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    PowerVC should fully support Policy-based HA

    A lot of IBM flashsystems are now supporting policy-based high availability (PBHA). And a lot of clients are eager to start using it.To my knowledge, IBM PowerVC still does not support PBHA. It also isn't in the announcement for PowerVC 2.3.2 (the...
    4 months ago in PowerVC 4 Future consideration

    Enable multiple OUs on CSRs coming from the HMC

    Most PKIs are structured hierarchially with more than one OU, in our case it is not possible to sign a Certificate Request with only one OU via our internal PKI. Also: Self signed certificates will increasingly be banned in the future - which is a...
    5 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

    Add OVRSCOPE to OVERRIDE_INFO

    Please add the Override Scope, parameter OVRSCOPE in most OVRxxx commands, as a column to the results returned by the Override Information View, OVERRIDE_INFO. I find it surprising that this was missed from the specifications as most of us who nee...
    18 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 0 Submitted

    Add a JOB TYPE (Batch or Interactive) field to RPG's PSDS (Program status data structure)

    When exception occurs I need to know whether to alert the (interactive) user or send alert (a MSG or e-mail) to SYSOPR. To achive this in the curren state of things I need to call a CL PGM (that does a RTVJOBA) or query the V_ACTIVE_JOB_TYPE Check...
    about 1 month ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 1 Future consideration

    Provide FTP virtual directories

    Allow a user (on a per user basis, preferable via the QIBM_QTMF_SVR_LOGON exit) to be locked into a specific FTP directory... this directory should be his virtual root (jail). This concept prevents the user from navigating or specifying a path out...
    about 1 month ago in IBM i / Networking 2 Under review

    Fix or add a working API to list files in COS

    Currently, the Qicc_list_files_in_cloud API in the 5733ICC product (IBM Cloud Storage Solutions for i) is not working, and there is no substitute for a list of files uploaded and/or present in COS. It is extremely important to be able to verify wh...
    2 months ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 3 Submitted

    Add support for using fcnvme devices as Physical Volumes for Shared Storage Pools

    fcnvme (NVMe over Fibre Channel) seems to come with better performance and fewer constraints than fcscsi.Since AIX already supports this technology, I would like to see SSPs extended to allow for these devices to be used as the Physical Volumes fo...
    4 days ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Submitted

    Add the ability to change IFS journal inherit flag regardless of journal state

    When you set the inherit flag for a directory when starting journalling there is no way to remove that flag without ending journalling, starting journalling again without the flag set and then ending journalling again. You also cannot change the f...
    4 days ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 0 Submitted

    Enable block nesting in Cobol source members (OPM as well as ILE)

    Ctrl-Shift-O (Show Block Nesting) and Ctrl-Shift-M (jump the cursor to the beginning or end of a code block) are very useful shortcuts when it comes to editing block statements (e.g. an IF/ELSE block) within RPG. Both shortcuts however do not work...
    5 days ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 0 Submitted

    Add support to update PowerVC Fabric managed keys in the Appliance

    PowerVC Fabric certificate replacement may require copying certifates into the trust store as well as manually copying to the PowerVC opt folders
    8 days ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

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