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When upload by ACS IFS Tools, CCSID is changed.

Please add a option ccsid on ACS IFS Tools. Use Case: When I upload files ( UTF-8) to IFS on power, ACS IFS Tools changed files character code to 1041.That's confused.
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered

Request for Data Transfer of ACS,allow extra columns automatically truncation and file uploading as with IAW even with ACS.

We are using IBM i Access for Windows(IAW) to upload CSV file and Excel file from PC to IBM i.We would like to do similar processing in IBM i Access Client Solutions(ACS). When number of columns of input file is more data than number of columns of...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered

lldp daemon to be implemented for all editions of AIX 7.x.

System: AIX 7.1, AIX 7.2Customer needs the lldp daemon to be implemented for all editions of AIX 7.x.Now the lldpd service and the actual /usr/sbin/lldpd binary are part of # lslpp -w /usr/sbin/lldpd FileFileset Type /usr/sbin/lldpd ios.vnet File ...
almost 6 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

Test coverage in RDP for rpg and cl languages

Will RDP for i also get the test coverage feature for the rpg, cobol and cl languages that the aix version of the product for c and c++ is getting and that java already has"? Use Case: Need to be able to see lines of code executed. Would select so...
over 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Delivered

Add Open Source Package Management to Main ACS Interface

Add option to launch Open Source Package Management from the main ACS (Griffin) Interface. Use Case: Improved usability, make the interface more consistent, as other system management functions are on this main ACS (Griffin) Interface.
about 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 8 Delivered

Allow user to request more than 100 rows in Run SQL Scripts by default

Example: I am running a scan against the entire IFS for largest files. It takes 17-18 minutes or so to run. I can't ask for more than 100 results until after the 17-18 minutes. If I don't sit and watch it run, it closes the results before I can re...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Delivered

Multiple/Parrallel BRMS save jobs with the same media policy would result in BRM148A

When multiple BRMS save jobs with the same media policy are run concurrently at the same time, BRMS might not be able to handle it well. At times, it will throw out false exception like BRM148A.
over 2 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 4 Delivered

Command WRKMLMBRM fails if there are more than 9999 volumes

Command WRKMLMBRM fails if there are more than 9999 volumes.We have 12.000 volumes and counting.The workaround is to specify a parameter like VOL, CGY, BRMVOL, MEDCLS... to stay under 10.000.Could you increase the max limit? Use Case: TS003011009
about 5 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 3 Delivered

PowerVC Liveupdate support for Hitachi

Executing an AIX OS Liveupdate function through PowerVC using Hitachi storage is not working. See IBM support comments below. "After completing our investigation we have determined the issue is caused because PowerVC does not report the volume_wwn...
about 5 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

Allow install of client CA certificates to the HMC to allow SSL proxy functionality.

Many organizations use proxy servers to control/manage external traffic. Some of these (Palo Alto Networks, for one) create a man-in-the-middle certificate so that SSL traffic can be proxied the same way as HTTP traffic. An example of this activit...
over 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Delivered

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