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Unify the formats/places/download methods/install methods for AIX patches and fixes. Make blocked filesets obsolete.

Preparing something like a patch bundle for AIX (e.g. on a central NIM server) is a mess. We have to deal with different: formats:lpp, epkg.Z, rpm, tar balls places:fixcentral: for AIX TL/SPdeveloper works: for java, rsct (special versions for Pow...
over 6 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

Enable Retrieval of SQL constraint violation error information in RPG program

Current RPG support requires programmers to use IBM i APIs plus considerable coding to determine what constraint has caused an error. For example, when using an SQL insert on table, where a check or foreign key constraint is used, a violation of t...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 3 Not under consideration

ACS: Improve user experience by using better button texts

When the user get's an error message that needs to be confirmed try to provide the dialog in such a way that the user does not need to read the error message but can infer the action from the button text. See attachments.
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Application Development 3 Not under consideration

Need enhancement on the new ACS 1.1.8.8 - there are some character that are not being displayed correctly

Both the reverse block (box) character and the ? are substitution characters when there isn't a matching character in the code page for the data stream. So, from a functional perspective the substitution characters have no meaning and should be ig...
almost 3 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Not under consideration

LKU - release lvup_rootvg surrogate disk without a reboot

Live Kernal Update - release surrogate disk without a reboot.
almost 4 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

Hide EULA agreement in .properties file

It would be great if the EULA agreement could be disabled from being seen by use of a parameter in the .properties file. The current "silent" EULA solution for ACS involves running a .js script in "Admin Config" mode. My current deployment however...
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

ACS - Support Defining Multiple System Configs for one Server

Right now you con only define one Configuration for a given system.It would be nice to have the ability to define multiple Configurations to a single system that have different settings like user name and what not. Use Case: I am doing work as a d...
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 6 Not under consideration

Enhance multibos preview to check for available space in rootvg

Please enhance multibos so that the preview operation will perform some kind of "required space" calculation for physical partitions in rootvg.
about 7 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

Variadic procedures in RPG

In RPG you can make prototypes for procedures where parameter can be omitted, however the datatype and an absolute number of parameters is required in the prototype. For a more polymorphic approach I will suggest to implement variadic procedures w...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 6 Not under consideration

Improve Dynamic Screen Manager API Documentation

While the online documentation for DSM APIs (Dynamic Screen Manager for IBM i) are complete, they are completely without context. The goal of DSM was to simplify dynamic screen creation, however, the documentation does not provide enough context t...
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 2 Not under consideration

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