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    IBM i Access Client Solutions Support for 5250 Advanced Function Display Data Stream (AFDDS) Displays

    Enhance IBM i Access Client Solutions to configure PCs to use the 5250 AFDDS (see related RFEs). This would enable IBM i programmers to upgrade their "green screen" sign-on and application displays with fonts, color logos and overlays as they can ...
    over 9 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Not under consideration

    IBM i Support for 5250 Advanced Function Display Data Stream (AFDDS)

    Enhance 5250 Display Data Stream to support AFDDS PCs attached via Access Client Solutions (see related RFEs). This would enable IBM i programmers to upgrade their "green screen" sign-on and application displays with fonts, color logos and overlay...
    over 9 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 5 Not under consideration

    Add ability to "bind specific" most TCP/IP servers and clients

    When I serve up multiple TCP/IP interfaces (IBM i itself and the numerous Domino, WAS, etc it also supports) I would like the ability to "bind specific" many of the servers and clients such as telnet, ftp, CIMOM, etc.Numerous security issues:- Net...
    over 9 years ago in IBM i / Networking 11 Not under consideration

    RDi CL formatting for declaring variables with defined storage

    Add a preference to indent DCL statements for variables with STG(*DEFINED). Use Case: Declare an incoming parameter for a qualified object and then declare the object name and library. With the indentation it would look similar to the following: d...
    over 9 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Not under consideration

    Save Remote Scratchpad Entries

    Saving of the remote scratch pad entries will help navigate code more effectively . Use Case: Every time the editor restarts all the entries are lost. it would be a good feature to add an ability to save them to a list.
    over 9 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Not under consideration

    SR-IOV with VLAN list should allow NIB

    There is great potential for enhancemnet in the use of SR-IOV in failover scenarios, where the control within each LPAR is realized by using an Etherchannel over two physical adapters. It's a pity, but nowadays such a failover scenario is only pos...
    over 9 years ago in PowerVM 3 Not under consideration

    LDAP Connection Option

    Please provide a LDAP option to close the persistent connection to the LDAP server.
    over 9 years ago in AIX 3 Not under consideration

    Make find option similar to find as we know it from web browsers

    I keep hitting the scroll wheel on my mouse after doing a search in RDi and to my big frustration the scroll wheel affects find history instead of the source. There is also the part where you search for something in the Source and you want to high...
    over 9 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Not under consideration

    update IO adapter microcode non-interactively

    Need to change 'diag' command so that it can do non-interactively. something like this -- "diag -d fcs0 -T download -c"
    over 9 years ago in AIX 4 Not under consideration

    Warning added to chdev if byte 0-3 has a known value.

    Request a fix / warning added to chdev if byte 0-3 has a known value. The "chdev ... pv=yes" changes byte 0-3 along with adding a PVID. Command "chdev -l hdiskX -a pv=y in addition to placing a PVID on the disk it changes byte 0-3 to C9C2D4C1 (IBM...
    over 9 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 2 Not under consideration

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