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    Make copy possible from RSS joblog

    When working in IBM i Access Client Solutions Run SQL Scripts you have a button to view the joblog. We use SYSTOOLS.LPRINTF a lot to add additional information to the joblog. We use it to facilitate the checking to building a string of data. As a ...
    about 2 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Delivered

    Ability to expand storage volumes in the PowerVC Web interface.

    Currently it is possible to expand PowerVC managed volumes only by utilising a Rest API call, there is no option to perform this task in the GUI. The option to expand a volume should be available in the GUI. Needing to utilise Rest API for such a ...
    about 2 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

    New command to substitue for emgr -l for read-only, non-root access

    Right now if you want to use the emgr command to list efix data for automated data collection, you have to give root level access to the command or another script that runs emgr. Please consider adding a discrete command that only reads emgrdata f...
    about 2 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

    Make Access Client Solutions easier to distribute

    Currently all ACS installs are manual at deployment of a user's PC and manual updates as needed if the user reports any issues and we notice they are on an older version. We have tried to package ACS into an EXE file that could be deployed through...
    about 2 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 13 Delivered

    Add %hival() and %loval() BIFs

    The *HIVAL and *LOVAL features in RPG are extremly usefull. But especially when comparing, the compiler assumes, that *HIVAL/*LOVAL are according to the compared field - but often you have to compare a value to the *HIVAL/*LOVAL of another field -...
    about 2 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 2 Delivered

    Include support for newer versions of HMC, extending compatibility up to at least the penultimate version of PowerVC.

    Due to the need to support HMC version V10R3 1050, we encountered a challenging operational issue, which only arises with the brand-new version of PowerVC 2.2.0. We utilize PowerVC in both of our primary data centers, with storage arrays from vari...
    about 2 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

    SAVLIBBRM and SAVOBJBRM *DTACPR option

    We have raised a call TS015223912 for the data compression on SAVLIB and SAVLIBBRM. It is found that SAVLIB/SAVOBJ have 7 options for user to choose the compression rate, but SAVLIBBRM/SAVOBJBRM only have 3. There is an Command for SAVLIBBRM and S...
    about 2 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 2 Delivered

    The use of a generic parameter for the library name does not work when trying to restore multiple libraries from a BRMS backup. At times we need to restore hundreds of libraries but the parameter only works if the library exists. We believe this is a FLAW.

    IBM Development can review case TS015071289 for further reference and documentation. As stated, this generic restore option should work and it should either be removed from the command prompt OR some commentary put of the HELP text to state that i...
    about 2 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 6 Delivered

    Ability to adjust the desirability of a host within a host group, so new lpar deployments would always go to other hosts first until there is no other valid target host.

    The ability to keep a hot-spare in the host group so that it's available in the event of the failure of another host and for maintenance. T he way it is now, we either have to LPM anymore lpars that land there, put into maintenance mode, or remove...
    about 2 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

    SQL scalar functions SETENV and GETENV

    SQL has many ways to store and retrieve configuration parameters. Tables, global variables etc. However when SQL is not the only part of the loop environment variables is mostly used else where for common configuration. So where SQL interact with ...
    about 2 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Delivered

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