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Speed up RMC state changes in PowerVC

In PowerVC sometimes it takes a lot of time until an active RMC state is recognized and shown in PowerVC. The HMC provides an event mechanism over the REST API that may be used to inform PowerVC of RMC state changes. If this mechanism is used the ...
almost 4 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Need support of Hybrid Network in PowerVC

We need support of Hybrid Network for High Speed adapter >= 100 GBE
over 3 years ago in PowerVC 2 Future consideration

BRMS ICC - avoid loop when no more media available (using volume prefixes)

Hello, That it might be interesting not to loop the backup when there is no more media available. we always get Cartridge xxx not available message in BRMS log when job is stuck. Regards, Axel C.
5 months ago in IBM i / BRMS 1 Under review

Usage of Enumeration in "Outline"-View

When we declare fields, files, enumerations etc. we can see them in our Outline-view and click on them to jump to their declaration in the code.With normal fields, files etc. we also get the references which indicate in which line they are used an...
7 months ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Future consideration

Remote Restart & Entering maintainance mode to support collocation affinity rules

Currently PowerVC doesn't function in a desired manner when utilising collocation affinity rules. When you put a host into maintenance mode, if that host has multiple virtual machines in the same collocation rule, you cannot migrate active virtual...
over 1 year ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

IBM i SSO authentication against Azure Global AD

Actually, a valid Network Authentication service and EIM configuration permits to use SSO on IBM i through different Windows AD realms for the users to authenticate to the IBM i using their windows usernames. New times requires new technologies fo...
almost 3 years ago in IBM i / Security 3 Future consideration

SQLRPGLE precompiler - allow usage of large VARCHARS by interpreting the same as SQLTYPE(CLOB)

Currently you cannot use large RPGLE VARCHARs (length >= 32705) in EXEC SQL statements. I suggest updating the SQL precompiler and SQL processing so that they can be. This would remove the need for defining SQLTYPE(CLOB) in new programs, VARCHA...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Future consideration

DB2 for i GeoServer extension

We need to deliver geospatial data to the company via GeeoServer but we haven't found an extension that allows us to use DB2 for i as a datastore. There is a extension to DB2, but is for DB2 LUW and do not work with DB2 for i. (https://docs.geoser...
5 months ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 0 Submitted

HMC GUI Darkmode

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9 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

CLI command power on / off Multiple specified Managed Systems at same time

Currently the latest Firmware ONLY allows to power on / off a single Managed System or ALL Managed Systems currently managed by this HMC. Requesting to have ability, in CLI, to Power On / Off multiple specified Managed Systems at the same time, li...
7 months ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Planned for future release

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