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Add an EKM server to HMC

In order to use hardware tape encryption with our IBM i servers, we need to have a set of servers configured with an EKM product (SKLM, formerly TKLM) to manage the keys. It would be nice of the HMC could have an integrated EKM server so we can ma...
over 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Not under consideration

Dedicated CPU templates lack "Allow when partition is active" checkbox

When creating/editing a compute template, with dedicated processors, it is not possible to check af box to implement "Allow when partition is active" as you can do in HMC. You can check a box called "Idle sharing", whick is equal to "Allow when pa...
over 6 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Options for Freezing/Unfreezing of the Column Header in the SQL Results tab in RDPi

In RDPi after going to the Data Perspective and connecting to a Database open the SQL Script. From the SQL Script firing an SQL statement the results are shown in the SQL Results view. While scrolling the result outputs the Columns Heading is also...
over 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Not under consideration

Run commands through debugger

When using STRDBG on the green screen we can access a command line. That means that when we debug a program that was called in an interactive sesson, we are in the same job and cans see/change objects in QTEMP of the running program. We sometimes ...
over 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Not under consideration

cfgmgr locks VIOS if called in separate processes at the same time

mkdev, mkiscsi, cfgmgr, rmdev, rmiscsi cause the odm to lock and subsequently the VIOS gets locked and needs to be rebooted to recover. We run these commands when an LPAR is started/stopped and they could happen at the same time. This causing the ...
over 3 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 1 Is a defect

On AIX, authenticate user access to servers by the LDAP group to which they belong.

System : AIXProduct : LDAPDescription:The client must be able to allow an access to server with an authenticate LDAP users according to the group to which they belong (bdd, ssoo, was,etc..), the directive of HostAllow and HostDeny of servers is no...
over 6 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

nimadm to support AIX update with cache volume group on master

It will be nice to avoid to perform the update of AIX to a TL or SP on the client itself in order to not impact the LPAR performance.It is already the case for Migration using nimadm but this fonctionnality will be also appreciated for update too.
over 6 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

RDI: Fixed form and free form data structures are not shown correct in outline

In a program I have data structures that are defined in the traditional fixed format and the new free format. It looks like that the outline in RDI mixes them together. I'm using RDI version: 9.6.0.1OS/400 V7R1 Use Case: I have attached 3 files. T...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Is a defect

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about 10 years ago in Parallel Environment for Power Linux / Runtime Edition 5 Not under consideration

From a library, a CHGCURLIB option

In RSE, from a library, an option to change this library on the current library Use Case: Currently the option "Change Current Library" is only available on the libray list. It would be usefull to have it on a library
over 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Not under consideration

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