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Socket exit cannot handle high volume of network tranascations

Socket Exit QIBM_QSO_ACCEPT incoming packets act like it is serialize. On a larger system with many network connection, this exit point is not usable, Performance degrade with High volume of transactions Use Case: Installing Exit Program on Exit P...
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / Networking 3 Delivered

Allow adjustment of column width individually

Need the ability to change the width of individual columns, or at least turn on/off word wrapping for individual columns. This needs to translate to HTML, Excel, PDF, etc. Use Case: The only adjustment available is Autofit, which simply turns off/...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Db2 Web Query 2 Delivered

Requesting that all include criteria be saved as part of the Favorite item definition in Navigator for i

In Navigator for i, we specify include criteria (i.e. - filtering to include only two subsystems on the Active Jobs screen), and then save the resulting screen as a Favorite. After closing the screen and then going back in via the saved Favorite, ...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / System Management 1 Delivered

IWS web service transaction level logging

IWS does not have the ability to log web services requests and responses. These metrics are critical to be able to capture, measure, monitor and report on the throughput and response times and general health of a web service. Use Case: To be able ...
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 3 Delivered

hope to use "WITH RESTRICT ON DROP" for tables

DB2 UDB have below function, it can add a flag on table, forbidden user drop the table:https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSAUZ9_11.2.0/topics/adbu_build-sql_restrict-drop.htmlIf a table has the Restrict on Drop attribute, users are re...
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Delivered

allow configuration of Hardware management interfaces via commandline in ACS

please add possibility to configure hardware management interfaces in ACS via commandline Use Case: We have a lot of IBM i systems in our system configuration list. Since ACS v1.1.8.2 it is possible to configure up to 6 hardware management interfa...
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 8 Delivered

Make "Navigator for i" more like "System i Navigator" still is now!

In the web based Navigator for i it is very impractical to work with multiple systems at once.In the "fat client" System i Navigator it was much more user friendly to have all your systems in 1 view which makes it easy to manage and use them.It is...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / System Management 7 Delivered

Upgrade dns BIND to a current version

Upgrade BIND level to a level which will allow us to pass audits. Simply patching ancient versions of BIND to address various CVE's does not help us to pass audits.See https://www.isc.org/downloads/the BIND level on 7.1 and above is way back at 9....
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / Networking 2 Delivered

PDF A3

We need the possibility of creating PDF-files in format A3 Use Case: ovrprtf wscst(*pdf)
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Print 6 Delivered

Improve performance of fetching VIOS object

Currently our compute service depends heavily on fetching the VIOS object. Whenever the host has a lot of LPARs or LPARs with a lot of disks attached to it, the Rest api to get the VIOS object times out after 2 mins. Unfortunately this affects the...
almost 6 years ago in PowerVM NovaLink 3 Delivered

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