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CIMON Certificate not available in Digital Certificate Manager

To renew the CIMON Certificate (every year), you need to use command line to do so. If you want to use a certificate generated by an organization (and not the IBM i one), it's becoming very complex to do it. It would be great if we could manage th...
4 months ago in IBM i / Security 1 Not under consideration

ACS should reestablish connection to session when comminication is lost.

ACS is extremely sensitive when the communication is lost. Every time this happens a new session is started. Instead of this behaviour I would like that the connection is established to the original session. The problem happens for example when th...
4 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

ACS /PLUGIN=cfg - fast path for HMC ?

Hello, would it be possible to add in ACS /PLUGIN=cfg /system a parameter to configure fast path for HMCConsole ? (eqquiv of Advanced in ACS) - at least to 'managed system' level. That would be a great help ;) Thanks for consideration.
4 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

Import/export 5250 emulator colors

Hello, I have downloaded a custom theme colors for 5250 emulator (https://draculatheme.com/acs). But when i want to import the file it doesn't work. Clicking on import button does nothing. Export button doesn't work either.
5 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

Quick Enable/Disable user profiles

This would be a quick function for admins/support personnel to use to enable/disable an account without invoking CHGUSRPRF or Option 2 STATUS(*DISABLED). Create an Option 27 and 28 to Enable/Disable user profile from the WRKUSRPRF screen.
5 months ago in IBM i / Security 2 Not under consideration

Change french translation for "Add service entry point"

The french translation for "Add service entry point" is not correct. Actually the translation is "Supprimer le point d'entrée de service", that means "Delete service entry point". During training it's complicated to explain that to add a service e...
5 months ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Not under consideration

new build in function %PASSEDVALUE

In procedures with optional parameters, the %PASSED-BIF can be used to check whether the parameters are passed. To use such a parameter, a local field must be defined and the value must be set in the local field when the parameter is passed, other...
5 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 4 Not under consideration

Provide Db2 table / SQL Service to provide information on changed objects as seen in Memo to Users for new OS release.

For each new release we review the list of changes made to APIs, SQL Services, Exit Points and Commands as recorded in the Memo to Users and then manually review these to see if our software uses any of these. For those that are used we then need ...
5 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Not under consideration

IBM ACS Spool File Download hangs ay 99% if download started whilst the Spool File was Open

If you use ACS Spool File Download function on a Spool File that is at Status Open, and allow the download to get to 99%, the download hangs and will never completes, even if the spool file is later closed the spool file status changes to Ready
5 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

All **FREE to be the first non-blank line in source code instead of strictly the first line

When I code, I always leave the top line blank for various reasons. Also many developers do the same. Some reasons include that RDi doesn't let you insert a line before line 1 (try it, it doesn't) but that's minor. For the most part, I want the co...
5 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 3 Not under consideration

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