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HMC REST API: add endpoint to get Power system CoD

Add an endpoint to the HMC REST API to get CoD data like it can be done from HMC CLI by the command: lscod -m {Power_System_name} -t bill -r mem of course also for CPU: -r proc and with flag: -F activated_onoff_resources
about 1 month ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

SQL Script Listing Open IFS Share Sessions

The below SQL script "SELECT SERVER_SHARE_NAME, SHARE_TYPE, TEXT_DESCRIPTION, PATH_NAME, CURRENT_CONNECTIONS FROM QSYS2.SERVER_SHARE_INFO WHERE SHARE_TYPE = 'FILE';" will list all IFS shares and the number of current connections but does not provi...
11 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Future consideration

String interpolation for RPG

Add string interpolation support so variables can be inserted into string literals without having to use concatenation with + symbols and multiple literals. For example:apples = 4bananas = 3print(f"I have {apples} apples and {bananas} bananas") Us...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 11 Not under consideration

Support Microsoft .NET Core and .NET Framework on IBM i

Microsoft Corp. has "open sourced" the .NET Core and .NET Framework, as well as the .NET compilers, etc., so now is the time for IBM to bring the .NET Core and .NET Frameworks to IBM i. .NET is a major software development platform, on par with Ja...
about 8 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 11 Not under consideration

Implementation of restore function that does not change the state of the access path

We would like you to implement the restore function that does not change the state of the access path by implicitly shared access paths. Our customers are having trouble getting their program to do something unexpected by save and restore. We wou...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 6 Not under consideration

EIM Windows domain source mapping from CRTUSRPRF

On CRTUSRPRF we have the parameter EIMASSOC. This lets us create an EIM identifier and add the current system as a TARGET. Every new user that is created need to also have the windows domain as a SOURCE in order for single signon to work. This mea...
3 months ago in IBM i / Security 2 Submitted

Improved behavior of IBM i when bad sectors of external storage occur

There was an incident that bad blocks on an external storage connected to an IBM i partition resulted in recursive SRC A6xx0266 for hours and performance of the IBM i partition significantly slowed down. It was hard for the customer to determine w...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Storage 2 Is a defect

Add ptf compare between multiple systems to New Navigator

The old fat client navigator with the compass from the deprecated windows product had the ability to compare PTF's between multiple systems and propagate them.Please add this to the New Navigator. Use Case: I want to know what PTF's are on my test...
about 3 years ago in IBM i / System Management 5 Future consideration

ACS allow paste into multiple windows and allow "multi execution across selected open emulation sessions.

we manage many LPARs, it would be very useful to execute a command against either all or selected LPARs.this would be similar to what other emulation programs call, Multi-execution "Write once, execute everywhere: this tool allows you to execute t...
3 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

Change the performance adjuster algorithm

The performance adjuster algorithm looks only if the pool is paging but doesn't care if it has already free memory. This causes sometimes that a pool start stealing a lot of memory without using it. The algorithm should look at the unallocated mem...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 4 Future consideration

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