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Single Sign On configuration with the Web Administration for i GUI

User use EIM, they don't have password. For opening web administration password is required. Use Case: User use EIM, they don't have password. For opening web administration password is required.
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 2 Future consideration

Add Support for Automatic Prestart Job Tuning

The shipped defaults for the various prestart job entries are generally not appropriate for highly used prestart jobs. In today's environment, prestart jobs are used by almost every IBM i shop. Most shops do not tune their prestart job entries and...
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 5 Not under consideration

Pipe Delimiter Support for ACS Data Transfer

The Data transfer supports different formats, like .txt, .csv, etc. Add the pipe delimiter (|) which is missing, it is quite popular. It could be ".psv" file type. Use Case: Add "Pile Delimiter" (|) to the output client file options, on the Data T...
about 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Future consideration

Enable PowerHA Replication for PowerTech Products

PowerTech Products are currently only installed on *SYSBASE, They Recommended replication of Certain Objects but i donot have the Option to add it to PowerHA. Here are the Objects that they are recommending to replicate for Authority Broker: Step ...
4 months ago in IBM i / PowerHA 1 Submitted

Add More Resource type to Replication - ADDCADMRE

*DTAARA, *FILE, *OUTQ, *DEVD, *LIB also should be added to Monitoried resoucrses since some third party aplpication requires certain Objects to be replicated across ALL LPARs, inorder to maintain User Profiles, Data etc. Most of these objects only...
4 months ago in IBM i / PowerHA 0 Submitted

Copy Records in ACS

It whould be very cool, if we could copy record from a file in schema-view in ACS. So, when you click right on an existing record, we want so choose "copy". Then a new window should open and shows all the existing columns in die file, filled with...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Future consideration

The limit of 9999 records in a subfile is more than 30 years old. Time to increase

There is some justifcation about the limit of 9999 for a subfile. It is more than 500 pages. To roll so many pages does not make sense. But many have desinged programs that search subfiles, sort the subfile, print the subfile, see also request htt...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 6 Not under consideration

HMC should be enabled to use NTP slew mode

NTP can be configured to slew the clock. When slewing the clock the time on the system is incremented slower until the system clock is in sync with the time on the reference system.
about 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

Need only minimum capabilities for PowerHA ROHA accessing HMC

When defining ROHA we have to setup access to HMC to fulfill various task e.g. increasing/decreasing CPU Entitlement and Memory as an examplt. FOr this we need to use e.g. HSCROOT which has full access to anything on the HMC including Shutdown a P...
almost 3 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 0 Under review

Support for Application-Period Temporal Tables

System-period temporal tables are great, but "system-time" is not appropriate in many applications. Quoting from an article by Philip Nelson on DB2 Temporal Support - A Practical Introduction: Temporal support consists of two key concepts : system...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Future consideration

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