adapters are the cause for reoccurring SEA failures on our VIOs. Upon Failure we have to restart our VIOs to bring back the SEA to a stable state. We were...
over 5 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Future consideration

I want to widen the printing width of ACS

English translation of original text:The print results of ACS's Java print service appear to be clogged with lines compared to the print results of iAW.According to our survey, we received similar inquiries from multiple customers, but no correcti...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 6 Not under consideration

Decrease name resolution performance when losing a DNS

On our Power System, we have 3 DNS in the option 12 of cfgtcp. The problem is when I lose a DNS (maintenance, crash, ...) the resolution performance decrease. We have an application (Wish) that do a name resolution of the computer from where the s...
about 7 years ago in IBM i / Networking 5 Not under consideration

Implement an option to ignore trigger on update

Add an option that allows to ignore triggers on update/delete Use Case: I'm having a stored procedure that updates a technical field on tables. these updates are slow, because there are triggers on some tables. I know that these updates don't have...
about 7 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Not under consideration

ACS Schema Browser - Add easier temporal table activation GUI options

Add a right click option to tables in ACS Schema Explorer to activate temporal tables on a table. Or add option within the table / column creation windows to specify temporal table options. Use Case: Faster development, more feature rich UI
about 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

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

Converge the IBM i operating system with PASE (or AIX) and produce one merged operating system that is primarily Linux-based but can run IBM i code and databae

It is clear that IBM i is being "enhanced" by simply added more and more open source and SQL functions, and no a lot of anything else. I suggest IBM start a project to combine both Linux/AIX/PASE and IBM i as was done with S/36 SSP and S/38 CPF ba...
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 2 Not under consideration

RDi i Projects - allow saving source in IFS instead of library

Since most of the compilers now support storing source in the IFS, it would be nice if the projects would also support saving source code in the IFS instead of just a library/source file. Use Case: In a project, right click on the project and spec...
about 9 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Not under consideration

ScreenDesigner support for building menus

ScreenDesigner should support the creation and modification of IBM i menus, at least the integrated editing and compile of the DDSMNU and MNUCMD source members that form the foundation for an IBM i menu. Use Case: The use would be similar to part ...
over 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Not under consideration

Provide migration to CCSID(1208) / UTF-8 as QCCSID system value CCSID.

To provide a more globalized environment, it would be fantastic if IBM i migrated to UTF-8 as its the default/primary CCSID. That way programs and data written would work and appear the same everywhere, by default. I'm advocating a similar migrati...
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 2 Not under consideration

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