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eerrpt A7004761

Currently when an IBM Power system running aix has its HAK (ie hardware access key) expire each and every lpar on the system logs: BFE4C025 1201160618 P H sysplanar0 UNDETERMINED ERRORBFE4C025 1201075618 P H sysplanar0 UNDETERMINED ERRORBFE4C025 1...
almost 6 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

Collection Services Historical Data should be created by default

The ability to create historical data by Collection Services is off by default. Too many clients are not aware of this feature and have not enabled historical data collection. The default should be changed to create historical data. In addition, t...
about 5 years ago in IBM i / Performance Tools 1 Delivered

Request for continuous printing of using PDT file of ACS

・ Print multiple spooled files in succession.・ The attributes such as page size, CPI, LPI of each spooled files are the same value.・ Use PDT. exampleExecute three consecutive spooled files of the page length is 27 rows.Use default PDT file「IBM 557...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 7 Delivered

Need ability to manage which users are stopped when an SEP breakpoint is reached

Some debugging we really need to call through web front end to test with how information is set up. This means we use the same userid all people in the environment are assigned by the connector. Since debug stops as soon as the program is called. ...
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 5 Delivered

PowerSC GUI server custom bind address

By default PowerSC GUI Server listen on all IP addresses, binding to the port 443 (customizable), and there's no way to specify a custom/specific IP address for the binding. This is quite critical as if there are other services listening on the sa...
almost 6 years ago in PowerSC 2 Delivered

Improve ACS Run SQL Scripts formatter

You need to allow for more options when formatting SQL statements. 1. Move the qualifier of the JOIN clause to the same line as the JOIN clause. 2. Allow for introducing more space around commas, parentheses as is done for comparison operators lik...
about 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Delivered

Add support for the 4 core processor in the S1022s for IBMi to enable full utilization of all PCIe slots

Customers need access to all PCIe slots on the S1022s but they do not want to install two 8 Core processors but two 4 core processors. Please add support for the two 4 core processors in the server.
about 2 years ago in Power Systems Design 1 Delivered

IWS web service hard coded library path

When defining a Web Service using IWS, the library path name for the ILE program must be specified and is hard coded. Use Case: A large customer with has a multi-library environment where they may have different versions of programs with the same ...
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 2 Delivered

Preserve iNav column widths on sys oper message screen

iNav is a terrific tool for administering the IBM i.This request involves the Messages screen (example attached).It is handy to be able to select and sequence columns to display. When I first launch the screen I adjust the column widths to fit the...
about 5 years ago in IBM i / System Management 5 Delivered

RDi integrated shell

Introduce an integrated shell, like VSCode has, to make it easy/simple to ssh into PASE on IBM i. Use Case: As more developers adopt RPG in the IFS they will also most likely be adopting alternative build strategies that require "make" and other u...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Delivered

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