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Urgent support for Power HA System Mirror for IBM i of the new IBM Spectrum Virtualize function Policy-based HA (the new Hyperswap function)

With the last announcements of IBM storage, the IBM Spectrum Virtualize Software is enhanced with the new functions based on Policy-based HA (the new Hyperswap function). The PowerHA system mirror for i, today doesn't support this new function and...
6 months ago in IBM i / PowerHA 2 Submitted

Possibility to create IFS objects filters

Because many sources for IBM objects e.g programs, commands can be stored in IFS directories, it would be good to have possibility to define IFS directories and files filters like ones available for objects.
5 months ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Future consideration

Monitor > System monitor on more nodes

In the old Client Access it was possible to have more nodes on the same system monitor grafic. (see the attach). in the new Navigator for I, we only can see grafics for single node in different windows.
2 months ago in IBM i / System Management 1 Submitted
143 VOTE

Dynamically editable min/max fields when LPAR gets shut down

When you are on a partitions memory configuration section and the partition is running you can only change the allocated value and the min/max values are greyed out. When the partition is then shut down the min/max values should be editable but th...
over 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Future consideration
123 VOTE

HMC Performance Dashboard shows different calculated graphs depending if the LPAR is in Shared-Pool and Dedicated Mode

At the moment the HMC Performance Dashboard is using a different calculation method - depending on the LPAR using Shared-Pool or Dedicated-Donating Mode - to display the CPU utilization graph without any hint of these differences. Both graphs are ...
about 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Future consideration

If there is an application monitor installed e. g. that runs every 5 minutes it doesn't reflect the status to the clavan.log.

If there is an application monitor installed e. g. that runs every 5 minutes it doesn't reflect the status to the clavan.log. So, if there are no log entries the clavan cmd says "clavan: Not able to analyze application availability because both th...
2 months ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Submitted

ACS Run SQL script and prompting for statement variables. Support predefined and default values.

In ACS version 1.1.9.2 support for prompting statement variables with the use of ? or a variable name starting with : was introduced. Ref: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/ibm-i-75-tr2-enhancements This is great. Prompting for a statement v...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Future consideration

Enhance the 5250 console support provided by the HMC (remote) to support 132-column display.

For a limited function IBM i LPAR (such as an FSFC target) where, for security reasons the only advisable interactive connection is via an HMC console, having a 132 column screen would provide an immeasurable benefit in viewing 132 position spoole...
about 2 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

Request for the additional parameter/function for detaching DDM from LVM Mirror

・Requested function: - I want to request a timeout parameter to enable users to adjust IO timeout to detach each hdisk from LVM Mirror configuration. - I want to request a function that enables a detachment of a DDM under LVM Mirror, in case its I...
over 1 year ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

reconnect buttom in RSS of ACS

Workaround for lost connection issue
29 days ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Functionality already exists

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