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Include snippets in push to client

The push to client feature is a nice addition to reduce the work required when creating a new workspace, especially when upgrading to a new release (re-using a workspace between releases can cause issues so I always create a new one). However, thi...
about 9 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Delivered

User interface is required to find out license usage throughout all partitions on a server

It sometimes happens that the license usage (e.g. for Web Query Developer licenses) on a server with several partitions cannot be tracked correctly by the user. So licenses are used on a different partition but the customer doesn't know which part...
about 7 years ago in IBM i / Install and Upgrade and Licensing 3 Delivered

ACS opens empty terminal window

When I open IBM i Access Client Solutions or 5250 emulator, this opens an empty Terminal app. This happens since Windows 11 replaced the command interpreter (cmd.exe) by Terminal app.
about 2 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 6 Delivered

Improve the MPIO path failure detection algorithm

Please see PMR
about 7 years ago in AIX 3 Delivered

Add NetServer Disabled column to the default view of Disabled Users for IBM i NetServer in Navigator for i

The current default view for Disabled Users for IBM i NetServer in Navigator for i shows the status of the IBM i User Profile, this is often Enabled even thought the user is Disabled for NetServer Access. This is confusing for users that are new t...
about 2 years ago in IBM i / System Management 2 Delivered

ACS IFS add "upload from" location in preferences

Currently the Integrated file System preferences allow you to specify a "Download location". I would like to have an "Upload location" added there as well.
about 2 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Delivered

Iseries - Huge amount of error messages going to qsysopr msgq that are irrelevant to the operation of the iseries

Error messages: CPI1131 CPI1133These error messages are generated when a user let's their interactive 5250 session timeout and are based on two system values which are QINACTITV and QINACTMSGQ. These messages fill our QSYSOPR msgq to the point tha...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 4 Delivered

Apple Mac Os Support in Netserver

At the moment it ist not possible to access a IFS Share correctly via Netserver from Apple Mac OS X.There are only shown 34 Objects(directories, files) per directory in Mac OS Finder. Switching between smb, smb1,smb2,smb3 or cifs in Finder has no ...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 4 Delivered

Add support for Power Enterprise Pools V2 for PowerVC 1.4.2

PowerVC 1.4.3 will support PEP V2, require this capability for PowerVC 1.4.2
about 5 years ago in PowerVC 1 Delivered

BRMS Syncing issues due to changing entries on QUSRBRM/QA1AMM

The QA1AMM is getting updated for every open and close of the blocks processed on tape. This is to update the latest used date/time in the QA1AMM file. Due to these updates on QA1AMM file, the QUSRBRM/QJ1ACM journal entries were piled up. In my en...
about 5 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 3 Delivered