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The x86 image should also be provided for Nutanix, as more customers migrate from VMWare to Nutanix

Flexible IBM Power solutions for the customer
27 days ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

Enhance Dcl-Enum to be multilevel as Dlc-Ds

Dcl-Enum is very usefull but could be even better if provides multi-level definition as Dcl-Ds: Dcl-Enum Errors qualified; Dcl-Enum Severity; Info 'I'; Halt 'H'; End-Enum; Dcl-Enum Actions; Abort 'A'; Exit 'E'; End-Enum; End-Enum; Select RetCode; ...
4 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 0 Submitted

Make text copyable in RDi property dialogs

Make text copyable in RDi property dialogs so it is easier to copy & paste information such as job names, output queue, etc. Candidate dialogs: Job properties, debug properties, etc.
28 days ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 0 Submitted

Live Partition Mobility: Allow overrides of CPU and LPAR ID on target CEC

For hosted environments, moving a partition from P9 to P10, for example, is often not at CPU-for-CPU but at CPW-for-CPW (e.g. 15000 CPW = 1 CPU on a 9009-22a but not on a 9105-22a). And LPAR ID is automagically assigned.This is counter-productive,...
8 months ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 4 Submitted

Add user to SEP parameter so we can target another users job with that SEP

With the recent release of SEP support for Merlin and VS Code, it seems that they made it just use the user you connected to the IBM i with. In my product, we rarely (dare I say never) want to set an SEP on our current user. We need to 'catch' the...
about 1 year ago in IBM i / Application Development 1 Submitted

Have possibility to download PTFs via https

Hello, in our company we are forbidden to use java web start as it was marked as vulnerability and FTP connection is being slowly banned out as well. Would there be option (same as for fixes for other IBM products like storage etc) to use https fo...
3 months ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 0 Submitted

Upgrade level of OpenSSH from v8.6p1 to one which will pass scanning services.

We are getting dinged by Qualys that our IBM i is exposed to CVE-2023-51385. I have applied the fixes listed at https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7123159 however IBM only chose to patch an old level of OpenSSH instead of putting on a new leve...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 3 Submitted

Detailing environmental variables used by IBM products

It would be a great starting point having IBM list the environmental variables used for controlling additional application behavior allowing administrators the ability in some cases to control additional system behavior. eg QIBM_SMTP_FWDSVR_LCL_MAIL
3 months ago in IBM i / Documentation 2 Submitted

HMC’s, dashboard Flex capacity view for utilization for all defined Managed systems.

HMC’s, dashboard Flex capacity view for utilization for all defined Managed systems. This enhancement will provide a customer with the current status of the flex capacity utilization, which will make managing and decision making of moving capacity...
about 1 month ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

lshwres -r procpool -m <Managed System> command work as is for Power11 Systems

The command lshwres -r procpool -m <Managed System Name> for Power11 Systems will yield and error : "The command entered is either missing a required parameter or a parameter value is invalid. The parameters that are missing or have an inval...
about 2 months ago in PowerVM 0 Submitted

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