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List procedures that a program uses in PROGRAM_EXPORT_IMPORT_INFO

Despite the name, the PROGRAM_EXPORT_IMPORT_INFO does not actually list the procedures imported by a program. This is important because, when the signature of a procedure changes, all programs that import (use) the procedure must be changed. Impor...
19 days ago in IBM i / Application Development 0 Submitted

Enable the usage of non ephemeral/static ports when using ObjectConnect over TCP/IP

Currently, IBMi ObjectConnect over TCP/IP uses TCP port 9841. Once the connection is established, it attempts to negotiate a data port connection within the ephemeral port range of 5000-65535. This configuration is not practical when a firewall ex...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 0 Submitted

lpardbg - Add data collection for LPARS running AIX

lpardbg is a great new feature to collect snap-data from VIOS via HMC, but it would be nice to be able to collect data from LPARS with AIX as OS as well. Documentation of lpardbg: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/power10?topic=commands-lpardbg
5 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

HMC Central Patch Management for AIX, PowerVM, Firmware and Microcode

HMC should have a Patch Management: Central Patch Management for AIX, PowerVM, Firmware and Microcode. IBM should provide a easy way for Patch Management. System Firmware and Adapter microcode report in one tool (something Microcode Discovery tool...
11 months ago in Hardware Management Console 13 Planned for future release

IPv6 - Provide default gateway configuration for SST LAN adapter interface

It is not possible in the existing OS releases to configure the default gateway for IPv6 interface in SST LAN interface. The only way how to make IPv6 interface working for this interface is to configure a LAN switch with auto discovery setup whic...
3 months ago in IBM i / Networking 3 Under review

lpardbg - Add data transfer to IBM over configured proxy

lpardbg is a great new feature to collect snap-data from VIOS via HMC, but it would be nice to transfer the collected data via Proxy to IBM. This is already possible for the command pedbg and the proxy from the call-home configuration is used here...
5 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

Improvement to the DSPPGMREF command

The command currently does not generate information about the commands used in a program.The improvement is to include information about this type of objects and be useful when performing some type of forensic analysis on the IBM i
2 months ago in IBM i / Languages - CL (Control Language) 1 Future consideration

Implement RFC3442 to include Classless Static Route Option 121 in DHCP

We would like to use the DHCP option 121. This option is introduced in the RFC3442. IBM confirmed that this RFC us currently not implemented. The introduction of this RFC3442 makes our life much easier, because we don't need to wait for the interf...
about 1 month ago in AIX 2 Submitted

Add 'compare' function when working with IFS source.

When editing a source member that contains unsaved changes, you can press ESC and type 'compare' to highlight those changes. With IFS source, it doesn't do anything. I'd like the 'compare' function to work with IFS source just like it does with so...
26 days ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Future consideration

Allow for multiple commands from one cli process.

When creating multiple connections via the acsbundle.jar /PLUGIN=cfg command. Each command is run in its own jvm which can take a long time to process when creating lots of connections. If we could string multiple commands into one jvm process thi...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Future consideration