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Applying PTFs wrecks the Java certificate store

When we are applying PTFs then the Java certificate store is wrecked. The certificates, we have added here, are removed and every time we have to remember to add all the certificates we have added. This should be changed so the installation of PTF...
about 7 hours ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 0 Submitted

Provide a way to display the current smbc reauthentication timer value for a share

EMC servers don't accept asynchronous authentication data (in other words, a Session Setup Request with new credentials sent on an already established session). They return an error, interrupting service. Since reauthentication can't be disabled i...
about 23 hours ago in AIX 0 Submitted

Add a search zone in the ACS Session Manager

In the IBM ACS session manager, would it be possible to add a search box where you could enter the first few letters of the session name and only sessions starting with these letters would be displayed in the session list? Thank you
1 day ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 0 Submitted

IBM Navigator for i - Disable multiple user profiles over multiple systems/LPAR's.

If a person leaves the company, it would be useful to disable the userprofile over multiple systems/LPAR's, instead of deleting the user profile.
2 days ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 0 Submitted

Provide ibmi-oss Python Versions greater than 3.9, required for Ansible Control Nodes >= 2.16 on the IBM i

Ansible-Core 2.15 went out of support on 11/2024.The newer levels of Ansible-Core, >= 2.16, require either Python 3.10, 3.11, 3.12 or greater in order to run on the IBM i as a control node.See this link:=========================================...
4 days ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 0 Submitted

GENERATED_SPREADSHEET with kerberos and password *NONE

In an evironments with kerberos and users with password *NONE the scalar funcion doesn't work (MSGSY0271), it would be great if this limitation didn`t exist.
7 days ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Under review
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GitHub actions for ppc64le. Let's make ppc64le a standard!

With the exponential emergence of ARM-based systems we think it is time to make ppc64le a third standard along with x86 and ARM. 1. The context The rise of containerization and cloud-native applications has emphasized the importance of Continuous ...
6 months ago in Linux for Power / RHEL OpenShift (5639-OCP) 8 Under review

Add user to SEP parameter so we can target another users job with that SEP

With the recent release of SEP support for Merlin and VS Code, it seems that they made it just use the user you connected to the IBM i with. In my product, we rarely (dare I say never) want to set an SEP on our current user. We need to 'catch' the...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Application Development 1 Submitted

Provide a filter for ACS: export configuration.

You may want to exclude development and test partitions when distributing the ACS configuration to 'the floor'.
3 days ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

ACS > run sql scripts allow reconnect to change profile

In ACS > run sql scripts > reconnect > default to current user but, allow the user profile to be changed for the connection. This will help with testing out different sql scripts with different profiles.
14 days ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 0 Submitted

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