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Allow more row value comparisons

Often old tables have two separate columns for a timestamp, a decimal date and time column instead of a single timestamp column. When querying those tables, it would be great if row-value-expressions could not only be compared for equality but als...
5 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Future consideration

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...
5 months ago in AIX 2 Future consideration

RPG: Do not send RNF7031 (variable not referenced) for fields in template ds

For data consistency we use our reference file to define internal fields like so: dcl-ds omsref ext template end-ds ; dcl-s myObject like ( objc ); The reference file contains a boatload of fields. Because we do not use the majority of these field...
5 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 1 Future consideration

simplify the procedure to install the license key

the procedure to install the license key is awfully complicated and error prone and requested tech support which superseded the instructions that are poor and incomplete.
5 months ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Future consideration

Allow for multiple commands from one cli process.

When creating multiple connections via the acsbundle.jar /PLUGIN=cfg command. Each command is run in its own jvm which can take a long time to process when creating lots of connections. If we could string multiple commands into one jvm process thi...
5 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Future consideration

Modify Navigator to allow for Import and Export of Functional Usage

Currently making sure multiple systems have the same settings in relation to Functional Usage is a manual process. A good idea would be to allow for the export and import of the settings between iSeries systems. An even better idea would be to mak...
5 months ago in IBM i / System Management 1 Future consideration

Using IBM I ACS ( Access Client Solutions ) Add more Helpful Hints in Visual Explain by Color Coding deficiencies

When using Visual Explain in IBM ACS to look at query performance. When using the Side Panel with Atrributes and Values, can ACS Highlight worrisome results. For Example we learned that Percent Selectivity is a good metric to highlight. Can ACS hi...
5 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Future consideration

Option to set mirror sync rate in PowerVC

For mirrored LUNs created through PowerVC in SVC, we are unable to automatically set the "Mirror Sync Rate".The default value of 2MiB/s is not fast enough. We would like to see an option in PowerVC to set the mirror sync rate for mirrored LUNs in ...
5 months ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Put Physical Optical Devices back in HMC GUI

In using only 1 DVD or RDX on POWER10 Servers, HMC Code V10R3M1060 and above left out the ability to See and manage Physical Optical from Virtual Storage Management. Systems with large number of LPAR's are sharing 1 DVD or RDX successfully until 1...
5 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

Exit point QIBM_QPWFS_FILE_SERV should include the Netserver file share name

This exit point currently provides a lot of data about file server access, but this one key piece of information is missing (the share name). During security remediation, it would be invaluable to capture the name of the share that is being used, ...
5 months ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 3 Future consideration

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