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Move volume between projects

Currently to move volumes between projects involves un-managing volume from one project, then managing it in another project. It would be nice for Administrator users to have an option to select unmapped volumes and send to another project.
about 7 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

"Show in Table" view as provided in RSE needed for iProjects

In Remote Systems Explorer ther is an option to show all Sourcemembers or Library Objets in a table view. Use Case: his view is a substitute for the old PDM view which is urgently needed when browsing the short PGM names by looking at the Text Att...
over 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Not under consideration

Need possibility to do remote actions for multiple sourcemembers at once

We need the possibility to compile / use remote actions for more than ojust one sourcemember at once.The isea ist select multiple mebers and do the remote action or to select the complete sourcefile to do te remote action for all members Use Case:...
over 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Not under consideration

Enhance the POS keyword to support a location of *NEXT similar to OVERLAY.

The OVERLAY keyword is required when its "field" parameter is the data structure name. However OVERLAY does not allow *NEXT for the position of that field, a hard-coded value must be specified otherwise it defaults to 1. The POS keyword support ov...
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 4 Not under consideration

support #pragma once in C/C++

Please add support for the non-standard but widely support #pragma once. It's way more convinient than regular include guards and would make porting software easier.
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / Languages - Other 2 Future consideration

Add FC-NVMe N-Port ID virtualization support to Power9

In October, 2022, IBM announced N-port ID virtualization client support for FC-NVMe which provides ANA support for storage that support it (like NetApp). AIX 7.3 TL1 delivers enhancements that can help you respond faster to business demands: Impro...
almost 2 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

Need to be able to use chfs to move filesystem to support internal snapshot when it is created to support an external snapshot

As of now AIX wont support chfs to move filesystem to support internal snapshot when it is created to support an external snapshot. Customers need to recreate the filesystem if they want to use internal snapshot. Since with filesystem created for ...
almost 2 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

Add skguard count to DB Health Center as System or Environment Limit

It turned out that hitting the maximum number of entries in skguard causes a major outage as no sqe optimization can take place. This requires an IPL to resolve. It seems reasonable to add the number of entries in skguard to DB Health Center to av...
about 7 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Not under consideration

ADD ADAPTER and REMOVE would benefit if SYSTEM BUS NUMBER was shown

When moving Physical IO adapters from one partition to the other the SYSTEM BUS number and the Location Code of the adapter are the two pieces of information Clients use to Confirm they are moving the intended adapter. The SYSTEM BUS number is the...
over 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

Include linux screen command in VIOS

Hello, We would like that VIOs support a similar command as the screen command in the linux world. Thank you OD
about 7 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 2 Not under consideration

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