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Show some sort of splashscreen when starting ACS Session Manager

When you open the main Access Client Solutions it displays the “Working…” window so the user knows something is happening while they wait for ACS to start. But if you just open the Session Manager there is no indication that it is starting. As it ...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered

HMC awareness of own hardware issues

The HMC appears to have limited or no ability to monitor its own hardware status. It would be very useful for it to alert upon PSU/HD/fan failure etc on the HMC hardware and raise a serviceable event so the administrator can manage the problem as ...
over 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 6 Delivered

Kerberos authentication for RDp

We need to have support in the product for Kerberos Authentication Use Case: I have spoke with Farzi Pourmoetamed (farzi@ca.ibm.com) and he states that currently there is no support and we need to place a RFE.
over 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 7 Delivered

VMs lost half NPIV paths before RMC is ready

when attaching a new volume to a new vm with "remote restart state = "Local Storage upgrade failed", the other previous created vm's LUN map paths would be partially deleted
over 6 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

SQL alter table and loss of data

By using SQL as DDL we often run scripts that alter table layouts and hit the "CPA32B2 - Change of file X may cause data to be lost. (C I)" error. On green screen this question can be answered, however on database connections this requires changin...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 4 Delivered

Add IBM i service and/or API to command help

I am modifying the following RFEhttp://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=102445so as to be clear that I am not asking for output file support to be added to certain commands. I am only asking that the documentation ...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Documentation 4 Delivered

Support COMMENT ON for ResultSet Columns for UDTF

When defining SQL Table Functions, the system catalog contains space for Comments to be associated with the ResultSet columns. However, DB2 for i SQL does not provide support to use COMMENT on (or LABEL on) for the resultSet columns of SQL Table f...
almost 3 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Delivered

Enhance color-coding/readability

One of the many things that makes RDp a valuable IDE is the color coding it provides in RPG (opcodes, comments, field definitions, etc.). It's nice, but it could be better, in my opinion. I would really like to see any system reserved words color ...
over 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 6 Delivered

Need better and easier Licensing APIs or Method

Using the existing IBM i 3rd-party software licensing APIs (QLZA*) has never been fun. Today we have customers moving to new systems and obtaining new serial numbers "everyday". This presents a major issue. Some customers while they have licensed ...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / Install and Upgrade and Licensing 8 Delivered

Bug in Printers management in New Navigator

In new Navigator > Printers > Actions for drop-down menu. Printers that are "Waiting..." status have "Hold..." grayed out and unavailable. "Release..." is available but printer is not held. "Start..." is available but print writer is started...
almost 3 years ago in IBM i / System Management 4 Delivered

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