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"Although the 'prtgblconfig -s ERRMSGCONTROL=ALLOFF' setting can be used to prevent informative messages from being written t

"Although the 'prtgblconfig -s ERRMSGCONTROL=ALLOFF' setting can be used to prevent informative messages from being written to user terminals, qdaemon will still (by it's usage of the systell/sysmsg functions) write messages to /dev/console, and I...
over 4 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

Enhance collocation behavior

If a member of a collocation group fails and is restarted on a backup host, the other member are moved to this backup host via restart. As long as members are healthy they should be moved via LPM. At least with first try, restart could be done if ...
about 2 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 0 Future consideration

Allow condition indicators at record level in screen designer

The SDA and Code/400 Designer products have always had the ability to set condition indicators during the design mode in order to overlay or hide fields on the display.This function is needed when there are multiple fields on a record occupying th...
about 11 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Not under consideration

BRMS Enterprise Services

BRMS Enterprise Services - Seems to be issues with the way the node policy works and developers notice issues but developers are stating the product is working as design. Node policy is running for all partitions in the environment although they a...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 2 Not under consideration

Support 3-way (or n-way) DASD mirroring

We would like to be able to mirror DASD units across 3 (or more) physical devices, instead of just two. Use Case: Mirroring as it current exists only has protection against a single DASD device failure. While the probability of the mirrored unit f...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Storage 4 Not under consideration

in RDi have the ability to use F3 in a COBOL source program

When developing and troubleshooting programs in RDi within an RPGLE program, the ability to jump to a subprocedure using F3 and returning with the "Alt + Arrow key" is a great feature. Request modifications be made to the development tool to allow...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Not under consideration

WRKLNK unusual F17 "Starting with"

The command WRKLNK works in one point different then other commands.When i use F17 i want to go to the start, when i use F18 i want to go to the end of the subfile.These function are hided behind F17.Could IBM change F17 to something else and put ...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 2 Not under consideration

Ability to see a list of active LPARs before proceeding with a disruptive firmware upgrade from HMC

GEICO recently upgraded firmware on a number of E850s. They accidentally upgraded a Production node during working hours instead of a Test Server. They would like HMC to give them a warning message about which LPARs are currently active on the ser...
over 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

Display Data Queue View in RDi

I would like to see a view in RDi to display a data queue.This could be a Show in Table action on a Data Queue object in the Object Subsystem.It does not have to be editable. View-only is fine Use Case: I have lots of data queues in my set of prog...
almost 9 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Not under consideration

VIOS support for NPIV tape failover

There is no VIOS support for NPIV tape failover due to the fact that the tape devices have no "I/O re-try" option. If VIOSA fails, all virtual tape drives have to be reconfigured and re-mapped manually in VIOSn, or pre-configured using different W...
over 6 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 1 Not under consideration

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