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Sorting by date / time information should work correctly

Within HMC Serviceable Events Manager panel user can sort information using selection of each individual column.But: sorting algorithm looks like to be based on alphabetical order for every column ....even for ordering based on column "Last Report...
over 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

Notify when DCM certificate is near to expire

The improved DCM tool, like its predecessor, does not have notification functionality a few days before certificates expire. It would be very helpful if you can notify us via email or at least in QSYSOPR and set how many days in advance we want yo...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / Security 8 Not under consideration

PowerSC Patch Management feature should also manage HIPER ifixes

The PowerSC Patch Management is an excellent feature to manage security ifixes. There are few customers who want PowerSC to also manage HIPER ifixes. Currently PowerSC only download security ifixes. It would be nice if PowerSC can also download an...
8 months ago in PowerSC 2 Planned for future release

HMC - Turn OFF/ON attention led is not working for user with role other then hmcsuperadmin

System: Hardware Management Console Actor: Server Administrator Description: Administrator use HMC to managed Server and perform task on VIOS system from HMC console.HMC allow to change attention led status (turn on / off) also HMC allow to execut...
over 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

Provide a ?not in? operator.

Now that we have a conditional “in” operator, please provide a “not in” operator, that can be used wherever “in” can, eg, with %lists, %ranges, arrays, etc. Use Case: Currently, to check if the value of a field is not in a list (or range, etc), we...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 2 Not under consideration

Make ACS RUNSQL SCRIPTS Open Source/Mbr Respect SRCFILE RCDLEN

In IBM ACS RUNSQL Scripts, if you open a host Source File member, if that source member exceeds 80 bytes, then ACS "wrecks" the source code--potentially making it usable. This request is to have ACS retrieve the source file's record length, and be...
almost 3 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Future consideration

Add Linux systemd support to AIX

The Linux distributions moved away from using inittab. All new linux distributions and applications are using systemd now.
almost 2 years ago in AIX 4 Future consideration

New BIF to test Parameter Length

Please introduce a new BIF (%parmlen) to get the length of a parmeter defined using OPTIONS(*VARSIZE) Use Case: To get the length of a parameter passed by reference *VARSIZE i have to code to use CEEDOD (prototype, parameters and the call itself)....
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 3 Future consideration

Delete/Drop VM without deleting/dropping any LUN/Volume

Today, when I delete a VM, I have to choose at least one boot volume to delete. I would like to have the option of deleting a VM while keeping ALL of its volumes in storage, just the volumes. The other settings, such as storage host, SAN zoning, V...
3 months ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

Save Results Sets to the IFS

Enable the 'Save Results' feature of Run SQL Scripts to save the output to the IFS of the connected server. This enables data extracted to be kept on the originating server e.g. for data security purposes and for environments where users are not a...
about 1 year ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Future consideration

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