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255 VOTE

Add BRMS & AJS to the new Navigator for i

The New Navigator for i is brilliant. Today we are forced to use the heritage Navigator for i if we want to maintain BRMS and the Advanced Job Scheduler. BRMS and AJS need to be part of the New Navigator for i as soon as possible, removing the nee...
about 2 years ago in IBM i / System Management 19 Delivered
339 VOTE

RDi Lite, RDi Premium

RDi Lite, RDi Pro, RDi Premium versions needed Use Case: Right now the RDi pricing makes management hesistant in allocating budget as they can't see the ROI on it. To make them see it, we need the Lite version. It should be free and should basic f...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 49 Delivered

Make the NEW IBM i Navigator the Default for Admin port 2001

IBM has now provided a NEW and VAAAASSTLY Improved Navigator for i. BUT It is NOT THE DEFAULT! This makes it the best kept secret of the current Update Cycle Use Case: It's Better and It MUST become the default for https:/<Server name>:2001 ...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / System Management 11 Delivered
222 VOTE

Request about Printing forms with ruled line on ACS.

■Description & BackgroundOn IBM i Access for Windows or Pcomm,it is possible to output forms to the printer by a GDI printing capability of a windows printer session.But that is not possible on ACS. On ACS, for printing forms with ruled line,i...
about 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 5 Delivered

AIX ftpd to use ciphers that need ECDH key exchange

To use FTP in a secure way, the ftpd daemon may use openssl ciphers (FTPS). But modern TLS 1.3 ciphers provided by openssl 1.1 using ECDH key exchange are not possible to be used with the ftpd. These new ciphers should be supported by the ftpd.
almost 3 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

%split() should return an empty element where a separator character follows another separator character

In %split() if a separator character follows another separator character, it is ignored. For example, %SPLIT('abc..def' : '.') returns an array with two elements: ('abc','def'). It would be nice if it was possible that an empty element could be re...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 4 Delivered

Implement qsys2.Http_get for blob file

I think then the new sql function for http_get are really interesting, fast and above all there isn't java! I started use it instead of systools funcion, but I need an http_get that allow me download binary files like .zip . Please implement it! M...
about 2 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 10 Delivered
148 VOTE

SQL prompting in ACS

The new SQL tool in ACS make so much more sense than the old STRSQL - however, the prompt feature from the STRSQL where schemas, tables, columns can be selected from drop-down to construct SQL statements is really missing in the new ACS. Use Case:...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 6 Delivered

Add SmartDR control functions to SRDF file sets for PowerHA

Currently we have customer applications which have servers with PowerHA installed using SVC SAN storage. I am managing the migration from SVC SAN storage to EMC PMAX SAN Storage which includes a new feature called SmartDR (AKA MetroDR) fromDell-EM...
over 3 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 3 Delivered
105 VOTE

Maintenance capabilities for vNIC Failover

In order to make preparations for maintenance activities (e.g. VIOS updates) more efficient in setups with vNIC failover, it would be helpful to have a new HMC capability that allows to switch all active backing devices from a selected VIOS to the...
almost 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Delivered