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ACS RSS Position Found Word to Middle of View

When searching for words in RSS that are not currently visible (1.1.8.7-1100) positions the view to just show the word even though there can be quite a lot of additional text that is related. Please position the source to the middle or bottom thir...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Delivered

Inconsistent delete image catalog operation in IBM i

I recently encountered a confusing usage of the "delete" operation of Image Catalog object in IBM i V7R2 and need to ask a question to seek a response. A few weeks ago, I had a chance to use IBM i Image Catalog object in my task delivery to a cust...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Install and Upgrade and Licensing 3 Delivered

PEP 2.0 - Masking or translating the SystemName/LPAR name

To be able to use PEP 2.0 in security sensitive environments. It is necessary to mask or rename the SystemNames and the LPAR names. To review the collected data by the customer it is needed that the rename logic can be defined by the customer.
over 3 years ago in Cloud Management Console 1 Delivered

explicit ssl connections to the ftps control port on the IBM i , either 990 or other port.

Regarding new Data Protection Regulations (GDPR implementation) this and other Clients need to change traditional Insecure FTP to FTP over TLS/SSL. However, because of Security Firewall Systems limitations we have to use Explicit FTP in passive mo...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / Networking 21 Delivered

Please add comment ability into SQL views.

Working with a mix of tables, views, physical, logical files, etc. there is a huge need to store comments in views that are built over physical files. This probably should be added to other SQL type. Recently, at year end I had to change views and...
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 4 Delivered

[PDI] Save & Restore System Monitors

Allow save and restore of System Monitors Use Case: Allow the creation of a set of standard system monitors on one system, which can easily be saved and restored to other systems.
about 6 years ago in IBM i / System Management 4 Delivered

We would like more detail included in the monitor messages in Navigator i, such as Job Name/owner and so on.

We currently have message monitors setup on our IBMi system to track and report when a job goes into MSGW state. The monitor works, but there is no detail in the report/eventlog, can more detail be added, such as Job Number/Owner and so on. Thank ...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / System Management 4 Delivered

IBM i ACS Data transfer should use type GRAPHIC instead of CHAR

We are using the "Data transfer" tool in IBM i Access Client Solutions to import data from Excel. In the dialogue "Create IBM i Database File" we use the "Start Scan" Button to determine the data layout of the spreadsheet which should be imported....
7 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Delivered

Disable the Feedback Dialog in PowerVC 1.4.4.1

It is a bad idea to put such requests in production-system-steering software/hardware. Systems are firewalled. you will never get feedback this way.
over 4 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

ACS Session Mgr - Behavior Change RFE

The default for 5250 sessions is Save on Exit... Always. Per session in the session Edit... Preferences... Exit...Therefore, when I close a session, it forces the refresh of the Session Manager list automatically. This 'feature' makes it terribly ...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Delivered

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