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A SQL view to display the information on a line

A view or function that provides information as in the DSPLIND command or the API More here : https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.6.0?topic=ssw_ibm_i_76/apis/QDCRLIND.html
about 8 hours ago in IBM i / Networking 0 Submitted

PowerVC: Define concurrent deploy limits

PowerVC provides recommendations to set concurrent deploy limits here https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/powervc-cloud/2.3.0?topic=powervc-planning-performance yet there is no cloud policy in PowerVC to enforce such limits, in multi-tenant environments i...
1 day ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

Setting SVC Site attribute for VMs dependant on PowerVC Host Site

We are using a SVC stretched cluster between two datacenters with one storage pool per datacenter in the SVC backend as our main storage in PowerVC. Dependant of the datacenter location of a VM we assign storage via "Storage Template" from the sam...
12 days ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

Add a compiler directive to emit a message to the compiler listing

Under special circumstances it can be useful to add a user defined warning or error to the compiler listing - even to the extend, that a module should not compile. A new compiler directive "/MESSAGE" should be introduced like this: /IF NOT DEFINED...
about 8 hours ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 0 Submitted

Allow checking multiple defined conditions with one /IF compiler directive

Checking multiple defined conditions is cumbersome - if a part of code should only be combined when two conditions are defined, one has to use nested /IF directives: /IF DEFINED(condition1) /IF DEFINED(condition2) // code only compiled when condit...
about 8 hours ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 0 Submitted

Allow VIOS/Novalink as proxy for RMC connection (auto-discovery?)

In our case the HMC does not have an RMC connection to the AIX and Linux LPARs due to our networking setup; it DOES have an RMC connection to the Virtual I/O Servers, which in turn have an RMC connection to Novalink, which acts as the managing ins...
4 days ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Planned for future release
136 VOTE

Link Aggregation NIC adapter replacement without service interruption

When replacing a NIC that is part of an Ethernet Link Aggregation configuration, it is necessary to temporarily disable the Line description on IBMi OS. As a result, the IP address is deactivated, making a service outage unavoidable.Although Power...
5 months ago in IBM i / Networking 3 Submitted

Add an HTTP status code for SQL not found

When deploying a REST web service based on SQL queries, it is possible to specify an HTTP status code for success (200 by default) and another for error (500 by default). However, when reading datas by an SQL select and a WHERE clause (e.g., sele...
18 days ago in IBM i / Web Serving 2 Submitted
247 VOTE

Machine pool minimum size setting for path switch.

Please refer to TS005543906(CritSit(MEC)) . The system is configured with multi-path storage via SAN switch. The serious problem (5250 telnet terminals dropped) happened when the system did path switch. It was because the lack of machine pool and ...
10 months ago in IBM i / Storage 4 Not under consideration

SQL function for CVE currency

Customers need a way to audit compliance with IBM i CVEs. Each CVE is published with a corresponding patch from IBM. A SQL function similar to PTF currency will give customers the ability to check the patch status for all CVEs published by IBM. Th...
2 months ago in IBM i / Security 9 Submitted

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