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DATFMT(*JOBYY) for date fields in DDS

We want to control the format of our date field dynamically depending on a country or user setting. Normally you can use the DATFMT keyword to set the date's format. And all formats are supported. Our idea was to use DATFMT(*JOB) because we wanted...
4 months ago in IBM i / Application Development 0 Submitted

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.
23 days ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

vnicserver device needs to signal to phyp when it's shutting down to avoid network outage

Environment:Power9 server with vios 3.1.3.21 pair which host vnicserver devices with backing sriov adapters for the vnic client devices in failover configuration Problem:During shutdown/reboot of the vio server that hosts the active vnicserver dev...
over 1 year ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Future consideration

keep alive or timeout within the LPR/LPD process to the IBM i for remote output queues to recover without having to end and restart the writer.

IBM i was sending data to the printer. The connection was dropped and both the IBM i and printer are waiting indefinitely for a response from the other side." the current design of LPR/LPD on IBM i does not have a keep alive or timeout setting. Th...
16 days ago in IBM i / Print 1 Future consideration

Adding a new activation group parameter to CREATE or REPLACE VARIABLE

A C-ILE program is currently being created at CREATE VARIABLE, which runs with the activation group *CALLER. Therefore, the SET VARIBALE VALUE can only be used in the activation group in which the variable is used. By specifying a named activation...
16 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Future consideration

HMC automated installation

It's possible to have option for fully automated installation physical HMC and virtual HMC ? This is time consuming in case IBM support request as part of solution reinstallation of HMC code and restore configuration from backup. It will simplify ...
4 months ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

Do not use QSECOFR for Transform Services (5770TS1) jobs or functions at V7R5

Per the IBM i 7.5 Security Planning and setting up system security manual: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/ssw_ibm_i_75/pdf/rzamvpdf.pdf, the use of QSECOFR user profile on the system is discouraged. However Transform Services (5770TS1) jobs, QCTXMGR ...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Print 3 Future consideration
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*ESCAPE messages for SAVLIB

We have received MONMSG for CPF3795 in every SAVLIB running in our CL program: https://ecurep.mainz.de.ibm.com/rest/download/28061%2C100%2C838/2018-04-06/28061.100.838.SOURCE.txt?astext=true&fileSize=83568 But, when CPF3795 is reported saving ...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 5 Not under consideration

If there is an application monitor installed e. g. that runs every 5 minutes it doesn't reflect the status to the clavan.log.

If there is an application monitor installed e. g. that runs every 5 minutes it doesn't reflect the status to the clavan.log. So, if there are no log entries the clavan cmd says "clavan: Not able to analyze application availability because both th...
9 days ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Submitted

Rsyslog with omkafka module and libsasl/GSSAPI support

Hello, I request the compilation of AIX rsyslog with the omkafka module and libsasl/GSSAPI support. We are encountering the following error in our environment: 7216.011687000:main Q:Reg/w0 : errmsg.c: Called LogMsg, msg: omkafka: error cr...
about 2 months ago in AIX 0 Submitted

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