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Enable checking of currently active users

When PowerVC maintenance is being performed (stop/start/upgrade) it would be useful to be able to check if there were any active UI sessions.Ideally we could run a CLI command to list users in a particular project or all projects
almost 2 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Add a Save Results As... option to the File or Tools menu.

Having to launch the 1980's File Transfer Program to pull down data is embarrassing. When I have a resultset in the lower pane, I should be able to simply save that resultset as XLSX or CSV to my local PC.
3 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 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

Modify OpenAPI generation options from IWS

Currently when you deploy an API to IWS it generates a "swagger" document. This document conforms to the JSON based version 2.0 of the OpenAPI spec. Would it be possible to allow selection of the format / version to have this generated as? The res...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 2 Future consideration

Provide option to bind SNMP agent to the Boot IP of the system/node.

If the SNMP service uses a dynamically assigned virtual IP, the reported data could be related to multiple systems/nodes instead of a single unique system/node because the virtual IP may be associated with multiple systems/nodes.
7 months ago in AIX 0 Submitted

Feature: disable "case-insensitivity" HMC-username for ldap user

Unfortunately, with the HMC it depends on the upper and lower case of the user name by login (via GUI and SSH). Often the maintenance of the username in the LDAP is not completely uniform. e.g. old user: -user132-Admin1. new user : -user132-admin1
7 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Planned for future release

Provide CHGSPLFA API and include SPOOLED FILE OWNER User Profile

SPOOLED Files have 3 user profiles associated with them: 1. The User Profile under which the Job that created the SPOOLED file was running ("job user").2. The Creator User Profile3. The SPOOLED File Owner Currently none of these three attributes m...
about 1 year ago in IBM i / Print 1 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

Create a list of PTFs when applying a CUM that need to be reviewed even when doing a *DELAYED apply.

Currently I was guided to https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/sf99730-730-special-instruction-links-level-21245 for review of special instructions for PTFs. Unfortunately the majority in the list have no value when applying delayed. I have to review...
almost 3 years ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 2 Not under 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...
about 5 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Not under consideration

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