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ARE Administration runtime expert: improve scheduling

Product: 5733ARE Administration Runtime ExpertWhen the HTTP instance is ended, the user's password for scheduled verification is lost.When restart the HTTP instance you need to input passwords again for the target systems.Suggestion: it would be v...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / System Management 1 Future consideration

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

Add long username for addition to current userprofile to enable login with longer usernames on smb, ftp, web or odbc etc

With the long password we can use passwords > 10 chars.Maybe it is possible to add a additional field to the usrprf to enable logins from all others then green screen with longer usernames.
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Security 1 Not under consideration

Omit PTFs

My team believed that the OMIT parameter in GO PTF + Option 8 would remove the PTFs from products that I did not want to be installed, but this parameter does not do this. That is, nothing is removed, and all PTFs are installed. Use Case: The impa...
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 6 Is a defect

Show NUMA Scoring of a LPAR in LPAR Overview as selectable field

in the Partition overview it would be helpful as a selectable column field to selecet NUMA Scoring and see how the scoring for all lpars for a power server is
over 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

Navigator for I Documentation - PDI

We needs a description for the functions of the Navigator for i. We are looking for informations about the analysis of the perfomance data.Someone have done a good job and create all the charts und overviews.But we need a little bit more informati...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / System Management 3 Future consideration

Allow column alias names in having clause

Allow column alias names in having clause. Use Case: Excuse my bad english... When we use the having clause, we refers to a aggregate function of the select list. SELECT field, COUNT(*) AS counterFROM table GROUP BY field HAVING COUNT(*)>100 It...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 4 Not under consideration

Member on second display cannot be used when accessing RDi commands via menu

I recently added a second monitor to my machine, to be able to utilize RDi more effectively. The second monitor is in portrait mode (picture a TV turned sideways). I've been dragging source onto the second screen & then maximizing the screen, ...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 6 Future consideration

Tool or job to query ESS and update OS keys

Currently OS keys for CBU systems need to be updated annually.Also, OS keys need to be either downloaded from ESS, which is often problematic, or manually installed. It would be helpful to have an OS based tool that could be used to - from the OS ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / Install and Upgrade and Licensing 3 Future consideration

LargeSendOffset

Have had recent issues for IBM i LPARs running as VIOS clients where 'large send offload' had to be disabled via a macro on the IBM I LPAR. Once disabled the LPAR runs without issue and with good performance until we do a IPL.What I am looking for...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 3 Not under consideration

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