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watsonx and Openshift.ai support on Power. Early Acces Program (Beta testing)

We do have a potentially big oppy in Spain in INDRA. They work for Minitry of Defense and they are starting a project to deal with RADAR imaging where they want to use AI but, given the confidential characteristics of the data, they are promoting ...
3 months ago in Power Ecosystem Software / Government (includes education) 3 Future consideration

Enable options(*exact) for indicators.

I am the developer of RPGUNIT and recently I added procedure assertEqual() to it. This procedure handles all data types, because it uses the OVERLOAD keyword for delegating the call to the procedure that is in charge for the data type. dcl-pr asse...
3 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 2 Under review

AIX Security reporting tool

Since CIS Tool latest version (v4.x) dropped support for generating AIX security reports based on CIS AIX 7.x benchmark; There is currently NO tool, which would generate decent HTML security reports from AIX systems. And that is a HUGE gap in secu...
8 months ago in PowerSC 3 Planned for future release

For High Availability - remove hostname dependency

High available setups require the use of a service-IP address. The existing hostname dependency make such kind of HA requirements very challenging. Removing the hostname dependency would make such requests a lot easier to implement.
about 2 months ago in PowerSC 0 Submitted

Table that contains the QAUDJRN journal entry type descriptions

It would be useful to have a table, if one does not already exist, that contains the QAUDJRN journal entry descriptions. This would be very useful to be able to use to get the description using a join to the AUDIT_JOURNAL_xx & DISPLAY_JOURNAL....
4 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 6 Future consideration

chg sql to calculate in the right way

Sql calculate with the smalest decimalcalculate (in a Programm or in STRSQL)select Sum(1,25), sum(1,25/100)*19 from unique-file where unique-key in(a, b) --> 2 recordShow: 2,50 0,38 and that is wrong.of course if i think of it, ich can calculat...
6 days ago in IBM i / Languages - Other 0 Submitted

Support vHMC on Hyper-v

Many customers are using vmware, but with new license/broadcom challenges then other hypervisors are asked for. Smaller sites dont have a separate Power systems (or 2) to use for the vHMC so they are forced to either purchase the CR2 (best choice ...
about 1 month ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

Allow Simplified HMC based Remote Restart to recreate LPAR on target system even with reduced paths to the LUN

Simplified HMC based Remote Restart is currently not successful if the check on the target system results in a reduced number of paths to the LUN. This is the case with a HyperSwap configuration in the event of a data center failure (storage and s...
5 months ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

Policy-based High Availability (HA) support in PowerVC

Policy-based High Availability (HA) provides a solution for two Storage Systems in different locations where the storage will automatically remain accessible to hosts if there is an event that impacts the infrastructure and makes one of the system...
6 months ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

IBM Navigator for i - Disable multiple user profiles over multiple systems/LPAR's.

If a person leaves the company, it would be useful to disable the userprofile over multiple systems/LPAR's, instead of deleting the user profile.
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 0 Submitted