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Command to work with entries in /etc/filesystems

In AIX there are a lot of small nice commands to make changes to /etc/hosts, /etc/resolv.conf, /etc/security/user, /etc/inittab, etc. but there are no commands to add/change/remove entries in /etc/filesystems without changing logical volumes. It w...
almost 6 years ago in AIX 3 Not under consideration

lock being dropped when an object is deleted

I'm going to describe this behaviour I think it's strange, although notsure if it's the normal way to work. When we exclusive lock a logical file, the physicals are also locked; Iunderstand this is normal. But, if we delete the logical while it'ss...
about 8 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 3 Not under consideration

single sign on with CCSID5026

My request is that GSS (Generic Security Services) APIs can support CCSID 290 and 5026 in order to enable single sign on in our IBM i environment. IBM i is our life insurance policy administration system and QCCSID cannot be changed to 5035, which...
about 5 years ago in IBM i / Security 3 Not under consideration

NetServer support of SMB2 not support Change Notify

After reading the document https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=nas8N1021348 and that you would like to be implemented support for CHANGE_NOTIFY in the Iseries Use Case: Problems described in the document (https://www-01.ibm.com/support/...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 1 Not under 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

Generate Case Sensitive WSDL Service Names

When dealing with some 3rd Party applications they sometimes have requirements with having the service name in camel case. Currently when generating program info for the PCML you can specify *DCLCASE but that only applies to field names. Would it ...
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 1 Future consideration

Allow more than 16 group profiles for a user profile

Actually, one can link a user profile to 16 group profiles. For RCAC performance, we need to link a user profile to more than 16 group profiles.
about 2 years ago in IBM i / Security 1 Not under consideration

Extend the JOB_LOCK_INFO UDTF to provide the current awaited time

Please extend the JOB_LOCK_INFO UDTF to also provide the current wait duration for pending locks. This would enable easier automatic detection of erroneous locks and hanging jobs.
about 2 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Not under consideration

Create plugins for eclipse Classic instead of doing your own version of eclipse for RDI.

RDI is at the moment not able to install correctly without errors on macOS Big Sur. It even required you to change chmod on install directories to just get it startet. Eclipse Classic has no problems with this, it also has a much more smooth insta...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Not under consideration

Please implement iSCSI initiator (client)

It would be nice to have support for placing iASPs onto iSCSI volumes hosted elsewhere. Use Case: This would help to put less often used objects on cheaper and slower storage for smaller shops who don't rely on VIOS but only on IBM i in a primary ...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / Storage 7 Not under consideration

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