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    ACS live editor

    Using many tools that make use of SFTP and related, it is possible to go and edit objects in the ifs in real time. Given the new features it would be interesting to implement this change on ACS as well, so that it would be more complete since now ...
    10 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Not under consideration

    RGZPFM option MBR(*ALL )

    Enable the use *ALL on option MBR for the RGZPFM command for a hash partitioned table.
    about 1 year ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Not under consideration

    Provide namespace for exports

    As IBM increasingly embraces open source, and third party libraries, it is important to be able to distinguish between like named procedures from different libraries. Please provide a way to namespace service program imports and exports to improve...
    almost 9 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 8 Not under consideration

    Allow for profile changes during LPM to save downtime on systems

    An lpar with min 1G, desired 10G and max 16G memory profile, requires a reboot and profile change to move the min or max numbers to anything else. Since during an LPM it first creates a new profile on the target frame, sure would be nice if say th...
    about 1 year ago in PowerVM VIOS 2 Not under consideration

    Add new parameter SAVDTA( *YES | *NO ) to the SAVLIB and SAVOBJ commands.

    It would offer the ability to save a library (or object) without data so that a new instance of an application could be created starting with an empty database. Everything would be saved except the data. When the library is later restored tables a...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 5 Not under consideration

    Add an additional special authority *NONSYS

    With the introduction of a SPCAUT *NONSYS which which should include *ALLOBJ WITHOUT operating system libraries the system administrator should be able to easily seperate e.g. developers from system administrators. This option would avoid accident...
    5 months ago in IBM i / Security 3 Not under consideration

    Enable a description to be added to system reply list entries

    When you use the wrkrpyle command you see a list of Message ID's which is quite meaningless. I recently was investigating at a new site where there were a lot of reply list messages and no site documentation so I worked through the messages to det...
    10 months ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 1 Not under consideration

    Make installing Visual Explain optional

    When installing IBM i Access Client Solutions (ACS) the option is given to skip the installation of several components. Run SQL Scripts (RSS) always has Visual Explain included. I would like to see this treated similar as the System Debugger which...
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

    IFS: Add attribute that objects created in that directory use the authority of the parent.

    In the QSYS.LIB file system I can runCHGLIB LIB(MYLIB) CRTAUT(MYAUTL)and now any new object created in that library will have the authority as per the authorization list MYAUTL.I am looking for something similar for the IFS.For example, if I creat...
    over 8 years ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 2 Not under consideration

    Journal receive encryption

    After a discution with a Db2 expert about RCAC implemenation, it appears that after an update of a journalized table, the corresponding journal entry can be fully displayed with a simple DSPJRN command. Is it possible to add a new option at the cr...
    3 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Not under consideration

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