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IBM i

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Support 5250 emulator for mobile device.

The only IBM 5250 emulator that worked on mobile devices (iPhone and Android) was 5250 applet which was a part of IBM access for Web (5770-XH2). As the IBM access for Web had been discontinued since IBM i 7.5, there are no alternative 5250 emulato...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

LargeSendOffset

Have had recent issues for IBM i LPARs running as VIOS clients where 'large send offload' had to be disabled via a macro on the IBM I LPAR. Once disabled the LPAR runs without issue and with good performance until we do a IPL.What I am looking for...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 3 Not under consideration

Include the Message File and library in the QUSEC (ERRC0100 or ERRC0200) when returning messages from APIs

Today, when the QUSEC struct is passed to an API, the MSGID and MSGDTA values are returned. However the Message File from which the message was retrieved/sent is not provided. This causes an issue with messages such as GUI0002 or SQLxxxx that do n...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 1 Not under consideration

Assign CERTIFICATE based on Application Group

On a yearly basis we replace multiple CERTIFICATEs across a number of systems. I would like a way to ASSIGN the new CERTIFICATE to either a APPLICATION Group or BASED on previous CERTIFICATE so we do not have to select individual APPLICATION with ...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / Security 2 Not under consideration

Set Wide Screen Mode (27x132) as the Default Option or (preferrably) the only option for ACS 5250 Configuration

When end-users setup their devices they don't have 20 to 40 years experience with *DS3 and *DS4 mode. They're not sure what 27x132 means. Since is it 2022 and not 1982, it would be better to default to 27x132 for ACS 5250 Display Configurations. I...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

Suppress warning message on CHGPF

When CHGPF is issues as a 5250 green screen command, and the effect is to drop or shorten a column, an inquiry message requesting to proceed is sent to the workstation so the user can allow the CHGPF to proceed. In RDi, this does not work since th...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 6 Not under consideration

Add the ability to support multiple domains in i NetServer, QNTC

Many customers are utilizing additional domains as they move forward with implementing cloud solutions. In some implementations, the cloud domain will need to peacefully coexist with existing corporate domains and resources. With the current offer...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 3 Not under consideration

Add "tig" to yum repo

"Tig is an ncurses-based text-mode interface for git. It functions mainly as a Git repository browser, but can also assist in staging changes for commit at chunk level and act as a pager for output from various Git commands." (from https://github....
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 2 Planned for future release

Support UTF-8 and other non-job-CCSID character data in the RDi debugger

Character variables that do not have the job CCSID are not handled correctly in the RDi debugger. The value for the a_500 variable in the program below shows 'a|b' in the RDi debugger, and the a_utf8 variable shows '/ Â'. In the system debugger, ...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Not under consideration

Support autECL in IBM i ACS (macro's)

A customer has written several hundreds of macro's for IBM i Access for Windows based on Automation Objects (autECL) which isn't supported by IBM i ACS. Based on the IBM case which states "Now, internally IBM i ACS does leverage HACL, but it doesn...
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration