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Add Form Type as a column to i ACS Printer Output

Form Type should be a column in IBM i Access Client Solutions Printer Output tool. Use Case: Knowing Form Type is useful information when reviewing printer output. Form Type is available as a column in WRKSPLF, WRKOUTQ, Navigator for i.
over 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Future consideration

Provide an IBM i Service to return information from EIM Domain

The current EIM has no decent user interface. It is very cumbersome to inquire, add, change and delete via IBM Navigator for i. Use Case: Inquire and maintain EIM Domain using SQL select, insert, update and delete.
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 4 Future consideration

Search for Multiple Tags

Add functionality into the IBM Cloud Management Console to search for more than a single tag. This would allow for more granular tracking & reporting.
7 months ago in Cloud Management Console 0 Submitted

add loop DOU_LEAVE (Do Untill Leave)

Standardization Currently if I need to loop untill end of file' I would do as follows. SETLL file1;DOU %EOF(file1); read file1; if %EOF(file1); LEAVE ENDIF; exsr SR01; ENDDO %EOF appears twice which is not perfect code. I could repalce the first l...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 4 Future consideration

IBM i recovery from Linux NFS server or HMC

When we want to recover our IBM i from NFS server on-prem or cloud we need a second IBM i.I think i't possible to create some kind of program or script to create a SAVSYS and the directory structure on source system IFS, save as a tar and allow to...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 6 Future consideration

Case sensitive RPG

Provide a control option to maken RPG case sensitive (procedure names, variables, …) so that enforcing programming standards becomes more easy. Use Case: I'm not requesting that variable "A" and "a" are two different variables , but rather that th...
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 7 Future consideration

Export LPEX Outline View

The content of the LPEX Outline view should be exportable. It would be a great basis for application documentation—even better if the context help for procedures/fields/constants would be included. JSON or XML would be fine maybe also a readable f...
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Future consideration

update secldapclntd to use AES256 encryption

Currently, secldapclntd uses DES encryption to store bindpwd and ldapsslkeypwd entries in ldap.cfg.Since DES isn't considered secure any more, secldapclntd should be upgraded to use AES256 encryption.
almost 2 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

Support of SAP HANA multi-target scale-up configuration (A->B & A->C) via Smart Assist in PowerHA

Multi-target HSR (Hana System Replication) A->B & A->C will likely be the most desired configuration for the customers who want both HA and DR for HANA. We are implementing it at the customer now, but since there is no smart assist, ther...
over 5 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Not under consideration

ACS - Add position-to on column of result set display

When viewing a result set in ACS Run SQL Scripts, it would be beneficial to be able to select a column, right click and specify a position to value, to advance to subsequent records, rather than scroll to the relevant value. Maybe could only happe...
about 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Future consideration

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