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Make DDMF objects appear in the schema views

ALL objects of the system type *FILE should appear in the schema view so that I may be able to rename the object. Use Case: I have DDMF objects that I want to replace with a three part named object alias. BUT it the name I choose is the same as th...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Not under consideration

Enhance ACS ENPTUI GUI Window Board to be graphical

Enhance the so-called GUI Border for 5250 windows (both DDS and DSM) so that they are rendered using actual drawn borders, instead of textual characters that were embedded to support fixed-dimension displays; displays that no longer exist. Use Cas...
about 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

Program to System Field (P-Field) To Include Position Cursor

Instead of setting an indicator (00-99) to each field and having to set it separately and remember the indicator used with the limit from (00-99). The Program to System field indicator is very handy here. But the P-Field indicator cannot change/se...
about 8 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 5 Not under consideration

Allow Service Tools Server Lan Adapter run commands on that port

Today we can save and restore from a 632B device using STS LAN Adapter and NFS built-in client.If you enable STS LAN Adapter to be used as an standard interface and use sockets or PASE during restricted state (different RFE) we will be able to bac...
about 3 years ago in IBM i / Networking 2 Not under consideration

Please extend the length of ALIAS in a Physical File

Please extend the length of the ALIAS field in physical files. Use Case: Whilst I appreciate that DDS is not really supported from future development, there is a need to make some limited improvements. In today's times, interfaces with other inter...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 3 Not under consideration

NFS based files as BackingDevices for vSCSI mapping

Allow files located on NFS shares mounted on the VIOs to be used as BackingDevice for vSCSI mapping (similar to VMware data store). Until now file based BackingDevices are only possible using StoragePools or ISOs.
about 5 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 1 Not under consideration

Severe problem with command RCLDBXREF while trying to rebuild the system catalogues tables.

We recently ran into severe problems with command RCLDBXREF & as a result would like to see a few changes made. Last week (11/01/18) we noticed that system catalogue table QADBFDEP was missing entries for certain joint logical files on our pro...
about 7 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Not under consideration

avoid Event 3066 with signed IBMiAccess WindowsAP

Event 3066 is reported for IBMiAccess_v1r1_WindowsAP_English_1.1.0.27 Event 3066: This event records that a code integrity check determined that a process (usually lsass.exe) attempted to load a particular driver that did not meet the Microsoft si...
about 1 year ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

WPAR for 7.1 on 7.2

System: Power 9Actor: AIX 7.1 dependency on application We need some information for WPAR solution.We have majority of server running on AIX 7.2, customer wants to keep all their server on AIX 7.2 but Due to some application dependency there are s...
about 3 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

Advanced Job Scheduler - Report by User

IBM Advanced Job Scheduler DSPJOBJS Field Options. New Feature: Adding the "User field" from the submission information section in an entry. Having an option to determine if a specific user profile is being used in an existing job scheduler entry....
about 7 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 2 Not under consideration

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