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Repository Search PTF Currency

There's multiple options to check your PTF currency against IBM's recommended PTF's. In order to do so you have to have some kind of connection path to the outside world which we don't have. It would be so much easier if we coudl somehow get this ...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 3 Not under consideration

Provide Split Screen Capability for all iSeries file types in RDi

We currently do a large amount of SQL development on the iSeries via RDi 9.0 and split screen capability is not available for SQL source members defined with a file type of SQL (non-standard). There is no good standard file type that is available ...
almost 11 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 7 Not under consideration

Open Source Packeges - installed packages alignment between cluster partitions

Hello all, we'd like to have a procedure or a product (including it in PowerHA should be perfect) to have the installed open source packages aligned between two or more partitions. In our case we have a powerHA cluster of 3 nodes, and other 3 sate...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 1 Future consideration

Support Modern Authentication with Office365 - Configuration help

Hi Team, Please guide/assist with potential mail server setting on their cloud iSeries to accommodate potential O365 authorization settings changes? Use Case: This is the situation and info i have received:This enhancement is needed because most o...
almost 3 years ago in IBM i / Networking 5 Not under consideration

Text highlighting in ACS 5250 Emulator

It would be great to have an option in ACS to highlight a specific string if it appears anywhere on the screen. Something like CTRL-F (find) feature in Chrome. Use Case: When scrolling through many screens of data in the ACS 5250 emulator and look...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Not under consideration

Request for improvement of space padding when transferring data in UTF16LE

Please refer to AAA.jpg for the data on the host side. If you specify text format (UTF16LE) when transferring this data and receive it, the number of blank characters in the received text will change. (See AAA_UTF16LE.txt) This phenomenon does not...
4 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

Shorten the time in RSS before the message "communication link failure. (Operation timed out)" is shown.

When using IBM i Access Client Solutions - Run SQL Scripts (RSS), I think nearly all of us did try to run an SQL request while the connection was lost due to the fact that the connection was lost with the system due to the operation time out.I hav...
9 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Future consideration

5733-ICC time estimation for file transfer

Tools like Curl give an estimate of how long a transfer will take. This would also be useful with ICC. Use Case: This would make it easier to estimate the duration of a transfer or to identify possible connection problems in advance.
over 3 years ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 1 Future consideration

Validating to a RADIUS server for multi factor authentication MFA

IBM needs to modernize it's remote access services to include multi factor authentication.It currently only allows authentication for dial up modems and needs to allow authentication through a RADIUS server for non dial up connections through the ...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / Security 3 Future consideration

Support *ALLUSR and *ALL for QUSLMBR API

The QUSLMBR API supports a full library name, *LIBL or *CURLIB. However there is a need to "find members" on the system so *ALLUSR and even *ALL should be supported to enable that capability. Use Case: Using QUSLMBR I want to locate on the system ...
almost 3 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 4 Not under consideration

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