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    ACS - Database Table Functions

    Allow me to edit the contents of a table from the ACS Database context. I can View, Clear, Copy, Initialize and Reorganize Data but not Edit the content. Use Case: This option is heavily used by our database administrators in order to view and man...
    almost 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Not under consideration

    Addition of Input Modules and Message Modification Modules to AIX rsyslog

    We request the compilation of AIX rsyslog with the mmnormalize, impstats, immark, mmcount and mmjsonparse modules. This is necessary for our production and homologation servers. https://www.rsyslog.com/normalizer-first-steps-for-mmnormalize/ Input...
    12 months ago in AIX 0 Submitted

    Add Linux systemd support to AIX

    The Linux distributions moved away from using inittab. All new linux distributions and applications are using systemd now.
    almost 3 years ago in AIX 4 Future consideration

    Introduce "generic" full & easily machine parsable output for AIX commands

    Command part of "list" category (lsvg, lslv, lssyscfg, lsdev, lsattr, ....) provide the entry point to capture configuration of AIX OS.Allowing all theses kind of commands to provide "full & easily machine parsable output" using flag (like alr...
    almost 6 years ago in AIX 5 Not under consideration

    ACS live editor

    Using many tools that make use of SFTP and related, it is possible to go and edit objects in the ifs in real time. Given the new features it would be interesting to implement this change on ACS as well, so that it would be more complete since now ...
    8 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Not under consideration

    iACS - HOD

    we have done a network installation of iACS inside our IFS with restricted access for functions like "run SQL-Scripts". Our Users can only see the 5250-Emulator and their SPLFs. We have entered the restrictions inside the AcsConfig.properties-file...
    almost 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

    AIX, VIOS and HMC Lifecycle Information API

    Dear Team, Looks like there is no API available to fetch table data from the below VIOs and AIX pages. It would be a nice to have feature, If there is an API available similar to FLRT API. https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/powervm-vios-lifecycle-i...
    almost 2 years ago in AIX 1 Planned for future release

    ACS - HMC 5250 System Console - ability to set a default host code page and also set a default language/country on the "Welcome to Remote 5250 Console" screen.

    When using the HMC Probe utility to open a new ACS HMC 5250 system console, the host code page always defaults to 037 even if the default.hod session profile ("<documents>\IBM\iAccessClient\OpCon\Sessions\hmc\<hmc_hostname>\s\default.h...
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Not under consideration

    Add Transfer Data Rate to ACS IFS file Upload/Download interface

    The addition of a Data rate transfer information is useful telemetry data for IBM i SysAdmins and Networking specialists. The addition of this calculation (in addition to the simple percentage complete) data would help to monitor, diagnose and res...
    6 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

    Automatic Disk space reclamation option for alt_rootvg_op command

    When freeing up saved rootvg with alt_rootvg_op command it would be very helpful to add an additional option for doing automatic space reclamation to the disk subsystem where the alt_rootvg resides on.
    over 4 years ago in AIX 0 Planned for future release

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