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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 ...
about 2 months ago in Power Ecosystem Software / Government (includes education) 3 Future consideration

Table that contains the QAUDJRN journal entry type descriptions

It would be useful to have a table, if one does not already exist, that contains the QAUDJRN journal entry descriptions. This would be very useful to be able to use to get the description using a join to the AUDIT_JOURNAL_xx & DISPLAY_JOURNAL....
3 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 6 Future consideration

Use page 1, line 1 as the starting position when using a PRTF to create a spooled file

When following the documentation at the link below, the spooled file that gets created has a starting position of page 1, line 6. This causes issues when using different form types to print the documents with the new spooled file. https://www.ibm....
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Print 1 Future consideration

Allow reuse of QSQSVR prestart jobs for multithread jobs running embedded SQL in server mode

Please allow release of QSQSVR prestart jobs back to the pool upon thread termination for embedded SQL (SQLRPGLE) running in server mode in multithread capable jobs. Currently, when a multithreaded job running in server mode (set by QWTCHGJB) spaw...
2 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Future consideration

Policy-based High Availability (HA) support in PowerVC

Policy-based High Availability (HA) provides a solution for two Storage Systems in different locations where the storage will automatically remain accessible to hosts if there is an event that impacts the infrastructure and makes one of the system...
5 months ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Add a flag to the Retrieve Command Definition (QCDRCMDD) API

We are using the API to get the command definition such as the Parameters with it's keywords and values. However if the command has a choice program, that program is executed. This can cause unexpected things to occur. In one example, the choice p...
16 days ago in IBM i / Application Development 1 Future consideration

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 1 month ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Future consideration
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Provide sum of energy consumed and system temperature to HMC

Energy and environmental aspects are getting more and more into focus when discussing datacenter efficiency The Power High-End (in a minimum P10 and future and maybe P9 as well) systems should be enabled to expose temperature and energy charts th...
about 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

%repeat as a BIF in RPGLE

Now we have the nice string function like %upper,() %lef(), %right() .. etc. and this is just great !! let's continue this toolbox for string functions: Just like the SQL scalar function REPEAT it would be appreciated to have the equivalent functi...
4 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 1 Future consideration

change *ALLOBJ authority needed to drop columns using the ACS schemas editing interface

When you change a table (drop a column) through the ACS grapical interface you need *ALLOBJ to do so.The reason is that ACS adds and removes an autoreply (needing *ALLOBJ) to handle the inquiry message to confirm the drop (data loss) CPA32B2.When ...
3 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Future consideration

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