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Add SPOOLED FILE FILTER to QGYOLSPL API

As instructed by another RFE to classify this under QGYOLSPL instead of QUSLSPL:Please provide a SPOOLED FILE NAME Filter to the QGYOLSPL API and allow multiple entiries, including generic SPOOLED File Names simile to other QGYOLSPL filters. Use C...
about 3 years ago in IBM i / Print 5 Future consideration

Automatically display a PDF document on the screen after creating the PDF in an interactive 5250 session.

Due to environmental restrictions namely security, we cannot give the users in the plant access to the IFS to see and display PDF documents. What we need here and this is required for many reports, is to somehow open the PDF programmatically from ...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Not under consideration

A way for PowerVC 2.0 to purge data out of logs by date/time and status.

A way to purge data from the logs in the PowerVC 2.0 GUI with a certain status for a specific date/time.
about 4 years ago in PowerVC 0 Future consideration

Please add a prompt to run the setup functions again. (Resubmitted)

Please see the idea I created before with the same title. The functionality needed as you say is already in the system. I disagree. Control is available but is totally in the hands of the PC and network folk. They are not responsible for the secur...
11 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Not under consideration

Possibility to configure the * ADMIN4 instance with SSL

Possibility to configure the * ADMIN4 instance with SSL volume_up Use Case: In GUI
about 4 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 2 Future consideration

Information about different drivers to connect to iseries

We'd like to get a (really complete) documentation of all possibilities to connect a windows pc to the iSeries.There exists a lot of drivers and software solutions. What we are missing is to see the difference between them.E.g. i Series Access ODB...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 6 Not under consideration

Visual explain in tree-grid form

It is great to have visual explain back in ACS. However, my customers complains that is is not easy to pin-point where the bottlenecks are in the graph. An alternative view would be appreciated where a tree-grid show the percentage of time in each...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 6 Not under consideration

HMC GUI should have an option of adding an LDAP group along with LDAP users

HMC GUI should have an option of manage/add users as well as groups from LDAP. We currently have the LDAP configured under HMC to authenticate based on the individual user but not group. A case was opened with IBM support in order to provide a sol...
over 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Planned for future release

Request additional setup options in ACS

We need additional option to the setup of workstations in ACS. The options available to a savvy but maybe wreckless user, are frightening. In terms of Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), we need to lock down what a user can do or give themselves access to, exam...
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

IDS LDAP client enhancement

The IBM AIX ldap client currently does not seem to support load balancer VIP for AD domain controllers. It would be nice to have support for a load balancer VIP instead of having to define a list of comma separated domain controller servers especi...
over 2 years ago in AIX 3 Not under consideration