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Line-displacement when using HEX-Values (Windows 7)

A number of hex code characters that represent 5250 display attributes are commonly inserted into comment lines of source members. These characters would usually be rendered by client operating systems as a square box or other special symbol. Star...
over 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 6 Delivered

Support for 8k RSA Keys

The company have switched from an internal CA Certificate 3-tier with the Root being a 4k key to a new Internal CA which is 2-tier with the Root being a 8K key. As per Case TS009365368 - we were informed that IBMi currenlty do not support 8k RSA k...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Security 4 Delivered

Enable Excel Table functions In Db2 Web Query and ability to specify Freeze Headings, Rows or Columns

Db2 Web Query V2.2.1 currently allows you to specify Excel as Output type for a report or for a document. In the case of a document, you can create multiple reports inside the document. When run, the document generates tabs for each report. So far...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / Db2 Web Query 2 Delivered

In Db2 Web Query for i, allow *CURRENT, &MDYY or other special values for DATE Parameter on Scheduled report.

When scheduling reports which require a date parameter in WQ, it would be helpful if the Report Scheduler of Standard Edition could use a Special Value to indicate Today's date. Currently not supported and per Support Case, scheduler is "working a...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / Db2 Web Query 0 Delivered

Display PTF group name in Summary Details of Application Runtime Expert for i PTF report

Application Runtime Expert for i (5733ARE) Add the PTF Group name in the summary details of a report. Use Case: As of current ARE level, the Summary Details displays "Group PTF SFXXXXX - Level does not meet minimum level...." Would rather know the...
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / System Management 2 Delivered

Improve the rendev function to be able to change the name of a VTD.

The method used to change the name of a VTD is not supported. The customer exited the restricted shell and ran "rendev" to make the change. We have a procedure to help the customer correct their VIOS if they have changed their VTD name using "rend...
over 6 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 2 Delivered

IBM i Search (CTRL-H) running in background

I wish the IBM i search (CTRL-H) would run in the background, just like the outline does. That way, we could continue to work while the search is in progress. We could even launch multiple search at once. I'm still using FNDSTRPDM and option 25 in...
over 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 7 Delivered

fcstat and underlying APIs - show fabric IDs

My storage team flipped out when I started including fabric IDs with my requests for zoning. It's available as HBA_PORTATTRIBUTES->FabricName from HBA_GetAdapterPortAttributes. Not sure why perfstat_fcstat_t wouldn't include it or provide anoth...
over 3 years ago in AIX 3 Delivered

Add date/timestamp to ACS Status History Log

I have spent several hours trying to cross reference ACS Status History Log entries to the QTVDEVICE joblog looking for meaningful connection failure information
over 1 year ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Delivered

PowerVC adding tape fiberchannel adapter wwpn in host configuration on storage

When PowerVC attaches virtual fiber channel adapters to a vm that connect to a dedicated fabric to tape, PowerVC add the wwpns from theses adapters to the host storage definition in SVC/Storwize. Since these wwpns will never be used to access disk...
over 4 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered