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Show profile will be disabled msg even for non-valid profiles.

OS 7.5 changed to provide the same error message when signing on for the case where a userid is not defined or a userid is valid but the password is wrong. This was intended to not 'leak' information to a bad actor that they guessed a valid userid...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Security 3 Future consideration

Allow journal entry read (RCVJRNE) and native DB I/O with field proc encoded data.

Consider a field proc used for field level encryption. When replicating database activity, the data must be decrypted as it is being read from the journal. It then must be re-encrypted when it is written to the database. It would improve performan...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Future consideration

ACS RSS allow for user controlled result row highlight

Currently, the results panel shows every other row or odd row with a grey background. Please allow for a feature to control when the break occurs to color the row background. There are times when I want to quickly review the results of a large set...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Future consideration

DLPAR "move" adapter option in Enhanced HMC GUI

System: Enhanced HMC GUIActor: DLPAR physical adapter Desc: DLPAR is used to dynamically move a physical adapter from one LPAR to another. In the Classic GUI, this option could be initiated from the current LPAR that the adapter was allocated to, ...
about 7 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

Increase the Maximum number of entries for a user profile in V7R4

It would be great if the maximum number of entries for a user profile also would be extended i V7R4 from 50.000.000 to 200.000.000 as it is in V7R5.
about 2 years ago in IBM i / Security 3 Future consideration

X11 Enhancements to SNAP or other data collection tools

When customers open AIX Support cases, they are typically asked to upload a system snap to provide data for problem determination. Customers encountering issues with X11 (XDMCP, X11 Forwarding, XVFB, etc) are then asked to collect additional infor...
about 5 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

Correct or Enhance the "System Name" on which SPOOLED file is created.

When a SPOOLED file is created, the "System Name" is assigned as an attribute to the SPOOLED file. The documentation says this is the System Name where the Job that created the SPOOLED file ran. However it is NOT a "System Name". It appears to be ...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Print 1 Future consideration

AIX System Dump Collection process should be enhanced to capture required data

AIX System Dump Collection process should be enhanced to capture required data for any crash analysis. Every time there is systems hung or crash, only feedback we get is SNAP did not capture system DUMP. we have all hosts with "Firmware assisted -...
over 3 years ago in AIX 1 Future consideration

Cross-hair highlight cursor

The RDi editor needs a cross-hair highlight cursor similar to what existed in the Code/400 product. The "hairline cursor" does not persist between sessions and does not do a sufficient job of highlighting the cursor position when a lot of text is ...
almost 3 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Future consideration

Process improvement to quiesce workloads prior to Live Kernel Update

Currently clients have to follow an elaborate process to quiesce workloads manually, and they would prefer to have support from the LKU preparation process to identify what apps or processes are impacting LKU. Evan Zoss and Carl Burnett have asked...
over 1 year ago in AIX 0 Future consideration