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When granting authority to the IFS with Navigator for i allow authority to propagate down

in Navigator for i, when you right click > permissions on a IFS directory and add/change authority or add/change a user and its authority, any change to the ifs directory effects only top level directory. Please add the option to propagate the ...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / System Management Delivered

Add the HTML documentation options from the Heritage Navigator for i to the new BRMS HTTP server

In the Heritage Navigator for i BRMS gui section several options were available to create documentation. Those options did generate HTML documents. The quality of those HTML document was high. Allowing you to add them to your own BRMS documentatio...
4 months ago in IBM i / BRMS Delivered

Added security options in WRKOBJBRM to prevent accidental restores to the original library

Request Description: When using the WRKOBJBRM command in BRMS, selecting option 7 = Objects to restore, followed by option 1 = Select, results by default in a restoration into the original library, with the parameter: Restore library: *SAVLIB This...
4 months ago in IBM i / BRMS Delivered

PowerVC running EOL MongoDB 5.0 embedded database

Current PowerVC levels 2.2 and 2.3 both are running at MongoDB version 5.0 which is EOL as of October 31 2024. Please add latest version of the mongoDB to PowerVC versions 2.2 and 2.3
5 months ago in PowerVC Delivered

Bold the column headings on the second (or subsequent) sheets that are appended into a workbook when using /plugin:CLdownload with /update flag

When the spreadsheet is initially created, the column headings (labels) are bolded in Sheet1. However, when Sheet2 is added using the /sheet=2 and /update flags, the column headings are NOT bold.
6 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family Delivered

A toggle to turn off the Exploded SQL Statement Text (aka "the text BLOB") in Plan Cache Statements

Often times, when I'm in PCS, the SQL text block is displayed for the statement even though I'm not purposely looking at the statement itself. This "blob" of a text box stays present restricting my view of other columns I am trying to look at it -...
6 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family Delivered

When renewing Digital Certificate using the DCM API QycdRenewCertificate associated SANs should be included in the CSR

Renewing Digital Certificate using the DCM API QycdRenewCertificate. When the CSR is created, it is only putting the base CN on the CSR request. The other SANs that are on the certificate that is being renewed are not included in the CSR. If the C...
7 months ago in IBM i / Security Delivered

Eliminate / Upgrade Obsolete C++2013 from IBM i ACS

We recently downloaded the IBM i Access Client Solutions: Application Packages provided by AS 400 support for the iSeries\Genius connections under the subjected project. However, we found that there are some out of support software (C++ 2013) whic...
8 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family Delivered

Add ability to output JSON elements/keypairs and objects on separate rows.

Using SQL to output data in JSON format, the output is presented all on one line. When debugging, this is very difficult to work with. The request is to be able to split the 1 line into 1 keypair per line. The guide says too use the escape sequenc...
8 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i Delivered

Allow LDAP (non-)SSL to be enabled/disabled from the Navigator interface

Currently assigning a certificate via DCM enables SSL for the LDAP server, however it is not possible to alter the non-SSL/SSL checkboxes afterwards. Instead one is required to manually edit the IFS configuration file at '/qibm/userdata/os400/dirs...
8 months ago in IBM i / System Management Delivered

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