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    Command or tool to find objects inside the IFS

    It would be very helpful and useful to have a command or tool to search for objects in the IFS directory structure, by name, by date, by extension, and other criteria.Something like WRKOBJ OBJ(*ALL/P*) for example.
    about 3 years ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 3 Not under consideration

    Host Service Should Ignore Expired Certificates

    Today I experienced that as long as an expired certificate exists, the associated services on power i (e.g. login, database, ddm) do not work and deny access despite the fact there is another certificate that is active on the same services. By del...
    about 3 years ago in IBM i / Security 2 Future consideration

    Allow PTF Groups to be ordered using deltas

    We have developed a tool that can compare the PTF Group levels installed on a system and those available from IBM. When we see a difference between the group levels we use SNDPTFORD to order the PTF's directly to an Image Catalog ready for install...
    about 3 years ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 1 Functionality already exists

    Financial Report Painter

    Please include the IBI Financial Report Painter in Web Query. It has so much more flexibility than InfoAssist and the ability to build proper financials would be greatly appreciated. Use Case: Subtotals for profit or loss require expense amounts t...
    over 9 years ago in IBM i / Db2 Web Query 3 Not under consideration

    Allow multi-volume select for storage resizing operation

    It is common for users to have multiple storage volumes attached for databases or other workloads to support both throughput or capacity needs. When storage volume sizes need to be increased it is much faster and safer to allow selection of all th...
    about 3 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    High Availability for PowerVC integrated Software defined Networking for Novalink

    IBM PowerVC Software Defined Network (SDN) is designed as a neutron service running on novalink managed power systems, that service on novalink is not monitored by novalink and has no redundant service, as such any service outage event of the neut...
    over 6 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    Enable compilation of full free-form RPG to 6.1 from 7.1/7.2

    ILE RPG compilers on 7.1 and 7.2 should support compiling full free-form RPG when a target release of 6.1/V6R1M0 is specified. Use Case: Many companies are running IBM i systems that predate 7.1. 6.1 still has a relatively large install base. Allo...
    over 9 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 2 Not under consideration

    PowerHA log hacmp.log file shows ERROR message for TieBreaker setup at node startup , but it is not really an error.

    This error is seen during starting first node. RSCT command chrsrc configures tiebreaker using Global Scope.But if the first node is started when the other node is completely down and thus not reachable, Global Scope is not usable.The error genera...
    about 3 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 2 Under review

    Relaxed string manipulation BIF's that respect SBCS, UCS and UTF-8.

    Today we have nice features where we can get portions of character strings. However, especially with support of UTF-8, the number of bytes is not always equal to the number of characters. Also - trying to extract ranges of characters not within th...
    about 3 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 3 Not under consideration

    Add multiple FRU replacement

    Option to remove multiple FRU in in HMC GUI but, when clicking "Launch Procedure", HSCS0346 returns and my whole process is ignored. This should allow me to do so, as the GUI allows me to select multiple FRUs
    over 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

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