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reduce caching which might result in "config has been changed by other operation" message

this might be worth a ticket, but also can be caused be framework: in about 25% of the cases i work with system or LPAR properties, the attached message (German: "Die Konfiguration wurde durch eine andere Operation geändert. Aktualisieren Sie die ...
about 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 6 Not under consideration

QSYSMSG - Array rebuild start and complete messages

We have a program that monitors the QSYSMSG message queue to alert us to critical issues on our system. When a DASD device fails with mirrored protection, the system sends CPI0949 when protection is suspended and CPI0989 when the resume is complet...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / Storage 3 Not under consideration

Virtualization of crypto on AIX

Virtualization of crypto adapter for System p similar to what System z has today.
over 10 years ago in AIX 6 Not under consideration

Display Message File Constants in Screen Designer

Our team uses Rational Developer for a lot of RPG programming associated with display files and related text from multiple spoken languages (Spanish, English, French, etc). We would like Rational Developer's Screen Designer 'Preview' and 'Design' ...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Not under consideration

Allow value selection on command prompting

When prompting on a command, it might show a number of well known values, or present a list from a choice program, however the value must always be typed in again. It would be easier if the option was offered to select one of these values by posit...
about 5 years ago in IBM i / Languages - CL (Control Language) 2 Not under consideration

XML-INTO: Add new option to clear DS before loading

Add an option to XML-INTO that clears the DS before parsing the XML data into the DS. This option should work similarly to EVAL and other "assignment-type" functions.Data Structures are typically used to temporarily store XML data prior to taking ...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 3 Not under consideration

CRTDUPOBJ command update a status file or periodically send a message to the job log that indicates the percent complete

There isn't an interface to the CRTDUPOBJ command that allows us to monitor the status, nothing found in Advanced analysis too, So have the CRTDUPOBJ command update a status file or periodically send a message to the job log that indicates the per...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 4 Not under consideration

"Although the 'prtgblconfig -s ERRMSGCONTROL=ALLOFF' setting can be used to prevent informative messages from being written t

"Although the 'prtgblconfig -s ERRMSGCONTROL=ALLOFF' setting can be used to prevent informative messages from being written to user terminals, qdaemon will still (by it's usage of the systell/sysmsg functions) write messages to /dev/console, and I...
about 5 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

QID 11 Hidden RPC Service

QID = 11 Title=Hidden RPC Service Severity=2Impact = Unauthorized users can build a list of RPC services running on the host. If they discover vulnerable RPC services on the host, they then can exploit them.Threat= The Portmapper/Rpcbind listens o...
almost 8 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

BRMS Enterprise Services

BRMS Enterprise Services - Seems to be issues with the way the node policy works and developers notice issues but developers are stating the product is working as design. Node policy is running for all partitions in the environment although they a...
about 5 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 2 Not under consideration

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