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    Add PDF Interfaces for PRINTED OUTPUT

    The use of AFPRSC keyword in DDS has been fine up until now. Today, there is a need to create more "graphical" printed output for customers, packing slips, invoices, order confirmations all need graphics, and sometimes barcodes or other components...
    about 5 years ago in IBM i / Print 4 Not under consideration

    Allow means to display multi-line clickable hot spot links in ACS 5250 emulation.

    Despite the intent for many to move to web based UIs, many products still have 5250 interfaces and many customers continue to want to use them. It is useful for 5250 outputs to display a hyperlink to get to web help, do searches, etc. (e.g. starti...
    2 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 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

    PowerHA make use of the SVC tiebreaker information

    For SVC Stretched Cluster based PowerHA implementation. For split-brain situations, it would be very helpful if PowerHA would be able read the decision made by the underlying SVC cluster.
    almost 6 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 0 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

    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

    Support sctp on IBM i. I have used IBM system exclusively for 50 years. I have to use a Linux partition to access sctp now.

    Most other platforms support stcp "Stream Transmission Control Protocol" I don't understand why you haven't already. Diameter/internet gateway communitcations from the QOS Gx servers require stcp.
    8 months ago in IBM i / Networking 3 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

    Linear Tape File System (LTFS) support on IBM i

    LTFS is a common LTO tape format for offline archive across multiple platforms. It would be valuable for system adminstrators/operators if IBM i platform could also supports LTFS formatted LTO tape cartridge.
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / Hardware 2 Not under consideration

    Add Transfer Data Rate to ACS IFS file Upload/Download interface

    The addition of a Data rate transfer information is useful telemetry data for IBM i SysAdmins and Networking specialists. The addition of this calculation (in addition to the simple percentage complete) data would help to monitor, diagnose and res...
    8 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

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