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Update Infocenter to remove sections, commands, etc pertaining to options no longer available

Check out the comments at the bottom of:https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/ssw_ibm_i_73/rzahg/rzahghome.htmhttps://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/ssw_ibm_i_73/rzalu/rzaluprtattmeth.htmhttps://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Documentation 4 Future consideration

OPDESC support for numeric parameters

Would like to see operational descriptor support extended to include numeric parameters, i.e. be able to determine type (packed, zoned, int, uns etc), length, and decimal positions for a numeric parameter passed to a sub-procedure when 'const' or ...
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 3 Not under consideration

PowerVC use other group in place of "wheel"

Change PowerVC to support a group other than "wheel" for su privileges.
over 3 years ago in PowerVC 2 Future consideration

[ACS] SQL content assist don't preserve naming separator

New feature "Content Assist" in SQL script of ACS don't preserve *SYS namming separator. Use Case: Select *SYS for naming convention in jdbc settings.Type a library, then "/" then CTRL+SPACE.Select a file and ENTER."/" separator between library an...
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Future consideration

New SQLSetStmtAttr option for Completion/Diag Messages

During Debug mode, on IBM i, the SQL CLI APIs, such as SQLExecute generate diagnostic and completion messages indicating things such as "xx rows selected" or "xx rows inserted", or "Table XXX Dropped". This information does not currently get gener...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Future consideration

certificate request file from ASMI interface should include Subject Alternative Name (SAN) to support modern web browsers

Currenty the certificate signing reqeust file (*csr) exported from the POWER flexible service processor interface ASMI does not include a Subject Alternative Name (SAN). As result modern web browsers, like Microsoft Edge or Chrome with strict secu...
over 3 years ago in PowerVM 0 Future consideration

HMC BMC Port Password Management

We need to configure LDAP to manage our BMC Port login on PowerHMC. This is an audit issue and hence I had opened S/W ( TS003831906 ) and H/W call ( 75254,L6Q,000 ). Its been a long time without any resolution. I tried to configure LDAP from the B...
about 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Not under consideration

Anpassung SMTP Server

im Parameter ALIASDMN können leider nur 10 Aliasnamen eingetragen werden, wir würden für unsere Niederlassungen aber ca. 30 ALIAS benötigen.
10 months ago in IBM i / Networking 3 Under review

spawn() - Don't check "max active" of job queue and controlled end of subsystem for spawn() jobs (BCI)

Spawn jobs (BCI) are handled like normal submitted jobs. This mean that the current job queue needs to have enough "max active jobs" left to start a BCI job. In my eyes the spwan() mechanism should always starts the requested jobs and ignore the "...
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 1 Not under consideration

WRKSMTPUSR - Same alias may be used for more than one user when unique for each domain.

In CHGSMTPA we have 3 different domain. We have these users: FAKTURA1 e-mail: post@bladetmotgift.no FAKTURA5 e-mail: post@bladetfokus.no FAKTURA6 e-mail: post@bladetbevis.no In WRKDIRE there is no problem, but in WRKSMTPUSR it's not possible. TCP5...
10 months ago in IBM i / Networking 5 Under review

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