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IBM i

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Eliminate an IPL when changing system name

Changing the system name via the CHGNETA command requires an IPL for the system name change to take affect. I would like to see this requirement removed and have the change either become active immediately, or after restarting TCP/IP services. Use...
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / Networking 3 Not under consideration

Program to System Field (P-Field) To Include Position Cursor

Instead of setting an indicator (00-99) to each field and having to set it separately and remember the indicator used with the limit from (00-99). The Program to System field indicator is very handy here. But the P-Field indicator cannot change/se...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 5 Not under consideration

BRMS: Allow parallel-parallel save and OMITS(*IGNORE/*PROCESS) for library objects

Instead of simply listing *ALLUSR on our control groups we use a list entry which only has one entry, *ALLUSR. The reason we do this is because we do a parallel-parallel save. Basically that's IBM speak for allowing it to support saving across mul...
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 3 Not under consideration

Severe problem with command RCLDBXREF while trying to rebuild the system catalogues tables.

We recently ran into severe problems with command RCLDBXREF & as a result would like to see a few changes made. Last week (11/01/18) we noticed that system catalogue table QADBFDEP was missing entries for certain joint logical files on our pro...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Not under consideration

Advanced Job Scheduler - Report by User

IBM Advanced Job Scheduler DSPJOBJS Field Options. New Feature: Adding the "User field" from the submission information section in an entry. Having an option to determine if a specific user profile is being used in an existing job scheduler entry....
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 2 Not under consideration

Enable SFTP for IBMARE

SYSTEM : IBM IProduct : IBMAREDescription : Our team is using ARE product. Currently IBM do not have the option to secure the data transfer between the host IBMARE and the remote machines. We would really need a secure way of data transfer as an e...
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 0 Future consideration

access swagger file freely

The web services server generate swagger.json files for REST, good news ! but as Wsdl are access free, the new swagger file are under HTTPAdmin, so swaggerUi and postman CAN'T use it. please put the swagger file under the context root (/web/servic...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 1 Future consideration

Access Client Solutions takes 50 to 60 seconds to start first session

The time used by Access Client Solutions (ACS) to start the first time need to be improved. From I click on the icon on my Desktop till the window prompting me for userid and password is shown it takes about 50 to 60 seconds !!! This is way to lon...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Not under consideration

Printing from IBM i Access Client Solutions

Software: IBM i Access Client Solutions (ACS)Actor: User wants same printing behavior as IBM i Access for Windows (CA/400) Customer is using Printing session from CA/400 for printing *SCS spool files to Epson dot matrix printer. Since CA/400 does ...
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

Single Sign on

we have a third party single signon for most of our windows apps, we would like to be able to have single signon also for IBM i , we currently can get the credentials to go, with no emulation or get the emulation to a signon screen. we cannot pass...
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

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