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IBM i

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Request an alternate SMTP Banner for native mail server

When using native SMTP services to send mail from our ERP application, we have SMTP bound to a it's own IP address. That IP address and name resides in the local host table. However, when using DNS tools to validate the server on the Internet, a w...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Networking 3 Not under consideration

DB2 SQL join with USING need to support nullable column

I have a problem with a JOIN when columns are nullable. summary: I ask for an correction of the USING feature : in the sql engine do a IS NOT DISTINCT FROM when the column is nullable, so USING will do its job. details: for a better explanation, y...
about 2 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Not under consideration

Future price update should be reflected on e-Config

We see quite many price increase or decrease announcements with future effective date, but e-Config always output the price as of today. We want to have some mechanism in e-Config to specify the "as of date" in order to reflect the updated future ...
about 2 years ago in IBM i / Install and Upgrade and Licensing 1 Under review

Allow multiple "system" reply lists

The system reply list is very useful for supplying automatic responses to messages, but occasionally a certain reply is only valid for a certain purpose, and not safe to set globally. Please create a QAQQINI setting that overrides the "system" rep...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 3 Not under consideration

When positionning from error view do not automaticaly select text in editor

In RD Power, when there are compile errors they are shown in the Error list view. When we double-click on an error in that list, the editor is positionned to the line, column of the error.The code in error is also selected.However we find that it ...
over 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 6 Not under consideration

SSL/TLS Secure connection indicator for other apps in ACS

The 5250 Emulator shows the SSL/TLS Connection and cert information, it would be nice to have the same type of indicator for the other ACS apps. Run SQL Scripts, Printer Output, etc.. Just an added warm and fuzzy to see and ensure the connection i...
about 1 year ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

Add Lynx Browser to YUM repository

Please, add Lynx Browser to the IBM i YUM repository Use Case: Besides we can browse the web using Lynx, we can also convert HTML to TXT data using the "-dump" option.
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 2 Not under consideration

Custom screen size

Provide an option for custom screen size.Example:Colum: 25Row: 25 Use Case: Using ACS over VNC with small devices like mobilphones.
over 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

Ability to automate mass spool file downloads

I would like a command line plug-in to be able to specify a library/outq name and a folder path and have the ability to download all the spool files in that outq to the folder path. It would also be helpful if there was a switch to download as PDF...
about 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Future consideration

SMBv2 support needed in IBM i 7.1

Customer scan and find a network risk for SMBv1. Refe to http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=101946 SMBv2 is supported on V7R2 .but V7R1 still notNow customer use R710 . for network security concern. custoemr s...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 3 Not under consideration

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