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IBM Access Client Solutions to Download a Spool File (Funktion WRKSPLF > PDF File) works correctly only with latin1 language

The i user has a SPLF in the OUTQ and wants to process it as a PDF file. IBM ACS offers the possibility with the function WRKSPL > PDF this works error free if the used character set page belongs to the font family Latin 1 (1252 - Windows Weste...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Not under consideration

PowerVC should NEVER generate a NEW imported network if an existing VLAN network already exists

PowerVC will Create a NEW duplicate newtork for an existing vlan , which is DHCP, rather than importing into the existing network, if the adapter has been altered
over 1 year ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Add support for Unisphere V10 support which requires antelope

Customers want to be able to use PowerMax 8500 This cannot be done with PowerVC 2.1.1 as Unisphere V10 is not supported prior to openstack Antelope.
over 1 year ago in PowerVC 2 Future consideration

HMC should give a warning message when reducing current configuration resources of stopped LPAR by stealing process

When HMC needs to steal cpu or memory resources from stopped LPARs in order to fullfill a LPM request or a LPAR start operation because there are not enough completely unused ("free") resources in managed system, current configuration of stopped L...
over 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

Port native boost libraries ot IBM i for xgboost

I cannot install xgboost (https://pypi.org/project/xgboost/) `pip3 install xgboost` because the native boost libraries have not been ported.This is an extract of the error message (which is attached): XGBoostLibraryNotFound: Cannot find XGBoost Li...
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 1 Planned for future release

Make XML Toolkit (5733XT2) OpenSource

As IBM plans to end support for 57533XT2, please consider making the source code for it open for everyone. This could lead to the community to create and further develop the product. As the product is heavily based on the existing opensource proje...
about 2 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 0 Not under consideration

Add optional capability similar to Source->Format, to allow developer to sort declarations by type. Source->Sort Declarations.

To improve programmer productivity and source readability. When reviewing programs, it would be helpful to be able to sort declarations into sequence by types, ie. DCL-C, DCL-DS, DCL-S, DCL-PI, DCL-PR would all be grouped together with like type v...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Future consideration

Bind FTP server to only one IP address instead of all available addresses

Bind FTP server to only one IP address instead of all available addresses. With this feature, FTP usage could be restricted to dedicated network.
about 2 years ago in IBM i / Networking 5 Not under consideration

IBM i User Integration with Windows AD

With the withdrawal of the IXS / IXA there is no longer an IBM i method of integrating users between IBM i and Windows Active Directory. Allowing for the automated password sync between IBM i and Windows AD. Use Case: To modify the existing code w...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Security 5 Not under consideration

Improve performance of IBM i IFS File Access for Large Files

When accessing large, multimegabyte IFS files (beyond 16MB) there is a noticable lag in response times by some interfaces, such as HLL languages. The C read() function with buffer that is a C++ vector or dynamically allocated TS memory seems to ta...
about 1 year ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 3 Future consideration

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