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Add Creator User Profile and Creation Date/Timestamp to QSYRUSRI API

The Retrieve User Profile Information API QSYRUSRI does not return the User Profile of the User that Created the User Profile, nor does it return the Creation Date/Time, nor the System on which it was created. These 3 pieces of information should ...
about 4 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 1 Not under consideration

Nav4i Target Systems does not support SSO

In Nav4i there is the option "Target Systems and Groups". If I try to setup a target system it asks for system name, user name and password. We run SSO so user profiles have password(*NONE). This application requires a password. Please enable SSO ...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / System Management 4 Future consideration

"Change Licensed Internal Code" needs to verify that a given release is supported on the target system

Per FixCentral, AL710 and AL730 are the only two firmware releases for an 8233-E8B (and level 159 is the "end of the line" for release AL730). However, "Change Licensed Internal Code for the Current Release" reports that "There is a new upgrade re...
about 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

Add automatic vNIC physical adapter selection redundancy to LPMs

When we use the HMC or LPM Tool to LPM LPARs with vNICs it will sometimes give the Primary and backup SR-IOV Logical to the same physical adapter. This removes the redundancy. The source logical ports are on different adapters but after LPMing the...
over 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Planned for future release

Add "Format Source" option to LPEX Editor save preferences.

Add option "Format source" to the "Save" preferences of the LPEX Editor. When "Format source" is checked, the LPEX Editor should format the source code before saving it. Use Case: The "Format source" option is required when using a source code rep...
about 7 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Not under consideration

Make Compare More Accurate

The compare facility is a simple text compare. It easily gets confused when changes to source are too complex. It would be nice if the source compare had at least a little language specific intelligence. In RPG for instance the compare routines co...
about 7 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 6 Not under consideration

vFC Mappings and Live Partition Mobility

You can do multiple vFC mappings on one physical FC port for IBM i, that is supported. But if you want to do LPM, that is not possible.This is of course very bad, one customer got stuck with it.We are currently rebuilding, and that is only possibl...
about 3 years ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 1 Not under consideration

Porting RedHat nfsiostat command on AIX systems

I didn't knowthat RedHat has implemented nfsiostat command for performing NFS real-time monitoring. Unfortunately, nfsiostat command does not exist on AIX systems. However, there are NFS clients and NFS servers on AIX systems too that could be mon...
over 1 year ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

Allow array index to start from zero instead of 1

I would like to have the possibility to specify that the index of an array starts from zero instead of 1. Many times I have to code something like thiseval myArray(x+1) = 1234where x can have the value zero. If it was possible to specify that the ...
about 5 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 5 Not under consideration

Park ACS Session Manager on Mac Menu Bar

This request is a usability enhancement linked to RFE 145698 and pertains to ease of use when connecting ACS to a large number of LPARS's or IBM i servers, Please provide an option to park the ACS session manager icon on the Mac menu bar so it can...
about 3 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration