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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...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Future consideration

Add ability to set the idle timeout when LDAP auto-manage is enabled

Due to recent audit findings, we are enabling auto-manage using LDAP groups to audit users who have access to the HMC. The plan is to have users inherit user properties defined in the LDAP groups. During testing, we noticed when LDAP is configured...
about 1 month ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

IBM ACS (Access Client Solutions) - Retain Settings in Visual Explain

In ACS 1.1.9.7, you can zoom in on the right hand pane of Visual Explain. Wen you close the window, it does NOT retain your zoom settings. Please enable this to to retain your zoom settings. Also, it is not intuitive that you even can zoom, maybe ...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Application Development 0 Submitted

SYSTOOLS/GENERATE_SPREADSHEET - Add possibility to export to a specific spreadsheet tab

Implemented by adding a new parameter "SPREADSHEET_TAB" to the GENERATE_SPREADSHEET function.
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Other 0 Submitted

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 ...
about 2 months ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

Seperating Access to Profile Editor

Currently there is one option to give an user rw rights. For all custom profiles or none. We have the need to be more granular. For instance: seperate it by operating system seperte it within an Operating system (by LPAR or hostname)
about 2 months ago in PowerSC 0 Submitted

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...
about 2 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

Add FIPS support to JDK 17 and beyond.

FIPS is a requirement for criminal justice processing. It was previously supported in JDK 8 (and maybe later) on the iSeries. It is not supported in JDK 17. To be in compliance with federal Criminal Justice Information Systems (CJIS) standards, FI...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / JAVA 0 Submitted

allow for parameters in the ACS .hod file for connecting to 5250 console

a user has to navigate 9 screens to get signed on to the system console. I would like to have parms in the .hod file for the console session to circumvent these screens.
about 2 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Not under 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, ...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 2 Submitted

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