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Increase ACS display size

The ACS emulator screen is so much smaller than the equivalent screen in Client Access on the same monitor and has a large blank area around it for no apparent reason. This makes the screen harder to see and the font used appears distorted (squash...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 6 Delivered

STRSST: Remove diskette data recovery

STRSST4. Work with diskette data recovery.Diskettes have not been supported in decades. Use Case: Improve customer perception that service tools are being verified as still fully functional and supported.
over 4 years ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 2 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.
about 8 years ago in AIX 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

HMC to generate alert email when UAK fails to be retrieved from IBM

If an HMC sends a request for new UAK (chsvcinfo) and IBM does not have record of an active entitlement, currently the process fails quietly. The only notification in an entry in the HMC event log. This failure is more significant than that, so sh...
about 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 4 Delivered

Modify AcsConfig.properties to add field name or field detail

when i transfert a data base file to xlsx with gui i can change heab columns of excel and chose field name or field detail . I want to automate my tranfert with commandline . can you add this propertie to AcsConfig.properties Thanks Use Case: java...
about 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 5 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...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered

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

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 ...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 3 Delivered

The relationships attribute of the HACMPsvcpprc HACMP ODM class can store character strings of a total length of 1024 chars

Current PowerHA configuration contains following limitations. The most important limitation is 1024 chars for SVC Metro Mirror relationships. This limitation is not set on number of Metro Mirror relations, but on number of chars. In client's big e...
over 4 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Delivered

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