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Change SQL Examples to search for just tokens not sentences

My current ACS release is 1.1.8.7. When I search for an example and I use words (tokens) that are in the displayed text but not in the order of the displayed text the search won't match. Make the SQL Examples use search word tokens to match to all...
almost 3 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 5 Delivered

LAN console setup - reduce complexity and use fixed parameters.

Newly delivered 41G system (with 7.4 preloaded) and LAN console. Proceeded as described inhttps://www.ibm.com/docs/en/power9/9009-41G?topic=use-cabling-server-accessing-operations-consolebut - no console. Tested everything from cable, PC, settings...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / Hardware 13 Delivered

get n'th element in delimited string

in sql be able to extract the n'th element in a delimited string. would remove the need to use mutiple substring and posstr/locate. Use Case: select get_element('abc;def;100;;;qwert' , 3, ';') .... string, n'th element, delimiter would then return...
almost 3 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Delivered

QR code with a Swiss cross as the identifying feature

I want printing an QR code with a Swiss cross as an identification feature or with other logo. We have not found a way to create a variable QR code with a logo with DDS and RPG. https://www.iso-20022.ch/lexikon/swiss-qr-code/https://www.paymentsta...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Print 27 Delivered

Remove TLSv1.1 from CIMOM

Remove TLSv1.1 from Port 5989 and 5990 (CIMOM) due to security requirement. Use Case: Remove TLSv1.1 from Port 5989 and 5990 (CIMOM) due to security requirement.
over 3 years ago in IBM i / Networking 5 Delivered

PowerVC - Image import/export should use POWER compression engine

In a hybrid cloud world more and more images (OVAs) will be created and exchanged between multiple PowerVC instances or with a public cloud.As the compression of this large images takes some time, it would be good to shorten the time by using the ...
about 4 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

PowerVC-Zoing policy for multipe storages connected to VM-Challenges with current zoning policy

PowerVC is being deployed in a leading Bank in India. Customer wants to have zoning policy where in powervc should zone only targets of individual storages with initiator/initatorvfc instead of multiple storages zoned together in one zone.current ...
almost 6 years ago in PowerVC 4 Delivered

Provide standardise approach for lsmpio metadata expansion

Currently there is no public information about what extended metadata attributes can be obtained from the storage to facilitate OS admin manipulation of storage.For example lsmpio -q presents on some devices the name of the volume and there could ...
about 3 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

Working with DTAQ (CLRDTAQ, DSPDTAQ )

Please provide native commands for working with DTAQ:CLRDTAQADDDTAQEDSPDTAQThe operation system should have these commands. Use Case: see description.
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 4 Delivered

List Exit Programs via an SQL statement by Categories

Allow SQL statement to query all Exit Programs by TCPiP Categories and Ports: - FTP (tcp 21)- TELNET (tcp 23 & 992)- CIFS (tcp 445)- etc Use Case: We run VMWare NSX in our environment only allowing necessary ports opened for connections to our...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Delivered