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Greek characters on user profile description in iNAV interface

We want to be displayed the Greek characters in user's profile description when browsing users through the new iNAV web interface, just as it has been in old Heritage Navigator and until previous release V7R3! We cannot change profile descriptions...
about 1 year ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Future consideration

Need HMC function opening a PMR and upload pedbg etc. to IBM

We would like to see function via CLI and GUI to create a PMR Salesforce ticket at IBM and to upload pedbg and other collections to the ticket systems in a new or already existing PMR
over 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

Allow custom commands to run in IWS

when creating an end point, we have the option to list the libraries where the api exists and thus, it also effects the library list that the job will run under. It would be nice to be able to run custom CL commands in that area to be executed whe...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Web Serving 1 Future consideration

IWS Swagger page

We need a swagger page that we can test any of the endpoints we create in IWS. This would work like other API webtools that automatically create the swagger page that you can test the endpoints with.
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Web Serving 1 Future consideration

Emergency pedbg package

Since the pedbg package it growing with the new HMC versions and with new features it can be up to 7 GB file size. When a customer is having a managed system or partition issue that affects his production, there is no need for information that is ...
about 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

idle_timeout for HMC user on GUI and HMC CLI

Session limitations: HMC doesn't support user session timeout as of today for both GUI and CLI logins. As per https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/power9?topic=hmc-session-handling , the idle timeout user property task is not functional. The HMC interface ...
over 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

Please add nslookup, host, dig as part of the base os or TC1

I need to use nslookup (could maybe settle for dig or host) from IBM i. However you only get these tools if you have option 31 of SS1 loaded. Option 31 will no longer be supported as per https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/announcements/end-marketing-en...
6 months ago in IBM i / Networking 3 Functionality already exists

Support USER as Default for VARCHAR(10) Columns in Db2 SQL Tables

Currently if I have a table with a varchar(10) field in it, I cannot specify DEFAULT USER or any of the other user registers because they are 18 bytes or longer.However on IBM i, user Profiles are 10.It would save me having to write a Trigger for ...
almost 3 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Future consideration

IBM i MULTIPATH SAN BEHAVIOR

Hello IBM i and Storage Teams, Due to an intermittent physical failure of a single SAN switch SFP resulted in significant system impact affecting this media company core business application, users and their customers for an extended period of tim...
about 3 years ago in IBM i / Storage 3 Future consideration

Docker on AIX

Docker is a technology that allows for applications to be created, deployed and run using containers. This allows applications and services to be built and deployed on any operating system that supports Docker.
about 7 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

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