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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
almost 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

iACS - HOD

we have done a network installation of iACS inside our IFS with restricted access for functions like "run SQL-Scripts". Our Users can only see the 5250-Emulator and their SPLFs. We have entered the restrictions inside the AcsConfig.properties-file...
about 3 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

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...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Future consideration

Ability to assign/reassign/remove VMs from Shared Processor Pools

Currently in PowerVC the only way that a Shared Processor Pool can be set for a VM is by using a compute template specifying the pool at deployment time. Any change of a VM to a different pool post deploy needs to be performed using the HMC. Havin...
about 2 months ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

Add Source Change Mark column to Source Physical Files to promote move to **FREE and preserve historical metadata

With the addition of **FREE support for RPGLE, the prior use of columns 1 - 5 goes away. However, the vast majority of developers use these 5 characters to put a 'change mark' to tie source code changes back to a project or reason for the change. ...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Make RSS your own Examples easier to maintain.

The functionality in RSS to insert from Examples and to save as New Example is absolutely great. As IBM keeps enhancing what we can do with SQL, like the prompting for statement variables addes in ACS 1.1.9.2, would it not be great if we could upd...
8 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Submitted

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.
over 7 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

Setting cap/uncap for existing VM in PowerVC

Currently PowerVC allows setting cap/uncap mode via compute template before VM creation. There is no way to change this once the VM is created. The request is to allow cap/uncap to be changed after the VM is created.
5 months ago in PowerVC 1 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

Allow seamless Git integration with RDi

Make Git adoption in RDi seamless for RPG developers. RDi currently has iProjects which can be used to adopt Git, but iProjects operate on the premise of offline editing. Not all RPG developers are going to be editing offline. Use Case: Focus on a...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 7 Future consideration

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