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go directly in Virtual Fibre Channel instead of Virtual SCSI tab when going on LPAR Virtual Storage

When clicking on the LPAR, then virtual storage, the first tab virtual scsi is automatically selected. In the majority of cases, we would rather use virtual storage channel tab first. Can you change default to be virtual storage channel? or create...
about 1 month ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

Authority Collection should include "object attribute"

Authority Collection should include "object attribute" along with the existing information about objects being accessed (object schema, object name, object type). Currently it is not possible to discern a physical file from a display file using th...
4 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Future consideration

All **FREE to be the first non-blank line in source code instead of strictly the first line

When I code, I always leave the top line blank for various reasons. Also many developers do the same. Some reasons include that RDi doesn't let you insert a line before line 1 (try it, it doesn't) but that's minor. For the most part, I want the co...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 0 Submitted

Free Tier for IBM i (AS/400) to Support Education, Ecosystem Growth, and Promote IBM Cloud

Note: This proposal for IBM i addresses the exact same core issue of lacking a free tier for accessibility, education, and community growth as outlined for AIX in idea AIX-I-802: https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/AIX-I-802. Both platforms suffer from th...
3 months ago in IBM i / Core OS 1 Under review

Send backup volumes to two different COS buckets without having to double the space needed.

Good-morning, Use case: Customer is doing backups with BRMS, and they want to have the backup volumes in two different buckets, one bucket in Madrid and the other in Frankfurt. The only way to do this at the moment is to use DUPMEDBRM, but with DU...
2 months ago in IBM i / BRMS 6 Future consideration

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
9 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

Please add option to nfs client to let the server manage the group info / equivalent to -g or --manage-gids

Dear Sir or Madam, With AIX as client to mount NFS Shares users are not able to access data which are shared via NFS. In my case users have more than 16 groups they belong to and need to access their files. Groups can not be eliminated, unfortunat...
8 days ago in AIX 0 Submitted

within the new iNavigator - Active Jobs - Filter Job name that contains more than one. I believe this was possible on the Heritage iNav

within the new iNavigator - Active Jobs - Filter Job name that contains more than one. As an example, Job name contains QBAT, QINT I believe this was possible on the Heritage iNavigator
8 days ago in IBM i / System Management 0 Submitted

Backup MFA Server on HMCs

We have implemented MFA on all our HMCs via PowerSC MFA Servers, but in the Multi Factor Authentication configuration of HMC, has only one Server HostName or IP address of PowerSC MFA Server to configure! That means that if we failover to the back...
3 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

Live Partition Mobility: Allow overrides of CPU and LPAR ID on target CEC

For hosted environments, moving a partition from P9 to P10, for example, is often not at CPU-for-CPU but at CPW-for-CPW (e.g. 15000 CPW = 1 CPU on a 9009-22a but not on a 9105-22a). And LPAR ID is automagically assigned.This is counter-productive,...
4 months ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 4 Submitted