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Access Client Solution - /PLUGIN/cldownload option to use Field column description text instead of column heading text

with column heading you get a lot of spaces between the words which you wouldn't get from field text description The results of using column heading looks like this:- Cust address reserve 5 instead of Cust address reserve 5
over 1 year ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

PowerVC SDI redundancy

PowerVC SDI with Open/IO does not support an equivalent of dual VIOS. Enable redundancy/dual Open/IO capability.
about 7 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Default 5250 Session Font

Hello, Please make the ACS - PCOMM SESSION font the default font for 5250 screens. I was frustrated with the ACS 5250 screens not using all the windows space of my sessions, but I change my font the PCOMM SESSION and now it perfect. Using all of w...
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Not under consideration

Update RLA to check external DS RCDFMT, not File Name

When using Record Level Access (RLA) with an externally described data structure, RPG compiler throws a RNF7595 if the file used to define the data structure has a different name than the file being accessed. The downside of this is that different...
about 4 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 2 Not under consideration

Shutdown BIF, similar as SHTDN in RPG

Add a BIF for Shutdown as in RPG. Benefitter would be CL-coder, not having to call a RPG procedure to do the check if job/subsystem/system are going down.
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Languages - CL (Control Language) 2 Not under consideration

Manage LSS ID on DS8K storage template from GUI

Enterprise customers using DS8K storage, have requirement to specify the LSS ID while creating Volumes. Currently Managing LSS ID is not possible through GUI. This creates lot of complexity in management, when customer has to manage very high numb...
over 1 year ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Enhance GUI "view details" information

The "view details" button available in the "Events" window should show useful information or better point to the real problem rather than provide generic information.
almost 3 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 0 Future consideration

Clearer error message when not enough resources at remote site

Make the resulting error clearer about not having sufficient resources at the remote site to host all the local VMs.
almost 3 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 0 Planned for future release

Option for creating vswitches in Enhanced+ HMC GUI

With recent migration to Enhanced+ GUI, we've lost the ability to create vswitches from GUI with no connected to HMC NIC We're creating them from HMC CLI with chhwres, but it would be far more intuitive to have an option to simply create an vswitc...
over 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 4 Future consideration

Correct accuracy of inline error location in ILE C compiler for SQL

When using SQL to create a User Defined Function, the RUNSQLSTM and other interfaces generate C source code and compile it. When the developer also uses the INCLUDE statement in that same code, to pull in some "inline C" code, when there are error...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Is a defect

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