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DATA-INTO support of NULL values

The API's used to implement DATA-INTO are great. However missing the possibility to provide NULL values. RPG supports that a variable can have the special value of NULL but the the API does not allow to transfer this special case. Especially while...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 1 Future consideration

Enabling Security in Shared Citrix Environment

Enabling ACS function restriction are user level in the shared environment. Use Case: If ACS is deployed in the Citrix environment(shared). Changing the Local Machine registry will impact all users who connects to the Citrix server. Now we are loo...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Future consideration

Add an API or similar option to an existing API to get all messages for a specified Job

Today if you need all messages for an ACTIVE Job you have the Joblog Message APIs, and if you extract the Exception Message Queue for the job you also have that msg queue. But in the context of a Scheduled Job that runs and has finished processing...
about 1 year ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 6 Not under consideration

Adding multiple baseDN's to allow users for Single Sign on

IBM i allows only one baseDN for users to use Single Sign on . Requesting IBM development team to have enable multiple baseDN , so the users with different Organization unit (OU) can be added to baseDN to allow all users use Single sign on
about 2 years ago in IBM i / System Management 5 Future consideration

Include the Message File and library in the QUSEC (ERRC0100 or ERRC0200) when returning messages from APIs

Today, when the QUSEC struct is passed to an API, the MSGID and MSGDTA values are returned. However the Message File from which the message was retrieved/sent is not provided. This causes an issue with messages such as GUI0002 or SQLxxxx that do n...
about 1 year ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 1 Not under consideration

Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) support

Increasing security requirements need to have MFA for the login at least in the GUI. (better for both, GUI and CLI)
almost 4 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 0 Future consideration

HMC Scanning Tool

HMC Scanning Tool - HMC is a black box with no IBM or third party tool we are aware of. IBM should develop a scanning software which can scan HMC and report the vulnerabilities found.
over 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 7 Future consideration

Add feature to report size (df) based on quota set on fileset(gpfs) rather than filesystem size for AIX

On system with GPFS filesystems when quotas are enforced for a fileset (other than the root fileset), the numbers reported by the df command are based on the quotas for the fileset (rather than the entire file system). This option affects the df c...
almost 4 years ago in AIX 0 Planned for future release

nimadm convert JFS to JFS2 in rootvg

nimadm does not support converting JFS file systems to JFS2. https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/cgaix/entry/convert_rootvg_file_systems_to_jfs2_using_alt_disk_copy?lang=en
almost 7 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

Integrated Web Services server / two-tier web services / need to be able to supply profile and password for remote system

When configuring IWS in two-tier web services mode it appears to be inheriting the profile you set the IWS to run as as the profile to connect to the remote system as. Using good security practices the two machines should have at the very least se...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 1 Future consideration

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