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Optimizing SEU Usage: Balancing System Administration Needs and Developer Progress

The justification for keeping SEU in the operating system is that system administrators need it to modify CL programs while in restricted state. However, maintaining SEU hinders developers from transitioning to modern, more efficient development t...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Application Development 2 Functionality already exists

Enhance the Query Supervisor for temporary storage thresholds to also apply to the *DATABASE temporary storage buckets

We have had several rogue queries that used very large amounts of temporary storage. We have query supervisor thresholds in place, but it did not alert us because the temporary storage was not part of the job itself, but rather the database tempor...
26 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Functionality already exists

DCM *SYSTEM store password in admin-cust.xml files

In the security configuration files from ADMIN application servers (ADMIN1, ADMIN3, ....) the *SYSTEM store password is weakly encoded with {xor} and is easy to obtain if you have access to admin-cust.xml file in /QIBM/UserData/OS/ADMININST/[admin...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Security 1 Future consideration

Provide signature files for HIPER efixes

Currently HIPER fixes have no signature files for the efix packages. Other efixes have .sig files so that those efixes can be verified after download, and installed via the "new" efix_sec AIX command. Security issue: for HIPER fixes is even more i...
4 months ago in AIX 2 Planned for future release

There is a risk that the ethchan_config command may mistakenly change the IP address of enX interface.

Please Improve the specification of the ethchan_config command. ethchan_config should check the target device. The ethchan_config command can change the "netaddr" parameter of entX and set the address to ping of EtherChannel. However, the ethchan_...
4 months ago in AIX 0 Under review

Allow for Synchronous Policy Based Replication (PBR) on IBM Storwize

With the recent version of IBM Storwize, metro mirror - synchronous replication - is no longer available for IBM i. This version allows for policy based replication (PBR) or policy based High-Availability (PBHA), both asynchronous. In order to get...
4 months ago in IBM i / Storage 4 Not under consideration
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Provide sum of energy consumed and system temperature to HMC

Energy and environmental aspects are getting more and more into focus when discussing datacenter efficiency The Power High-End (in a minimum P10 and future and maybe P9 as well) systems should be enabled to expose temperature and energy charts th...
over 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

Moving load source concurrently

The idea is based on the ability to be able to copy (and thus move) the load source from one disk to another without the need for downtime. The operating system is already capable of initializing and moving data from one disk to another without do...
2 months ago in IBM i / Storage 2 Submitted

Possibility to use generic message ID's on ON-EXCP section in MONITOR group

It would be very useful to have ability to use generic message ID's e.g CPF0000, CPF9800 in ON-EXCP op-code within MONITOR group. This should be similar to CL's MONMSG functionality in terms of generic message ID's monitoring.
4 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 1 Future consideration

Tools do assist with Spatial/GIS data on DB2 for i

When dealing with spatial data, it is quite common to use tools and/or products that assist in the manipulation and loading of this data. Even within the DB2 family (LUW and z/OS), there is the DB2 Spatial Extender which enables the import and man...
15 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 0 Submitted

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