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IBM i

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Access Client Solutions (ACS) - Make it possible to remotely deploy and manage ACS

In our enterprise (and many others) the software on our users' workstations needs to be managed centrally using tools such as InTune, SCCM, etc. Currently there isn't a supported way of doing this for ACS. This is becoming a serious issue/challeng...
8 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Not under consideration

improve MERGE by adding the option "WHEN NOT MATCHED BY SOURCE THEN DELETE"

Today, it is impossible to use the DELETE clause behind WHEN NOT MATCHED.Some DBMS other than DB2 allow this.Would it be possible to add this feature, like in this example ? MERGE target_table USING source_table ON merge_condition WHEN MATCHED THE...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Submitted

Add auditing to successful authentications

IBM i records failed authentications, which appear in the audit journal entries, but is missing a unified entry type for successful authentications. From an auditing perspective, this makes it hard to comprehensively track and report on successful...
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / Security 3 Future consideration

Create a non-Java based IBM ACS or at least a non-Java-based 5250 client

This issue continue to happen with new and some existing clients. They go from an older IBM i version to a new Power10 and then assume they can plug-play (upgrade) their legacy Client Access 5250 emulator with IBM ACS. Then they find out it is wri...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

Provide option to set the Script pain font and output panel font separately in IBM ACS RUNSQL Scripts

I often need to set the output pain (resultset data) font to larger than that of the actual SQL statement that produced it. Today, they both get the same font. This request is to provide 2 font settings so that they do not need to be the same size...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Not under consideration

Detailed documentation of the database tasks ACS

Detailed documentation of the database tasks implemented in ACS would be necessary to improve their use and understanding. Unfortunately, there is no documentation in the knowledge centre or in the manuals that corresponds to the power of the data...
6 months ago in IBM i / Documentation 1 Submitted

Allow RDi to use saved ACS configuration.

RDi includes Access Client Solutions (ACS), but it doesn't allow you to use a saved configuration (e.g. 5250 .HOD file). This limits the usefulness of this tool
over 1 year ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Future consideration

Provide capability to restrict use of Global Variables in Subprocedures

Provide a capability to restrict access to global variables from local subprocedures. This could be done by adding a keyword to the dcl-proc specification that lists the global variables permitted for a given subprocedure. For example: dcl-proc My...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 18 Future consideration

IBM i SSO authentication against Azure Global AD

Actually, a valid Network Authentication service and EIM configuration permits to use SSO on IBM i through different Windows AD realms for the users to authenticate to the IBM i using their windows usernames. New times requires new technologies fo...
almost 3 years ago in IBM i / Security 3 Future consideration

DATA-GEN multi types (polymorphic) during serialization possibility

Handle cleanly new modern APIs that allows for multiple "types" (say mainstream Microsoft Graph API ) usually inside an array (i.e. array of different things to attach to a chat message etc.). JSON doesn't restrict particulars types in - say - arr...
2 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 1 Under review