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For AJS, the notification message setting item cannot be set for double-byte characters.

This is an event when adding a job in AJS on the 5250 screen.The Notification Message item is set to type A, and double-byte characters cannot be set.Double-byte character input is important in Japanese environment. Please let us know how to solve...
6 months ago in IBM i / System Management 6 Not under consideration

Enhance CREATE ALIAS to support a partition (i.e., member) name of *ALL

When attempting to read a multi-member database file, the only way to jump between members is to (A) do an OVRDBF or (B) create an SQL ALIAS. The SQL engine doesn't seem to respect the override when MBR(*ALL) is specified, and CREATE ALIAS also do...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Future consideration

ACS allow paste into multiple windows and allow "multi execution across selected open emulation sessions.

we manage many LPARs, it would be very useful to execute a command against either all or selected LPARs.this would be similar to what other emulation programs call, Multi-execution "Write once, execute everywhere: this tool allows you to execute t...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

Add column for IP address when looking up Writers and Remote Writers

Finding and changing the IP address of a printer on a device description or an output queue has been traditionally very difficult to do, especially in an environment with lots of printers and no one knows the name of the printer on IBM i. I would ...
6 months ago in IBM i / Other 0 Submitted

Add a flag to the Retrieve Command Definition (QCDRCMDD) API

We are using the API to get the command definition such as the Parameters with it's keywords and values. However if the command has a choice program, that program is executed. This can cause unexpected things to occur. In one example, the choice p...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Application Development 1 Future consideration

PowerVC add support for mkvolume in place of mkvdisk

mkvdisk does not fully support iogroup placement ibm.com mkvolume Use the mkvolume command to create an empty volume from existing storage pools. You can use this command for high availability configurations that include HyperSwap, but it can also...
4 months ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

Configuring IPG to be exclusive for Tape Storage Templates

Most of the Power customers follow the best practice of segregating Disk and Tape traffic onto separate VIOS FC ports. Although PowerVC currently allows for specifying an IPG on Tape storage template (CLI), this IPG can be used by other Storage Te...
over 1 year ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

proxy support for emgr_check_ifixes and emgr_download_ifix

Corporate AIX customers often use a proxy in their company to control internet access. However, there is no proxy support in emgr_check_ifixes and emgr_download_ifix.These commands only work with direct internet access. To make these new commands ...
9 months ago in AIX 2 Planned for future release

Keep debug session active when RDi connection is interrupted

When debugging via VPN connection, it happens that the debug session gets interrupted or disturbed by connection issues. In those cases, the program resumes and runs without stopping at breakpoints or stepping. It would be good, if the debugged pr...
16 days ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 0 Submitted

Disable update of AIX 7.2 with AIX 7.3 packages

If someone by mistake chooses AIX 7.3 LPP source or image to update packages on AIX 7.2, AIX (installp) starts installing the packages from AIX 7.3 on AIX 7.2. The result is non-functioning system which has half AIX 7.2 and half AIX 7.3 packages. ...
about 2 months ago in AIX 0 Submitted

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