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iACS Ability to change passwords for multiple systems

Password management in iACS - allow for the changing of one or more system passwords at one time Use Case: In iACS - "Systems Configurations" does not give you the ability to change any passwords. This request would be for the following: - Add a "...
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered

Access Client Solutions - What AcsConfig.properties is being used?

If you have more than one AcsConfig.properties file in the system how can you see in ACS what AcsConfig.properties is being used by ACS? It is easy to get information about the version of ACS and Java in the Help - Product information. Use Case: W...
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Delivered

Number of elements in a compile time array (CTDATA) should be determined at compile time

It happens that I have to use compile time arrays in programs. And every time I have to define the array with a fixed number of entries and have to remember to modify it if I add or remove an element in the CTDATA part. I would like to have the po...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 6 Delivered

hdisk name related to alt_disk_copy and bosboot

IBM should NOT permit altdiskcopy to run to disk names that are NOT supported by bosboot. Request fix via any method below:1. Update altdiskcopy to FAIL if disk name used is unsupported by bosboot.2. Update bosboot to support any disk name.3. Publ...
over 3 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

Download .MBR files doesn't convert to ASCII

When using "Integrated File system" program and I download a member file from /QSYS.LIB/AWPDEV.LIB/qrpglesrc.file, the resulting file isn't in ASCII and is unreadable. If I try to view the file it crashes the entire Client Solutions program and no...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 9 Delivered

Provide buffer length of LOB columns in SYSCOLUMNS2 view

When processing I/U/D entries from a journal using the DISPLAY_JOURNAL we need to "map" the entry specific data over the record layout. The amount of space occupied by a LOB column varies; depending upon where in the record the column starts. So t...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 5 Delivered

HMC - Check network setting before checking for system LIC upgrades

when checking for Power server LIC upgrades, HMC reported "No updates available on IBM Service web site". As we upgraded a different server on an other HMC there was some confusion.After some checking we found the HMC DNS/IP routing settings were ...
almost 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 5 Delivered

Let QSYS2.GENERATE_SQL also generate the system name for SQL global variable

Currently the QSYS2.GENERATE_SQL() procedure does not generate the FOR SYSTEM NAME part when it generates the source for an SQL Global Variable. When a variable is recreated based on the output of this procedure it will generate a system name, whi...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Delivered

Variable renaming

Automatic renaming of a variable, datastructure, subprocedure, and other relevant items in all of its appearances Use Case: User renames a variable using a refactoring option such as the one available for java code. The renaming marks all the vari...
over 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Delivered

Add new POLLEXCL flag for poll() function to solve thundering herd problem. Flag logic like EPOLLEXCLUSIVE for linux epoll()

We have developed multiprocessing middleware named Enduro/X, where several processes may listen for messages on several ipc queues (SystemV for example). Processes are using poll() to wait for event in some queue. Work on queues may be load balanc...
over 4 years ago in AIX 8 Delivered