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RSCT - Change to Communication Group formation over entirely uncommon subnets

When creating a RSCT "Peer Domain" cluster in a DR setup (2 Data Centers, multiple km apart), and with multiple Networks. It can happen that unwanted, or not working RSCT Communication Groups get created. It would be useful to have a capability to...
about 2 years ago in AIX 3 Planned for future release

Schedule report of missing HIPER/security patches(Ibmi/AIX(VIOS)/Linux

Easy check of missing PTFs/patches Would benefit internal/external customers with precise, clear and easy information of status of the environment. Saves time and provides info in an consistent way.
over 2 years ago in Cloud Management Console 0 Future consideration

Implement immediate unmap on file deletion or asynchronous automated unmap

The current implementation of JFS2 unmap allows for the use of chfs -a reclaim=<fast|normal> filesystem This request is to implement a solution closer to other OSs/Filesystems that would remove the manual intervention and release the space a...
over 1 year ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

Collapse a section in RPG source.

Like in JavaScript or HTML source editors, in RPG I would like collapse a subroutine, a subprocedure, an IF - ENDIF and so on by cliking on symbol "-". Use Case: Like SEU command X.
almost 9 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 8 Future consideration

Add a SQL Function to verify JWT (JSON Web Token)

We provide Webservices on IBM. The webservice consumers do an authentication with different types of tokens, e.g. RS256 (azure) or keycloak. It is very difficult, to verify such tokens in RPGLE. Yes, there are APIs like qc3verifysignature. But it ...
about 1 year ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Not under consideration

PowerVC Support With NetApp Storage

Banking customer has deployed NetApp (FAS8080) storage with AFF & FAS controllers. Currently CBS is deployed on AFF. And they are evaluating IBM Power8 E880 Systems for Core banking Software (Finacle 10.x).
over 6 years ago in PowerVC 5 Future consideration

Allow the size of the rule pane within Rule Wizard to be more adjustable for visibility and ease of use.

This would be useful when managing rules within QRadar as this is the main medium for tuning. All QRadar users would benefit from this change as they would better be able to view all test definitions while being able to edit them at the same time....
8 months ago in Cloud Management Console 0 Submitted

Publish API(s) to perform the work done via CLI command powervc-edit-scg

For automation. And not needing elevated access to OSI.
6 months ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Prevent vNIC Port Flapping

We recognized that SR-IOV / vNIC implementation have a different behaviour when the physical link is having problems. This leads to flapping adapters in some cases. Shared Ethernet Adapters (SEA) have different kind of parameters to configure to p...
about 2 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Under review

Insert/delete rows in Run SQL Scripts

Run SQL Scripts needs the ability to insert and delete rows in a result set (similar to the existing ability to edit rows). Use Case: This would be used for data maintenance. Presently the only option available in Run SQL Scripts is to write indiv...
about 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Future consideration

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