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    Add Program/Library and Job to Index Advised Table

    The index advised table (and the according Navigator interfaces) should be enhanced by adding the (last) program and job identification that caused that specific index advise to be added/updated. Use Case: In order to perform general application p...
    about 9 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Not under consideration

    Access to VM serial console via API

    PowerVC does not appear to implement support for access to a VM's serial console over the Nova Compute API, via the os-getConsoleOutput or os-getSerialConsole actions. PowerVC/Novalink should provide support for accessing a serial console, and imp...
    over 4 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    Provide additional attribute for Adding trigger to enable them either for Interactive session or batch session.

    Please provide an option to select either for interactive session or batch session while adding triggers to database files. It would help in a big way to develop access log applications for GDPR. Use Case: With the GDPR implementation in Europe, i...
    over 7 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Not under consideration

    Make it easier to script changes to the library list of a job description

    I had the need to add a library to many job descriptions, too many to want to do manually with CHGJOBD. Using new IBMi services to show job description libraries followed by a CHGJOBD might work, but it's quite clunky. Use Case: Need to add a libr...
    about 6 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 8 Not under consideration

    Simple option to hide command special value

    PARM of CMD has the option to specify special values.Those special values appear first in the list of the values in the CHOICE prompt.We would like to have the option to hide some or all special values from appearing in the CHOICE text. Use Case: ...
    over 7 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 1 Not under consideration

    warning in advance before making chaanges that will disable profile sync

    Profile sync is a very helpful feature so it would be nice if when making changes that will disable the feature we could get a warning pop-up when pressing save saying something like "saving this config will disable profile synchronization" in the...
    about 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

    FTP over SSL server on AIX - introduce option on ftpd.cnf for setting passive port range

    After PASV mode is set in an FTPS connection, FTPS server will choose a random port in whole ephemeral port range, and send that port number to client in order for FTPS client to establish the data channel connection. So any firewall between clien...
    about 6 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

    Startup JVM on QZDASOINIT prestart process.

    Would like the ability to specify a program or command to execute that will start up a JVM, for each of my prestarted QZDASOINIT jobs. Use Case: I have about 100+ customers running web apps, and connected via JDBC pooling from Spring. We are runni...
    about 9 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Not under consideration

    Automatic Port Speed Synchronization for NPIV vFC Client Adapter

    Changes to the port speed attribute of a physical FC adapter in the VIOS are not automatically passed along to the NPIV vFC adapters in the client LPARs. NPIV vFC adapters need be reconfigured to learn about the new port speed setting of the under...
    about 9 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 1 Not under consideration

    Improvement of 5250 emulation

    When you start a 5250 emulation sesion you get a tab saying " A - sysname'. If you start another sesion you get "B- sysname". I would like to be able to change this session text by opening a text window with a rigth mouse click on the tab. Use Cas...
    about 9 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 5 Not under consideration

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