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Option for loading new/different profile on next/unplanned IPL

HMC should provide an option, where one can select a certain profile to be loaded on next reboot (which can be triggered manually or by a system crash)
about 7 years ago in Hardware Management Console 5 Not under consideration

Concurrent SR-IOV Migration

LPM of LPARs from Servers with Shared Ethernet Adapters (SEA) to Servers using vNIC and SR-IOV adapters is not possible directly. Hence the migration requires new definition of Ethernet-communication in target LPAR, which requires an outage of the...
about 7 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 1 Not under consideration

No root authority needed on storage for DRO alone

Client wants to use PowerVC for its sole DRO functionality. No short term plan for deploying VMs with PowerVC. Nevertheless, PowerVC requires "root" authority on storage and SAN linked to the partitions. Due to client's organization and needs, thi...
about 7 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Improvements to CSS LDAP

1) Currently if we are enabling domainless=true in LDAP for CSS, it is required user to set dist_uniqid=always. Why this can't be default behaviour or atleast giving warning to make it "dist_uniqid=always". 2) Currently when we make domainless=tru...
about 7 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

Novalink virtual fibre adapter creation

Novalink seems to be unable to create a virtual fibre interfaces on vio server. The only option available is pvmctl vfc list. As the co-management flag is set to novalink, we cannot create a new virtual fibre interface in order to present tape to ...
about 7 years ago in PowerVM NovaLink 2 Future consideration

"Find" keyboard shortcuts operate on indeterminate window

This applies to RDi version 8.0.3. (You might want to add "Release" as a Product identifier.) ;-) It appears that when using the "Find/Replace" function, using keyboard shortcuts causes RDi to operate inconsistently, sometimes on the active window...
almost 11 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Not under consideration

QSECOFR log in time changing after issuing STRTCPSVR

QSECOFR log in time changing after issuing STRTCPSVR Use Case: Once STRTCPSVR SERVER(*HTTP) HTTPSVR(*ADMIN) will change QSECOFR login timing.
about 7 years ago in IBM i / Security 3 Not under consideration

Ability to Change Text Color for Specific Content in LPEX Editor

Our team uses Rational Developer for i to edit large quantities of RPG, SQL and CL source. Our productivity is reduced by the lack of visual contrast in colors as the current version appears to not have a means to change the font color of If/Endif...
about 7 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Not under consideration

NIM SMIT enhancements, new UI

In AIX5.3/6.1, there was a great deal of functionality available in WebSM to manage NIM operations. Aside from it being graphical, which may appeal to some users, it was very handy in that you could select multiple targets for an operation (withou...
over 7 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

Recursive program call static variables

With use of THREAD(*CONCURRENT) for "MRT" programs (recursive call'able) we are missing a new type of 'static' variables:Program level: 1) Static GLOBAL variables (Shared for ALL recursive call instances) – ok (default)2) GLOBAL variables (Unique ...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 3 Not under consideration

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