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    Non-Displayable Characters in IBM Access Client Solutions

    Using 5250 emulation, our programming team regularly has to display files with Non-Displayable characters for various types of fields. These always used to display as Blocks instead of ? characters in the V7R1 (and all other previous versions) of ...
    over 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Not under consideration

    possibility to specify what decimal character %char() should use

    I'm missing the possibility to specify what decimal character should be used in %char() overriding the control specification DECEDIT keyword. The standard european character is comma instead of point. But sometimes when generating CSV or XML files...
    over 8 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 2 Future consideration

    Consolided Capacity monitoring view

    In Capacity Monitoring/Performances page, CPU installed, Available, Allocated, Actived can only be shown in each Power view not in the main page (only core usage and cores available). To have a consolided view (with csv export) could be usefull fo...
    over 2 years ago in Cloud Management Console 0 Submitted

    Show Properties of Modules in Program Objects in RDI

    RDi should display module source and service information for ILE programs like it does for OPM when a program is compiled with *DEBUG information. Some source information is available indirectly thru the Application Diagram, but it should be more ...
    almost 7 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Future consideration

    Kerberos Support within PowerVC

    Kerberos support within PowerVC for administrators managed by Microsoft ADS should be supported
    almost 10 years ago in PowerVC 4 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 5 years ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 3 Not under consideration

    MOVMEDBRM wrongly changes location during I/O error

    When an error occurs during the execution of the MOVMEDBRM command the volume location is changed. ex an error CPA401E received by the command and answering C the move is validated. Use Case: When you have a problem with the I/O station of a tape ...
    about 6 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 4 Not under consideration

    HMC Rest API - Additional metrics

    Currently the HMC Rest API provides many metrics when a VM/LPAR is configured to use 'Shared Processors' - see attached file:• 'Metrics for LPAR using Shared Processors' But when a VM/LPAR is configured to use 'Dedicated Processors' these metrics ...
    about 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 5 Not under consideration

    Assign CERTIFICATE based on Application Group

    On a yearly basis we replace multiple CERTIFICATEs across a number of systems. I would like a way to ASSIGN the new CERTIFICATE to either a APPLICATION Group or BASED on previous CERTIFICATE so we do not have to select individual APPLICATION with ...
    over 5 years ago in IBM i / Security 2 Not under consideration

    Ability to have minute level data for a larger time period exportable to excel

    We are currently very limited in downloading the required minute level data for days or a larger period of time. Aggregation to hours level data wasn't of much help for an environment of intense utilization specially when we want to look at peak u...
    about 3 years ago in Cloud Management Console 0 Future consideration

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