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Capacity/Performance Management

HMC should provide the same detail level and functionality like lpar2rrd in point of Capacity and Performance management.
4 months ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Submitted

When using Navigator for i (Nav4i) add the function used in the tab name in use by Nav4i in that tab.

Navigator for i is a great tool to manage your IBM i environment. It allows you to use several tabs, but all those tabs have the same name IBM Navigator for i. When having a tab open for: Inquiry messages Custom Charts ARE Console Active Jobs Perf...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / System Management 2 Future consideration

Make joblog displayed in RSS Messages window LIFO instead of FIFO or even better make it optional

With the introduction of IBM Services more and more system administration tasks are moving to SQL scripting. In those SQL scripts CL commands are used using the syntax "CL:". Also the scalar function QSYS2.QCMDEXC is used. When running commands in...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Submitted

Support the new BOOLEAN SQL data type in ACS Data Transfer (Upload to IBM i)

Currently, data transfer (upload) fails if any field in the table is of type BOOLEAN.
about 2 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Future consideration

HMC LPAR configuration CPU/Memory allocation checker and advisor

Would be great HMC will be doing checks in case there is configuration attempt not following best practices according NUMA architecture or ratio between EC vs vCPU. Check ratio between CPU / Memory according SRAD best practice. In case will be pos...
about 2 months ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

Allow %PROC BiF in the ON-EXIT

Allow the %PROC built in function to be used in the ON-EXIT group. That way if the subprocedure errors I can return the name of the subprocedure to whatever called it.
6 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 2 Future consideration

Provide Prometheus exporter for LPAR and System data in HMC

Please provide a Prometheus exporter for the HMC which cound be used for sending system and partition utilization data to prometheus timeseries database. This would be very helpful to consolidate performance data in a single place together with ot...
6 months ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Submitted

OAuth support for gmail email from IBMi

I've put this request in because Tech Support had nothing and recommended this as the course of action at this time. As of September 30, 2024, gmail is no longer allowing POP and SMTP for email. Anyone using gmail to send emails from the IBMi will...
14 days ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 0 Submitted

Change SPOOLED_FILE_DATA so *SCS spooled files with ICGDTA(*YES) can be search

I wrote a routine to allow me to present spooled files in VS Code and open them into an edit tab, I can also download the spooled file. These actions use CPYTOSPLF. I also wrote a routine that uses SPOOLED_FILE_DATA but some *SCS reports are not a...
28 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Under review

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

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