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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...
8 months ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

EIM System User credential setup on the terminal screen.

EIM System User can be specified solely on the Navigator i GUI. This limitation makes impossible any automation to follow the security rules and change the password regularly according the security standards. Provide a command to change the passwo...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / System Management 0 Submitted

Enhance lsmpio showing both storages in an policy-based HA environment (mirroring)

In an AIX VM using a FS9500 environment with policy-based HA it is only possible with lsmpio to see the primary storage node of the mirroring relation in the FS9500. It should be possible to see both storages of that relation. This is especially i...
5 months ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

In QMGTOOLS see there is option 24 PTF management under that there is option 2 compaer HIPER PTF's from IBM. It would be nice to be able to compare any grouip PTF's list for exampe to comapre Security, Jave, DB2, CUM etc...suggest to have a option to compare a grou PTF then type in the group PTF number or have a option for each group PTF for that particular OS. That a way cusomer can get a complet list of PTF's that they will get.

We have customers that want to know which PTF's they will get when ordering any group PTF that is not up to date it is difficult to list find which PTF's that are not on they system befoe ordering the PTF's.
10 days ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 1 Submitted

Addition of Critical Security Patch Comparison Features via SQL Query

Currently, managing critical security patches is a major priority for IT teams to ensure the security of systems and sensitive data. However, the task of comparing applied security patches with known vulnerabilities listed in the CVE database can ...
6 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 4 Future consideration

For AJS, the notification message setting item cannot be set for double-byte characters.

This is an event when adding a job in AJS on the 5250 screen.The Notification Message item is set to type A, and double-byte characters cannot be set.Double-byte character input is important in Japanese environment. Please let us know how to solve...
4 months ago in IBM i / System Management 6 Not under consideration

Adding a new activation group parameter to CREATE or REPLACE VARIABLE

A C-ILE program is currently being created at CREATE VARIABLE, which runs with the activation group *CALLER. Therefore, the SET VARIBALE VALUE can only be used in the activation group in which the variable is used. By specifying a named activation...
20 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Future consideration

Enable in IBM i Navigator for i Monitors the option to press F4 to set the IBM i trigger command

I use and recommend the System & Messages Monitor from IBM Navigator for i. I think we can improve this tool adding the great F4 option to built the command in the trigger command. If I'm not wrong now I must built it on green screen and then ...
3 months ago in IBM i / System Management 2 Not under consideration

implement an ON/OFF function to force syncvg after takeover after a node failure occurs.

Implement an ON/OFF function to force syncvg after takeover after a node failure occurs. When a node failure occurs on the service machine and the shared disk created by AIX LVM mirror is taken over to the standby machine, syncvg is forced using t...
11 months ago in PowerHA for AIX 0 Submitted

Declare UTF-8 character lenght in SQL TABLE not in bytes

Currently, when I create a new table and declare a field, for example, of type CHAR(10) UTF-8, the system only allows for 10 characters if each character is 1 byte in size. If a character occupies 2 or more bytes, the field length is no longer suf...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Not under consideration

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