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Apache Client Certificate authentication when using proxy

We need to have Client Certificate Authentication (mTLS) on the Apache server in the proxy settings.According to your support as described in the Support case ID it's not possible. Use Case: We need to have Client Certificate Authentication (calle...
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 1 Not under consideration

Local scope parameter for dow / dou ( perhaps for-each)

I don't expect that RPG will support lambda functions, nor iterators, however it will be easy for users to implement this kind of functionality if a local scopeed loop parameter could be provided by RPG to a user procedure. This will provide a bet...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 7 Not under consideration

Improve the SET DESCRIPTOR statement

The usage of the SET DESCRIPTOR statement is currently complex, tedious and error prone, this leads to hard to maintain code and the usage of anti patterns like user supplied strings directly inserted into dynamic SQL or complex case statements in...
almost 3 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Not under consideration

Unify the formats/places/download methods/install methods for AIX patches and fixes. Make blocked filesets obsolete.

Preparing something like a patch bundle for AIX (e.g. on a central NIM server) is a mess. We have to deal with different: formats:lpp, epkg.Z, rpm, tar balls places:fixcentral: for AIX TL/SPdeveloper works: for java, rsct (special versions for Pow...
almost 7 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

HMC GUI Refresh-Button f?r alle LPAR

LPAR Remote-Restart-Status aktualisierensiehe TS005093069
almost 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

Show pcmprocusage (deductidle) status on the Capacity Monitoring (CM) application.

CM on CMC shows uploaded PCM data, but it doesn't show whether idle cycles are deducted at the time or not. It would be great if: 1) CM shows the current state of deductidle flag on the HMC(s). This could be also shown on the Cloud Connector statu...
12 months ago in Cloud Management Console 0 Submitted

Assign a timestamp to a date/time field without %date() / %time()

When assigning a timestamp to a date field or a time field it shouldn't be necessary to use %DATE() or %TIME() to do this. Use Case: D dateIso1 s D D dateIso2 s D D timeStamp s Z inz(*SYS) C eval dateIso1 = %date( timeStamp ) C eval dateIso2 = tim...
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 3 Not under consideration

Add DFS support to smbc client for AIX

Some clients require support for DFS support. Currently, smbc.rte does not provide this functionality.
almost 3 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

command lind and REST API for Tasks Log

HMC GUI "Tasks Log" is a great tool to show who and what changed on specific system. Unfortunately the information is not available from CLI or API.
over 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Future consideration

Prevent IWS from Refreshing when browser resizes

When you have IWS open and you resize the browser either manually or by press ctrl+f, f12, etc IWS is refreshed. Use Case: Speed up the the use of IWS.
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 1 Future consideration

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