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"Shared Processor Pools Thresholds" sitting at the bottom of CM settings page is unusable due to dropdown box being cut off by the browser border.

"Shared Processor Pools Thresholds" dropdown box, especially when you have multiple MSPPs, does not fit into the small space at the bottom of the page and it is cut off, leaves rather very narrow space to work with. If you try to scroll the page, ...
8 months ago in Cloud Management Console 0 Submitted

avoid Event 3066 with signed IBMiAccess WindowsAP

Event 3066 is reported for IBMiAccess_v1r1_WindowsAP_English_1.1.0.27 Event 3066: This event records that a code integrity check determined that a process (usually lsass.exe) attempted to load a particular driver that did not meet the Microsoft si...
8 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

1371E support

The ACS emulator updated its 1371 host code page support to the 2016 versions of the mapping's in November 2017. This support uses the compatibility CJK ideographs and does not support the characters in plane 2 as no surrogates are supported by th...
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Not under consideration

IBM i support for PDF/A-3

Please provide PDF/A-3 format for generate PDF files on IBM i V7R3.(see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF/A#PDF.2FA-3 ) Use Case: Please provide PDF/A-3 format for generate PDF files on IBM i V7R3.
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Print 2 Future consideration

Allow double click to expand/collapse an Outline element

Currently, to expand/collapse an Outline view element, like "Files", "Data Structures", "Fields", etc, (or any of the sub elements), we need to click the arrow to the left of the element name. It would be convenient to allow us to double click a g...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Future consideration

Add command for displaying the hardware where a defined VM runs.

Ease of management, example when deleting a VM cli-wise it removes several steps (or the need for additional scripting to check all hw and find the lpar). Here also would be beneficial to present all VMs with the same name, to secure removal but a...
almost 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 4 Future consideration

have STRSQL inform user about *POINTER output in table functions

playing around with new functions like qsys2.ifs_object_statistics.First was confused when using STRSQL that PATH_NAME is reported as *POINTER; using the iACS GUI execute SQL function the result was ok.Have STRSQL either display correct values (ev...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Not under consideration

IBM i ACS supports unicode display

we store unicode characters in AS400 DB2 but AS400 ACS can't display unicode characters, this makes users work inconvenient. Use Case: could you please help to modify ACS to support displaying unicode characters?
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 8 Not under consideration

Some GUI enhancements for the Schema Browser in ACS

Some GUI enhancements for the Schema Browser. 1. If you open a table list, only some tables are shown. If you scroll down, the list will be extended and more tables become visible. The list could be directly extended in a background thread. 2. If ...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Not under consideration

Show profile will be disabled msg even for non-valid profiles.

OS 7.5 changed to provide the same error message when signing on for the case where a userid is not defined or a userid is valid but the password is wrong. This was intended to not 'leak' information to a bad actor that they guessed a valid userid...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Security 3 Future consideration

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