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Monitor the real-time power usage of the managed host through HMC

How to query the real-time power consumption of the host power supply through the hmc command line ?
over 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Not under consideration

Need additional ways to route jobs into subsystems other than User ID and IP address via SET_SERVER_SBS_ROUTING

We are using a WebSphere application that accesses the IBM i using DB2 UDB for iSeries (Toolbox). By default, this runs jobs on the IBM i under the QUSRWRK subsystem. We need to configure the system so that all the QZDASOINIT (or QZDASSINIT) jobs ...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 3 Not under consideration

Trace usage of External SQL functions (linked to an external program) in OBJECT_STATISTICS or somewhere else

There is no IBMi object for External SQL Functions (linked to an external program). These functions are only knows and identified in DataBase level. It is impossible to know the last usage date for these functions. You can get the last usage date ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Functionality already exists

Allow more than 10000 lines on System Debugger

When debugging old COBOL programs made with a software générator, 10 000 lines is not enought
about 1 year ago in IBM i / Application Development 0 Submitted

Fixed 5250 emulation copy and paste input buffer behavior

When a long string is copied and pasted from ACS, it does not correctly occupy the input field proposed by the system but resumes from the next line in the same column as the initial input. See attached example
about 1 year ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Functionality already exists

Mobile Client for ACS

The new ACS is available for Windows, Mac and Linux. But today we use mobile devices with Android/iOS or Windows Mobile. It would be a really good thing for IBM i when there would be a usable client for mobile devices. key features would be:- cust...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Not under consideration

Reconsider XMLTOOLKIT (5733XT2)

I learned that IBM plans to end support for XMLTOOLKIT (5733XT2). As far as I know, this product is the only option available, if you want to create xml with RPG when you need to create elements dynamically. Please reconsider further development o...
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 2 Not under consideration

JDK 11 fails to run single file classes without compiling

A feature of JDK11 allows the user to run single .java source files without the need for compilation. This can be useful when making changes and testing without the need to compile it first. https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/330 On the IBM i currently...
about 3 years ago in IBM i / JAVA 1 Planned for future release

Bookmarks in SQL script runner

Add a bookmark management (folders, sub-folders and SQL scripts) in the ACS SQL windows Use Case: To be able to memorize bookmarks to SQL scripts
about 3 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Not under consideration

Outline View: Filtering

I think it would be extremely helpful to be able to filter the items in the Outline, similar to the filtering in the Preferences dialog. Use Case: Especially when there are multiple copybooks or very large programs, the list can be extremely long ...
over 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 6 Not under consideration

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