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Add support for mounting subdirectories to smbc

Many customers want to mount a subdirectory in a share directly onto AIX rather than having to navigate to it from the top of the share. Not having this feature makes integrating smbc into cstuomers' business environments more cumbersome. Other SM...
over 1 year ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

Problem with special characters in IBM i Access Client Solution ACS run sql script

I found a problem with the content assist function in the Run Sql Script module of the ACS product.If the library or object has one of the following characters ($ £ §), auto-completion will not work.Problem 1) No message is output with the $ chara...
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

Enhance multibos preview to check for available space in rootvg

Please enhance multibos so that the preview operation will perform some kind of "required space" calculation for physical partitions in rootvg.
over 7 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

Allow reserved words as qualified DS subfield names

Allow reserved words to be specified as data structure subfield names. Use Case: The following DS is not allowed because of subfields Read, Update, and Delete, requiring non-standard names for those authorities: DCL-DS ObjectAuthority QUALIFIED; O...
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 5 Not under consideration

SSH Key capability with HMC and Brocade Switches

SSH Key capability with HMCs and Brocade switches from the GUI which is available on SVC only currently.
over 4 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

EIM Windows domain source mapping from CRTUSRPRF

On CRTUSRPRF we have the parameter EIMASSOC. This lets us create an EIM identifier and add the current system as a TARGET. Every new user that is created need to also have the windows domain as a SOURCE in order for single signon to work. This mea...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / Security 4 Not under consideration

Add support for Amazon private cloud to Cloud Storage Solutions for i.

IBM Cloud Storage solutions currently only supports Amazon public cloud. I would like to see Amazon private clouds enabled. Use Case: This would be used by customers who have an Amazon private cloud.
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 1 Future consideration

Continue *ALLUSR backup when damaged object is encountered

After a damaged object is encountered during the *ALLUSR backup, it should continue with the next library instead of stopping the backup. Use Case: In an exceptional situation, backup running on Flashcopy Target lpar encounters a damaged object. T...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 8 Future consideration

5733-ICC Incomplete uploads to COS

"Incomplete uploads" to COS should also be handled with ICC. Use Case: At the moment, such aborted uploads can only be deleted via APIs, which is not user-friendly.
over 3 years ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 3 Future consideration

Hide EULA agreement in .properties file

It would be great if the EULA agreement could be disabled from being seen by use of a parameter in the .properties file. The current "silent" EULA solution for ACS involves running a .js script in "Admin Config" mode. My current deployment however...
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

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