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CLOB Pointers in RPG Not Working

RPG A calls RPG B, passing pointer to CLOB. RPG B receives pointer, and uses it as base for CLOB there. Both compile. Both execute with no bombs. But based CLOB in RPG B does not reflect data in CLOB in RPG A. Use Case: Program A creates a CLOB an...
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 6 Is a defect

SSP copy volume from one cluster to another

I'm using 2 SSP clusters and I would like to have all my images volume available on both without need to re-install them from ISO. Actually a workaround exist creating free volume "dd" the first vol to /tmp, ftp this guy to other vios, and "dd" ba...
8 months ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Under review

RMC connection through NAT firewall

In an MSP environment there are multiple customers on one system with multiple VLANs. The VLANs are all behind a NAT firewall. From a management point of view, an LPAR should talk to the HMC over RMC through that NAT firewall. The issue in that en...
almost 5 years ago in AIX 3 Future consideration

Allow PTF's to be downloaded via HTTP instead of FTP or Download Director

Allow PTF's to be downloaded via HTTPS instead of FTP or Download Director. Some organizations do not allow access to external FTP sites and most Java browsers discourage use of Java applets. Allowing download via HTTPS will make it easier to acce...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 2 Future consideration

Request for a function to allow user to specify the number of sockets DPO(Dynamic Platform Optimizer) should consolidate an LPAR into instead of spreading out across all 4 sockets for large LPARs

We have optimized Power E1080 CPU/Memory affinity, try to consolidate each LPARs into 2 sockets, but failed. How to do it now? IBM responsible engineer feedback the following info.: The DPO (Dynamic Platform Optimizer) has a built-in algorithm whi...
6 months ago in Power Systems Design 1 Future consideration

Make VM search field search within ALL the VMs and not just the displayed ones (PowerVC 2.0.3)

In PowerVC 1.4.4, when using the search field in the VM List page, the search was done through the list of ALL VMs and not just the ones currently displayed. Right now in PowerVC 2.0.3, if you want the search to be effective you first have to make...
about 2 years ago in PowerVC 3 Future consideration

Consolidate ACS 5250 Display and TAB Preferences into one Tabbed Dialog

Currently we have: Edit->Preferences -> Tab SetupEdit->Preferences -> Appearance->Tab Appearance The first changes the Active Tab propertiesThe second changes the inactive Tab propertiesPlease place them on the same dialog and use t...
almost 3 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

IBM i OpenCV

In order to make effective use of python on IBM i, porting of OpenCV, which is growing in demand, is required Use Case: Improve business efficiency by performing systematic customer recognition using face recognition and systematic product inspect...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 2 Future consideration

Support an ADD MEMBER option on the GENERATE_SQL SQL Stored Procedure

Today if the output source file and member do not exist, the procedure fails. I think the proc should add/replace the data in the output member but also add the member if it does not exist.
2 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Future consideration

Add format level identifier to journal entries for database journaling

Today, journaling of database supply a lot of usefull information, but one is missing : the format level identifier, in other words, the description of the fields. Why do I need that ? Because sometimles I change a filed in a file. Then this file ...
2 months ago in IBM i / System Management 0 Submitted

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