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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 2 years 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 2 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Future consideration

    Enhancement to get better messaging in the joblog for missing directory for access logs

    As described in the PMR #11243,033,724, the apache version 2.4.2 is now "checking during config test that directories for the access logs actually exist." (PR 29941). If the directory is missing, then the apache instance will not restart. This is ...
    almost 8 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 0 Future consideration

    Add command to obtain VPD from Managed Systems

    There are no CLI commands available to the end-user to obtain a Managed System's VPD. Currently, the only way to obtain this information is to manually log into the ASMI -> System Information -> Vital Product Data
    about 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

    PowerVC pre-check enhancement to check backend processes and dependencies so that 'green means green'

    PowerVC health check users need to be able to trust that PowerVC dependent activity like LKU will complete successfully, and when PowerVC reports 'green' when that is not the case for the whole stack, the user needs to see what needs to be address...
    over 2 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    Correct the QSYLOBJP API Documentation

    Today, the QSYLOBJP API documentation states that it creates: a list of objects that adopt an object owner's authority In the classic way of thinking, this would be program/srvpgm objects that have USRPRF(*OWNER) set a creation time. However what ...
    over 2 years ago in IBM i / Security 3 Future consideration

    Ability to automate mass spool file downloads

    I would like a command line plug-in to be able to specify a library/outq name and a folder path and have the ability to download all the spool files in that outq to the folder path. It would also be helpful if there was a switch to download as PDF...
    over 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Future consideration

    ALTER SEQUENCE: ALLOW SUBSELECT

    It would helpful to use an expression like a subselect with DDL, such as: alter sequence XYZ.SEQ1 restart with (select max(ID) + 1from XYZ.TAB1) Use Case: It is common to add rows to a table. If one of the columns is not an identity column but ins...
    about 8 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Future consideration

    RFE Ability to configure management port used by integrated application server

    Ability to configure management port used by integrated application server. Use Case: Integrated application server uses the local connector feature to enable Web Admin GUI to manage applications running in the server. The problem is that the loca...
    over 9 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 4 Future consideration

    VMs TAGs for VMs for DRO

    During discussions, it came up as a request for improvement to be able to handle TAGs to classify DRO operations in PowerVC. For example, define a TAGS of virtual machines for "development" or "SAP" and in this case PowerVC based on these TAGs cla...
    over 5 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

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