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bash-completion RPM for AIX

Hello, it would be nice and useful to have bash-completion RPM ported to AIX. Bash is already available on AIX toolbox for linux application because a lot of users use it, but right now it's not possible to have custom completion of commands, TAB ...
almost 6 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

Avoiding HMC User HSCROOT for PowerVC

Create a user at HMC with least privileges to connect PowerVC to HMC
over 4 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

Create an IBM i Service for command DSPSAVF

Create a new IBM i Service to make it possible to get information of the content in a Save File. Use Case: Save Files are great to use when delivering objects from on server to another. To be able automate a deployment process we need to know what...
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 8 Delivered

Overlay exported procedures with a little icon to distinguish them from internal procedures

Please add an overlay to exported procedures in the "Outline" view. Distinguishing between exported from imported procedures would be much easier, if there were different icons for both types. Maybe you could also add an overlay to the local proce...
about 4 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 8 Delivered

Upload Multiple Files to Integrated File System in ACS

Currently, to upload or download a file to/from the IFS using Access Client Solutions, you have to go through a host of dialog boxes to accomplish the task. It would be nice to be able to select a file or multiple files and drag and drop them to a...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 10 Delivered

Enhance SSO for Navigator for i to allow for redundant LDAP servers

In traditional EIM/SSO for 5250, it is possible to configure multiple KDCs for redundancy in the krb5.conf. However, when configuring SPNEGO for Navigator for i there is only one KDC able to be added to the configuration using the configure.sh scr...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / System Management 4 Delivered

Single Pane for QSYSOPR messages in New Navigator

The New Nav that was released in the fall of 2021 provides a single pane of glass for each of our managed partitions and seems quite promising. What would make this new navigator more promising and will allow us to abandon older versions is being ...
about 3 years ago in IBM i / System Management 4 Delivered

IBM i ACS - IFS unzip function

In IBM i ACS the Integrated File System is missing the option to zip/unzip. Use Case: When upgrading iso images are in the zip format. With ACS and the IFS functionality we can upload them but we either have to unzip them beforehand or do it from ...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 6 Delivered

Add special value to RUNSQLSTM MARGINS keyword so command will detect width of source record and set margin to that width

Many of our SQL scripts are "vertically" long (number of lines) due to the rigid constraint of column 80 for MARGIN. Although RUNSQLSTM MARGIN(constant-value) can be used, the requirement of the value being a constant makes transitioning to wider ...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 5 Delivered

IBM i ACS Run SQL Scripts Open file sort order settings choice

As part of this request the default view when opening the folder for SQL scripts within ACS was changed from List to Detail requiring the users that prefer List view to select it upon entry each time they access the open file window. Requesting an...
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered

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