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Sheet Name in Excel After Data Transfer

We've migrated almost all our old .dtf files to the new .dtfx format after upgrading most of our PCs from IBM i Client Access for Windows to Access Client Solutions. Transfers to and from the IBM i seem to have gone well, however we recently notic...
about 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Delivered

CLI Import for Certificates

System: Supported pSeries HMC Code VersionsActor: AIX/HMC SAs Description: HMC code by default uses self-signed certificates. In this day and age of exploiting weaknesses, businesses are blocking self-signed certs via the browser. Yet certificates...
over 7 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Delivered

Update "verify" error message - Disk does not attached to FC Group

When a verify is run too soon after a discovery is run, the error "Disk does not attached to FC Group" is shown. Besides the grammatical correction needed, VMRMDR needs to have its error logic updated to reflect what is truly happening - VMRM call...
about 2 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 2 Delivered

Have iACS store the SSH port which is retrieved from service table

iACS 1.1.8.4 now can retrieve sshd (and other ports) when verify connection; e.g. when you have changed sshd port from 22 to something different and used WRKSRVTBLE to reflect this change.Now iACS should take this port into the connection tab to S...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered

Add support for SAP HANA Multi Tier environments

SAP added the Multi Tier System Replication function a while ago. Means a customer can now have a local and a remote copy of the HANA database.VMR should support this architecture.
over 3 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 1 Delivered

shrink size of load source disk unit

Please add ability to shrink load source when using disk unit migration. We often face the problem when we migrate IBM i systems with internal disk units to external attached disks that the internal disk units are way to large. Use Case: e.g. a sy...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Storage 5 Delivered

IWS REST Time field

bring the IWS in line to support the PCML 6.0 data types. Use Case: In creating a service program install a REST service and using RPG field type T is accepted when generating PCML 6.0. However when installing the REST webservice in the IWS a data...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 1 Delivered

RDI: Outline does not show data structure is modified by XML-INTO

Given the code xml-into query %xml(response : XMLoptions); In the outline the data structure query is shown referenced but not modified.I'm at RDI 9.6.0.9 Use Case: You can't see that the data structure query is modified by a xml-into statement. I...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Delivered

Behavior of STRPCCMD PAUSE(*NO) of ACS

Customer has the following application. Step1: CPYF FROMFILE(ALIB/MASTERFILE) TOFILE(BLIB/WORKFILE) MBROPT(*REPLACE)Step2: STRPCCMD PCCMD('C:\DOWNLOAD.BAT') PAUSE(*NO)Step3: CLRPFM FILE(BLIB/WORKFILE) * 'C:\DOWNLOAD.BAT' is windows-program which d...
about 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 5 Delivered

Find String result save/print

Find String can be performed to locate where, in all or selected source, a string exists. The results show what source code the string was located in. The problem comes when you want to save the ?find result' or print it out. This capability does ...
over 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 8 Delivered