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Add/Enhance keystore management

We currently have the ability to work with the Java Keystore from within ACS, under Key Management. I would like to see some function added to work with the IBMi *System keystores. I understand there is the 'Key Management' tool that comes with th...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / Security 3 Not under 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

Change severity of CPD5D1D message

When compiling a program in Rational Developer for i (or 5250) a CPD5D1D maybe encountered if objects (modules or service programs) listed in the binding directory don't exist. This is not necessarily an error as long as you don't use procedures o...
5 months ago in IBM i / Application Development 0 Submitted

improvement to SEND_EMAIL, add BLOB/CLOB as attachment

Be able to serve BLOB/CLOB objects as an attachment directly with SEND_EMAIL.
about 1 year ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Not under consideration

create SQL Service like WRKJOBLOG e.g. JOB_LOG_INFO and REMOVE_JOB_LOG

using JOB_INFO one is able to find about job status. If there is high activity on a server, a lot of job logs are created. To clean up, one can use WRKJOBLOG, use filtering, and F13 to delete. Please provide SQL service for a) filtering and gettin...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Future consideration

Reduce the referenced fields in RPG's outline view

RPG's outline view lists as referenced the fields (or data structures) used in LIKE or LIKEDS. Would be useful having an option to filter this type of references since, usually, are not needed. The benefit of this change becomes very apparent when...
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Future consideration

NIC fiber light measurement

Per Networking I/O Development, we do not have an ethernet-adapter based optics dbM measurement tool for AIX other than diagnostics run with wrap plugs to verify the card and its gbic modules. However, per Development, it's not out of reason to re...
almost 6 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

Save timestamp captured for stream files

I would like to understand what IFS objects are NOT backed up on a regular basis. I can tell that easily with QSYS objects because the save timestamp has always been captured at the object level. For stream files, no save timestamp exists. Not eve...
almost 3 years ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 3 Future consideration

Allow "Save As" when creating a console session through ACS System Configuration

When creating a console session through ACS System Configuration, the options are "Save" or "Save as multiple sessions." We would like these sessions to be saved with the other HOD files when 5250 Session Manager is opened, aand a "Save As" functi...
10 months ago in IBM i / System Management 2 Not under consideration

Make the system number static for multiple systems connected to HMCs

We have many LPARs which our many operators need to start console sessions on (monitoring backups, etc.). As such, we use macros to connect to these LPARs. When an HMC is rebooted, the number of the systems often change so the existing macros eith...
10 months ago in IBM i / System Management 1 Submitted