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Line-displacement when using HEX-Values (Windows 7)

A number of hex code characters that represent 5250 display attributes are commonly inserted into comment lines of source members. These characters would usually be rendered by client operating systems as a square box or other special symbol. Star...
about 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 6 Delivered

Add HMC to CMC overview for systems

Please add all types of HMC (Physical and virtual) to the CMC in the overview of systems
over 4 years ago in Cloud Management Console 2 Delivered

IBM i Search (CTRL-H) running in background

I wish the IBM i search (CTRL-H) would run in the background, just like the outline does. That way, we could continue to work while the search is in progress. We could even launch multiple search at once. I'm still using FNDSTRPDM and option 25 in...
over 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 7 Delivered

Commaon Dashboard for LPAR's using Navigator for I

Requesting for an enhancement in IBM I Access Client Solutions. IBM I Access is blessed with an option Navigator for I where we can do many useful functions using the browser and one of the options is " Dashboard" view where we can monitor the sys...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / System Management 3 Delivered

PowerVC not adding tape fiberchannel adapter wwpn in host configuration on storage

When PowerVC attaches virtual fiber channel adapters to a vm that connect to a dedicated fabric to tape, PowerVC add the wwpns from theses adapters to the host storage definition in SVC/Storwize. Since these wwpns will never be used to access disk...
over 6 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

VPM autostart of hosted partition from the NWSD

Enable autostart capability for i-hosting-i partitions from the Network Server Description when using Virtual Partition Manager (VPM). With an HMC managed system, a hosted partition can be started/IPL'ed by varying on the host NWSD with power cont...
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 6 Delivered

Modernize host server by IP routing functionality

I would like to see the older capability to route by IP address modernized and enhanced. In i7.3 (and TRs for 7.1 and 7.2), new functionality was added to route host server jobs by the user name, managed entirely using SQL Stored Procedures. (Refe...
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 5 Delivered

Please, port "jq" command to IBM i

Please, port "jq" command to IBM i OSS / YUM so we can parse JSON using scripting. Use Case: We could use jq to transform JSON files into CSV
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 2 Delivered

search tabs

ACS RSS - Allow for search across tabs.
over 2 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Delivered

Keyboard operation to push buttons needs to be unchanged in ACS Session Manager

Keyboard operation to push buttons needs to be unchanged in ACS Session Manager. ACS 1.1.8.3 or later requires Ctrl + Enter key for push button operation while 1.1.8.2 or earlier accepted just Enter. A large customer here deploys ACS with RPA solu...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered

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