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IBM i ACS - system configuration option to add links

In ACS it is now possible to add only only one "Tape Management" link. (this also where we can add a link for the HMC http gui ).Having a limit of being only able to add one, does not fit our need. We have systems with more Tape Libraries to manag...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 8 Delivered

Locking Down Open Source Package Management in ACS

How can we lock down the new feature Open Source Package Management in IBM i Access Client Solutions? How do we make sure non-system administrators do not play around with installing and uninstalling packages? Use Case: IBM i Access Client Solutio...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered

bos.cifs needs SMBv3

AIX needs to refresh bos.cifs to at least 10 year old protocol versions. SMBv1 is insecure and has been dropped by every other major operating system except AIX. Here is the real reason now. IBM says Cloud, or bust. Cloud CIFS mounts, at least in ...
about 7 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

BRMS Feature Enhancement Request

Customer desires to display log BRMS into a stream file in the IFS. Use Case: The customer is a banking/financial institution and needs to keep the backup logs of the daily backups in a file format for audit purposes.
over 5 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 7 Delivered

Boolean data type for use within SQL Procedural Language

You can use a new system-defined Boolean data type for use within SQL Procedural Language (SQL PL) applications that provides support for declaring and referencing the system-defined logical values: TRUE, FALSE, or NULL within compound SQL (compil...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Delivered

Enhance QSYS2.PARTITION_STATISTICS function to include the member text when source file members are queried.

Please enhance QSYS2.PARTITION_STATISTICS to include the member text when source file members are queried. Currently, this function returns the member name, the source type (i.e., RPGLE, PF, CLLE, etc.), the last source update timestamp, the sourc...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Delivered

Manual vNIC failover via HMC CLI

We'd like to ability to do manual vNIC failovers via the HMC CLI as this is our preferred means of performing scheduled maintenance on our POWER systems.
about 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Delivered

add SQL query with print instead of display option or generate spool file then PDF ACS

In DB2 for z/OS there are utilities to generate a print/hard copy report instead of displaying the SQL query on screen, I find in DB2 for i OUTPUT(*PRINT) is not available or valid, and don't know of DB2 for i utility to do so. Printing high volum...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 5 Delivered

Request a table function to display journal inheritance rules for libraries

Request a table function for journal inherit rules In the course of auditing journal inheritance rules we found only two ways to display journal inheritance rules: DSPLIBD to *PRINTorRTVLIBD A table function that returns separate columns is much f...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Delivered

Support more than 32 Store Procedures per PAS

Creating External SQL Stored Procedures that reference a Subprocedure in a *SRVPGM have a 32 Procedure maximum per *SRVPGM. Remove this 32 Procedure limit so unlimited (or at least 32766) Procedures may reference the same *SRVPGM object. Use Case:...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Delivered

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