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Add ability to change font/size in IBM i Access product

Some of us do are not so young anymore, and do not have the eyesight required to deal with tiny fonts. On the IBM i Access Client Solutions panel, the menu options (File, Edit, View, Actions, etc.) and their drop-down items are in a nicely sized f...
about 2 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Submitted

Implement RFC3442 to include Classless Static Route Option 121 in DHCP

We would like to use the DHCP option 121. This option is introduced in the RFC3442. IBM confirmed that this RFC us currently not implemented. The introduction of this RFC3442 makes our life much easier, because we don't need to wait for the interf...
2 months ago in AIX 2 Submitted

Moving load source concurrently

The idea is based on the ability to be able to copy (and thus move) the load source from one disk to another without the need for downtime. The operating system is already capable of initializing and moving data from one disk to another without do...
3 months ago in IBM i / Storage 2 Submitted

rpm exits 0 even if the scriptlets exit with error.

starting with version 4.6 rpm exits 0 even if the scriptlets (all but %pre and %preun) exit with error. IMHO this breaks legacy rpm behaviour (i.e. pre version 4.6) and leads to misunderstandings since a simple test on the rpm exit code is not rel...
5 months ago in AIX 0 Submitted

Enable Virtual Serial Number (VSN) for Shared Processor Pool (SPP)

As currently defined, a Virtual Serial Number (VSN) can only be used once for a single LPAR, with cores fully assigned. This approach significantly limits flexibility. For example, consider a scenario with three LPARs, each assigned 0.4 cores. The...
5 months ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 0 Submitted

managment librairies list for librairies product with SQL *SYS Convention Name

When you use a select in SQL without qualification and SQL naming *SYS, you use the library list possibilities with a litle different *PRDLIB i have a command CMD PROMPT('test mycmd') PRDLIB(MYLIB) a program associate to thic command ...
8 months ago in IBM i / AI with IBM i 1 Submitted

SAML 2.0 integration with IBM HTTP server for i

Add SAML 2.0 to the existing authentication methods that are supported by the IBM HTTP server for i.
about 1 year ago in IBM i / Web Serving 0 Submitted

Fix NetServer jobs to start with AUTOSTART(*YES)

Problem: Netserver jobs do not autostart with CHGTCPSVR SVRSPCVAL(*NETSVR) AUTOSTART(*YES). This issue has been reported in some CASEs and others.Customers are guided to add STRTCPSVR *NETSVR to QSTRUPPGM. Fix NetServer jobs to start with AUTOSTAR...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Application Development 1 Submitted

RPGLE Language Server (Language Server Protocol)

The Language Server Protocol (LSP) was created by Microsoft in 2016 as an open-source protocol for use between source code editors or integrated development environments (IDEs) and servers that provide programming language-specific features like c...
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 0 Submitted

Bypass EVERYTHING to get to HMC console from iACS System Configuration

If, iACS System Configuration, I've clicked on HMC 5250 Console and click on Advanced there should be enough here to bypass: Management console user id and password Shared session key Service tool user id and password Preferred language There are ...
3 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

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