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Make installing Visual Explain optional

When installing IBM i Access Client Solutions (ACS) the option is given to skip the installation of several components. Run SQL Scripts (RSS) always has Visual Explain included. I would like to see this treated similar as the System Debugger which...
6 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

SQL Script Listing Open IFS Share Sessions

The below SQL script "SELECT SERVER_SHARE_NAME, SHARE_TYPE, TEXT_DESCRIPTION, PATH_NAME, CURRENT_CONNECTIONS FROM QSYS2.SERVER_SHARE_INFO WHERE SHARE_TYPE = 'FILE';" will list all IFS shares and the number of current connections but does not provi...
8 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Future consideration

Automatic Login Feature for Print Sessions in ACS 5250 Emulator

We request the addition of an automatic login feature for print sessions in the ACS 5250 emulator. Currently, regular 5250 sessions allow automatic login without user input using PLUGIN=logon, but this is not possible for print sessions.
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Application Development 0 Submitted

Modify ulimit to display the lesser of nproc or maxuproc

As per this site https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/aix-ulimit-and-maxuproc ulimit was recently changed to display a more accurate value than "unlimited" when nproc is -1, and instead show the maxuproc that provides the real limit.This helps provid...
about 2 months ago in AIX 0 Submitted

IBM PowerSC should provide an option to mark a failed compliance rule as exception in the GUI

The IBM PowerSC Compliance Automation feature allows users to run compliance check. Once the check is complete, the GUI shows the result and displays the failed rules. If at least 1 rule has failed then the compliance status of the LPAR is shown a...
6 months ago in PowerSC 2 Planned for future release

CGI PDI Enable History Performance Reports PDF

Inavigator PDI Performance Data Investigator.Create Report of History Performance data , and preferably to be able to schedule them. Use Case: PM400 is End Of Support by IBM , There is an high demand from our IBM i customers to have similar monthl...
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / Performance Tools 7 Future consideration

Full qualified job name in DSPJOB and WRKJOB

The fully qualified job identifier : 123456/USER/JOBNAME is used many several places for interaction with a job However this information is available in the form: Job: JOBNAME User: USER Number: 123456 in both DSPJOB and WRKJOB. It would appreciat...
almost 3 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 5 Future consideration

ClamAV rpm requested for IBM i

Please may we have a port of ClamAV (already available on AIX) for the IBM i platform incuding back to 7.1 :-) Use Case: Ability to run Open Source AV on the IBM i platform.
over 3 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 6 Planned for future release

RPG block comments

Single line comments are allowed today by // however the commonly used block comment /* … */ are not. Use Case: Since **free don't have a concept of H,C,F spec it should be straight forward to implement the /* .. */ block comment syntax. The work ...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 9 Not under consideration

Add CPYJOBSCDE Command

we have work and add job scheduled entries but, can we also have a copy job scheduled entry? Sometimes you need to add a job scheduled entry and just change a script that is going to run. For example, First job scheduled entry SBMJOB CMD(QSYS/RUNS...
12 months ago in IBM i / Core OS 4 Future consideration