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IBM i

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Stronger encryption in IBM Navigator for I Series

Base-64 encoding is not a sufficient method to ensure password confidentiality. The application continues to store password data in a dangerous manner and allows its reading through the HTTP GET request.The desired solution would be, for example, ...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / System Management 4 Not under consideration

DB2 Web Query - Allow "Edit in Text Editor" feature to be used by non-admin

Allow the security regarding the ability to edit reports and other web query objects in text editor to be granted to web query developers. Currently this is only available to the web query admin. In order to solve certain issues that occur from ti...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Db2 Web Query 2 Not under consideration

Quick Method to Side by Side Compare an Open Source Member

Provide a quick method to compare a source member opened in LPEX editor window. Current option available is slow because it forces browsing through libraries, source files and members before a source member can be selected. It would be a lot quick...
over 9 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Not under consideration

RDi don't change selection with scroll

Scrolling should be a non-destructive operation, specifically the selected text should not be removed simply because one end of the selected region scrolls outside the visible window. The selected region should not be lost via mouse wheel scrollin...
about 5 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Future consideration

manage ttf fonts

Need some kind of operation to install and manage (e.g., check if a font fits ibm i, create IBM_DataObjectFont.rat, get the name for DDS FONTNAME keyword) ttf and opentype fonts. "Unsupported method" from technote http://www-01.ibm.com/support/doc...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / Print 3 Future consideration

Option to Automatically do UPDPGM to update signature related to Service Program

Currently when a procedure is added/removed or changed order within a Service Program, the signature changes, and all programs that relate to the Service Program need to do UPDPGM. If not, the program fails. There are some tricks to go around, tri...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 4 Not under consideration

port 2005 "TLS/SSL Server Supports The Use of Static Key Ciphers

An internal audit is reporting a finding on port 2005 "TLS/SSL Server Supports The Use of Static Key Ciphers". Confirmed Port 2005 is set up with SSL TLs1.2. Logs have been sent to development at IBM. I was requested to submit this RFE. Use Case: ...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 2 Future consideration

Create command for CL progam documentation

There is very nice command GENCMDDOC for documentation creation for CL command with nice HTML output. To have similiar command for CL programs could be very interesting and useful for documentation purposes eg GENCLDOC.
10 months ago in IBM i / Core OS 1 Not under consideration

Correct or Enhance the "System Name" on which SPOOLED file is created.

When a SPOOLED file is created, the "System Name" is assigned as an attribute to the SPOOLED file. The documentation says this is the System Name where the Job that created the SPOOLED file ran. However it is NOT a "System Name". It appears to be ...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Print 1 Future consideration

Port ETCD and ETCDCTL to IBM i

Implement ETCD and ETCDCTL from https://etcd.io FYI ... There is already an AIX implementation under AIX Toolbox https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/aix-toolbox-linux-applications-downloads-alpha) and I list it here as two items because it is list i...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 1 Not under consideration

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