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Add session or profile name to signon to IBM i window title

It would be useful if there was a way to tailor or add the session/profile name to the window title of the 'Signon to IBM i' prompt window. When using a password manager such as KeePass to manage passwords, such a product would need to distinguish...
about 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Delivered

Fix the Help system to use the information available

If I press F1 with an op-code highlighted in the editor (or even if it is not highlighted) it should show me the op-code in question - not a list that I have to scroll though. It works this way in fixed form - it is crazy that it doesn't in /Free....
over 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Delivered

Show the correct HTTP Server status in the IBM Web Administration GUI for HTTP Server running in user defined subsystem

As described in IBM web doc http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=nas8N1020061, IBM i has been enhanced to allow running an HTTP server in a user defined subsystem other than the default QHTTPSVR, but the status of the HTTP server is not r...
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 1 Delivered

More than 64 vfchosts needed

One of our biggest clients in Germany is extensively using NPIV technologies.At the moment there is a limitation of 64 vfchosts in the VIOS using NPIV. My client needs more and therefore requires 128, better 256.
over 7 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 2 Delivered

Unreadable Text when activating the "Dark" theme in RDi

When the theme in RDi is changed to "Dark", there are some text parts of the RDi that are not readable anymore. There is no option in the preferences to set the color of the affected unreadable text.The affected parts that I could find by now are:...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 6 Delivered

PowerSC TNCPM should allow installation of ifixes without NIM

PowerSC TNCPM is widely used by customers to deploy security patches on AIX LPARs. Currently, the security ifixes are installed through NIM server. Some customers do not use NIM because NIM has a complex port requirement as described in the follow...
over 1 year ago in PowerSC 5 Delivered

High risk in IFS file system management

The Actions | Delete command within the Navigator for I web-based IFS interface allows the user to purge the entire contents of the folder they are viewing if no objects are selected. I've attached a PMR number under which we recovered from this v...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / System Management 5 Delivered

Enable the HMC to Take Over the Screen of vHMCs

Enable the physical HMC to take over the screen and the keyboard of vHMCs in the same DataCenter.
almost 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Delivered

Implement TCP Selective Acknowledgements

Instead of re-transmitting the packet AND ALL SUBSEQUENT packets in a block, instead use Selective Acknowledgements to re transmit ONLY the packet in error. Today IBM i re-transmits many times the number of packets that are actually required! Use ...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Networking 3 Delivered

Ability to read payloads when the web service is returning an error HTTP status code

When consuming web services using SYSTOOLS HTTP functions it would be important to have the ability to read payloads when the web service is returning an error HTTP status code like 422 Unprocessable Entity.The web apis served by IBMi are already ...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Delivered

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