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ACS to show system description in System Select pulldown

Would like the System Selection pulldown in iAccess Client to show both the system name (which is usually the IP address) AND the description field. Use Case: Ease of administrating multiple systems.
about 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

Native video card, mouse and keyboard support

similar to AIX under IBMi this feature will add to having a physical master console not affected by network or configuration issues
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Hardware 2 Not under consideration

New Compiler Predefined Values for INCLUDE

It would be nice to have the library, file and member name of the source being compiled as predefined values for the INCLUDE or COPY compiler directives, like: *SRCLIB, *SRCFILE and *SRCMBR The format and rules for the directive would stay the sam...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 9 Not under consideration

Various "errors" in QUSRDIR joblog

Using the EIM API's to delete source and/or target mappings results in various errors (GLD0405, GLD021, GLD0407) in the QUSRDIR joblog. We request to do proper error handling so logging these "non-errors" is avoided as it is time consuming and con...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Security 2 Not under consideration

New built-in function %RESET.

The %RESET built-in function can be used to query or set the reset value for a field. Use Case: IF %RESET(myField) <> myField;// myField has changedENDIF; // Assign new reset value at anytime.%RESET(myField1) = myField2;
over 8 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 6 Not under consideration

Replicate save status and last save information across nodes in PowerHa Cluster.

In a PowerHA cluster, if I perform a save operation (to a tape drive) in a FlashCopy system that information is not spread among other systems in cluster specially production (main) system. This cause some objects that must be saved before delete ...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / PowerHA 1 Not under consideration

Add Original Job's User Profile to SPOOLED Files or Original Qualified Job Name to QPRTJOB SPOOLED Files

When swaping user profiles, if that job creates a spooled file, a SPOOLED Print Server Job is created and the job name is always QPRTJOB with a User of the Current (swapped-to) user profile. There is not way to reference back to the originating Jo...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Print 2 Future consideration

Find String exclusion filter

It would be great to be able to optionally exclude comment lines from the "Find String" search in RDi. Use Case: Searching through only through only one (German) of our bespoke source libraries for "rechnung" (english = invoice) resulted in over 2...
about 7 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Not under consideration

AIX on Docker Container

To create a Docker container for AIX, like IBM has to WebSpheres, DB2 and many others products. Without AIX Docker Container we are unable to build Full Proof of Concept along with IBM Products listed above. Finally, For AIX, the PMR site has been...
over 6 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

MOVMEDBRM function

would like to MOVMEDBRM stop to mark tapes moved to a different location if tape drive is not available. The command could in msgw state or failed with log. Use Case: We noticed issues when TAPMLB sometimes doesn't varied on after IPL.Wile MOVMEDB...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 3 Not under consideration

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