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    Frame P8 support on HMC V11

    Many customers still have P8 frames in service because it's the latest version supporting AIX 5.3. Lot of infrastructures have P8 and P10 frames connected to the same HMC. The refusal to support P8 frames requires segmenting the management of the...
    4 months ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Not under consideration

    Macro with value='attn' not working - consistantly

    I spoke with Dwayne Bowers about this issue in Anaheim this spring at COMMON's PowerUp conference. In this macro example, I access our attention menu, make a selection, then enter in two values on the program called. There appears to be a race con...
    4 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

    Integrated File System tool: Allow us to change the size of the font

    In ACS's Integrated File System tool the font is too small. I want to be able, like I can in other ACS tools, adjust the size of the font.
    4 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

    Provide hash_row functionality to UDTF, Stored procedure that returns table, Cover all columns of a View over multiple tables.

    hash_row is an handy function to get hash/check sum value of the complete row. However there are exceptions. Expanding that benefit to all exceptions will be very helpful.
    4 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Not under consideration

    Allow the evaluation of RPG expressions as "pseudo host variables" in EXEC SQL statements

    The idea is, to allow the evaluation of RPG expressions (including the call of %BIFs and procedures) inside an EXEC SQL statement as "pseudo-host-variables". The syntax could be like that: exec sql select count(*) into :myCounter from mytable w...
    4 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Not under consideration

    ACS SQL Sessions Automatic Timeout

    Enhancement Proposal: Automatic Timeout for Inactive ACS SQL Sessions Currently, users often leave ACS (Access Client Solutions) SQL sessions open after executing their queries. These idle sessions remain connected for extended periods, which may ...
    5 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

    Add QUSRBRM objects details transfer as an option in the FSFC/FSR toolkit

    Add QUSRBRM objects details transfer as an option in the FSFC/FSR toolkit
    5 months ago in IBM i / BRMS 2 Not under consideration

    Allow host variable for sql-json-path-expression in JSON_TABLE nested path clause

    In most of the JSON functions, I can use a host variable for the sql-json-path-expression argument. I cannot do that in a JSON_TABLE nested path clause, however. For consistency, I'd like to be able to use host variables for the sql-json-path-expr...
    5 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Not under consideration

    CIMON Certificate not available in Digital Certificate Manager

    To renew the CIMON Certificate (every year), you need to use command line to do so. If you want to use a certificate generated by an organization (and not the IBM i one), it's becoming very complex to do it. It would be great if we could manage th...
    5 months ago in IBM i / Security 1 Not under consideration

    ACS should reestablish connection to session when comminication is lost.

    ACS is extremely sensitive when the communication is lost. Every time this happens a new session is started. Instead of this behaviour I would like that the connection is established to the original session. The problem happens for example when th...
    5 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

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