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Allow Simplified HMC based Remote Restart to recreate LPAR on target system even with reduced paths to the LUN

Simplified HMC based Remote Restart is currently not successful if the check on the target system results in a reduced number of paths to the LUN. This is the case with a HyperSwap configuration in the event of a data center failure (storage and s...
7 months ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

Enable options(*exact) for indicators.

I am the developer of RPGUNIT and recently I added procedure assertEqual() to it. This procedure handles all data types, because it uses the OVERLOAD keyword for delegating the call to the procedure that is in charge for the data type. dcl-pr asse...
5 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 2 Under review

IBM Cloud CLI option for IBM i

It would be great to have an IBM Cloud CLI ported to IBM i. This would allow to run snapshots, exports or queries to the cloud billing without living IBM i LPAR. I can also imagine some kind of orchestration between on-premise and cloud LPARs.
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 0 Under review

Navigator add own monitor

In Navigator there is the ability to define monitors that are managed directly by the system and are based on certain metrics such as free disk space capacity, CPU usage, etc. In addition, there is the ability to monitor message queues, defining m...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / System Management 0 Submitted

AIX community edition for QEMU/KVM

AIX will remain the leading UNIX operating system for mission-critical environments for many years to come. It has performance, security and ease of administration features that make it a very interesting option for new deployments complementing t...
11 months ago in AIX 1 Under review

AS400 servers availability monitoring

We have added the AS400 servers in monitoring as remotely in agent configuration.yaml file. now we want to monitor the AS400 server status(availability). additionally if iSeries server goes down or not reachable from agent then alert should be tri...
9 days ago in IBM i / Other 0 Submitted

watsonx and Openshift.ai support on Power. Early Acces Program (Beta testing)

We do have a potentially big oppy in Spain in INDRA. They work for Minitry of Defense and they are starting a project to deal with RADAR imaging where they want to use AI but, given the confidential characteristics of the data, they are promoting ...
5 months ago in Power Ecosystem Software / Government (includes education) 3 Future consideration

vnicserver device needs to signal to phyp when it's shutting down to avoid network outage

Environment:Power9 server with vios 3.1.3.21 pair which host vnicserver devices with backing sriov adapters for the vnic client devices in failover configuration Problem:During shutdown/reboot of the vio server that hosts the active vnicserver dev...
about 2 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Future consideration
307 VOTE

*ESCAPE messages for SAVLIB

We have received MONMSG for CPF3795 in every SAVLIB running in our CL program: https://ecurep.mainz.de.ibm.com/rest/download/28061%2C100%2C838/2018-04-06/28061.100.838.SOURCE.txt?astext=true&fileSize=83568 But, when CPF3795 is reported saving ...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 5 Not under consideration

Allow VM Recovery Manager HA to recreate LPAR on target system even with reduced paths to the LUN

VM Recovery Manager HA is currently not successful if the check on the target system results in a reduced number of paths to the LUN. This is the case with a HyperSwap configuration in the event of a data center failure (storage and server failure...
7 months ago in VM Recovery Manager 0 Submitted

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