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Native ODBC parameter for trimming whitespace

When querying tables that contain fixed-length CHAR columns, the values that are returned retain their whitespace. Thus, a value like 'Acme Industries, Inc.' might take the form of 'Acme Industries, Inc. ' if the column is defined as 30 characters...
about 5 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 2 Delivered

Enhancements To Navigator For i

In Navigator for i can the following enhancements be made; 1.) A clocking indicator when a task is running so that you know the Navigator is working on the task. 2.) I field can be added to User Maintenance that shows whether the user is enabled o...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / System Management 3 Delivered

AIX Live Kernel Update - autofs support

AIX Live Update doesn't work on systems with mounts of the type "autofs" although these are just created by the automount daemon and do not affect any critical issue for Live Update.
almost 8 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

ACS Schema Browser - Allow for re-arranging columns

One issue we have run into many times is re-arranging columns in a table (due to table refactorings over time only allowing adding columns to end of table). Other database platforms allow for simple, 15 second changes that allow you to re-order co...
about 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered

SQL enhancement - allow mixed case in unqualified external names

Please allow the use of mixed case in unqualified external names when defining stored procedures or user defined (table) functions. Currently it is not possible to specify an unqualified external name where the routine name is in mixed case. The f...
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Delivered

Set the OK button as the default action on ACS Window Setup Panel

In the ACS "Windows Setup" screen please make the OK Button the default action when pressing the enter key. And while yer fixin that can you make it so that the "Window Setup" list is actually cleared? They live forever until ACS is restarted. See...
about 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Delivered

PowerVC advanced user role without deleting capability

We are trying to onboard/manage all existing PowerVM Hosts/VMs under PowerVC. Now every user role which can make change can also do delete VM including volumes. This is a potential disaster when we want our Tier-1 system admin team use PowerVC ins...
almost 6 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

Update IBM i JDK/PASE Products Not To Use IPv6 If Only IPv4 TCP Interfaces Exist

Currently, the IBM i Java Development Kit/Portable Application Solutions Environment products attempt to use IPv6 even if an IPv6 TCP Interface is not defined or usable on the IBM i server. As a result, Java TCP/IP Host Resolution Performance Issu...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / JAVA 2 Delivered

git clone https needs curl-devel

To git clone a public repo without authentication requires going the https route, as shown below. % git clone https://aaronbartell@bitbucket.org/litmis/ibmichroot.gitCloning into 'ibmichroot'...fatal: Unable to find remote helper for 'https' That ...
about 8 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 3 Delivered

PowerVC Self-service VM deploy scheduling

PowerVC is being deployed in a leading Bank in India. Customer wants VMs to be created at a certain time of the day as per bank's process. Currently, VM gets created immediately after selfservice request is approved. Customer wants an option to sp...
over 7 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

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