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    in RUN SQL SCRIPT to have the ability to run scripts from GitLab

    We have a GitLab, and all our SQL scripts are stored in this GitLab. To run them in RUN SQL SCRIPT, we first need to download them to our PC. Would it be possible to have access to a URL to open the script directly in GitLab?
    3 days ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 0 Submitted

    Add SSH auto-tunneling to ACS so we can use a bastion server

    Please, add an automatic tunnel or transparent proxy option so we can connect to IBM i using a bastion server or SSH port. This could help developers or PoC users to connect to cloud or hosted LPARs (IBM Power Virtual Server or any other) without ...
    about 1 month ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Submitted

    Integrated File System tool: Allow us to change the size of the font

    In ACS's Integrated File System tool the font is too small. I want to be able, like I can in other ACS tools, adjust the size of the font.
    5 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

    LVM mirroring across VGs (enables eg. online FS migration from one vg to another)

    LVM is great and has been for decades. Many LVM manipulations can be done online without unmounting filesystems or stopping the applications, which is an advantage compared to other OS's. There are, however, still a few things that require to stop...
    18 days ago in AIX 0 Submitted

    Support LTO9 with SAS and FC direct attach on AIX

    There are many cases which it is necessary to backup AIX to external media. We and BPs have proposed RDX or LTO before, but we are now guided to propose only LTO. There are currently some problems on proposing LTO. Now AIX only supports LTO8 via S...
    8 months ago in AIX 0 Under review

    Run SQL Scripts: Remove redundant variable prompting

    When prompting for multiple substitution variables with same name, only prompt once.
    4 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 5 Future consideration

    `xargs` should support `-0`/`--null` parameter

    xargs on AIX currently does not implement -0. While this is not part of the POSIX standard ( AFAIK, please check), it is implemented by every other implementation, including FreeBSD's. While the OSS toolbox's implementation /opt/freeware/bin/xargs...
    about 2 months ago in AIX 0 Submitted

    IFS: Please add the box "Apply update to all files in selected folder and any subfolders" that is available in Properties to also Permissions.

    Please add the box "Apply update to all files in selected folder and any subfolders" that is available in Properties to also Permissions.
    about 2 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Future consideration

    IBM i Access ODBC driver query execution timeout

    My organization is using PHP/Laravel and the IBM i access odbc driver to connect to DB2. We have had a few scenarios where the php application sends a sql query and then waits indefinitely for the result, until PHP's max execution time kicks and k...
    11 days ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Submitted

    ACS - Spool Files Component - Allow defining outque residing in IASP library

    We have outque libraries that reside in SYSBAS as well as in the iASP. But using the ACS Spool Files component, we cannot get to our outque libraries in the IASP. Only in the SYSBAS libraries. Even though we created the spool files that are put in...
    25 days ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 0 Submitted

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