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set slot number for DLPAR adapters

using DLPAR to create new Virtual adapters we need to be able to set the Adapter ID on the LPAR and the VIOS server
about 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Delivered

HMC: Passwords appear as clear text in bash history

When using commandmkhmcusr –name=<USERNAME> -passwd=cleartextpassword this password appears as cleartext in bash history for current user. Bad enough, the bash history is collected in pedbg logfiles (please look at additional rfe regarding t...
about 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Delivered

Overlays/AFP added to ACS

Currently missing from ACS: the ability to manage/upload overlays. that functionality currently exists in system i navigator, but with the end of life coming on to system i navigator w/ windows 10, we need an easier way that the current (very manu...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / System Management 2 Delivered

ipcs man page, get_ipc_info headers and man page - clearly spell out real-time == POSIX

Our developers always talk about using "POSIX message queues" for their programs. Those don't show up in "ipcs -a", and there's not a lot to go on to think that they're under "ipcs -r" for "real-time". Similarly, the man pages for the get_ipc_info...
about 3 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

Dealloc not allowing fully qualified name

I am storing a pointer in a data-structure subfield, where this subfield is also an array. The DEALLOC opcode does not allow for a full qualified field name, only simple ones. Use Case: De-allocating pointers part of a data-structure subfield arra...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 4 Delivered

Can you please add Job_type to Get_Job_Info?

Can you please add Job_type to Get_Job_Info? Use Case: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/1107217/1107217-6238504156156436481?midToken=AQE1P4HH_NHymA&trk=eml-b2_anet_digest_of_digests-group_discussions-24-discussion~subject&trkEmail=eml-b2_an...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Delivered

Migrating triggers when TGTRLS < N-2

Currently we can create triggers only with TGTRLS on N-2. For exemple if OS version is V7R1 we can use TGTRLS with V5R4, and when OS version is V7R3 we can use TGTRLS with V7R1.But when the table with trigger from a server V7R1 (with TGTRLS V5R4) ...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Delivered

Add an ANY_VALUE aggregate function

Please add an ANY_VALUE aggregate function, this would simplify queries that group by an id and also require other values that are known to be unique within the group. SELECT a.article_id, ANY_VALUE(a.description), COUNT(*) FROM article AS a JOIN ...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Delivered

Request for SMB4 version to be available within the next Web download pack program or AIX expansion pack update

Due to the incompatibility of the Unix SMBCLIENT OUTBOUND connections using SMB2 protocol to systems using SMB3 protocol we require a compiled and packaged version of Samba >= 4.0.0.
over 9 years ago in AIX 3 Delivered

Better error details for iACS

The i Access Client Solutions product should give the user intelligible error messages. As is, it's giving useless error messages and IBM support has to review logs to determine the cause of the problem. Use Case: We were setting up a new PC. We t...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Delivered

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