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IBM i

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filebeat for IBM i / PASE

Enable filebeat to run on IBM i PASE. If not possible, enable an OpenSource substitute for filebeat. Filebeat is a very popular log shipper for solutions such as IBM Log Analysis and OpenSource ELK Use Case: log files generated and written to the ...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 1 Not under consideration

We need Continuos collector capabilities on IBM i

We need real time smf extractor and continuous collector capabilities on IBM i systems similar to IBM z mainframes. Please let us know if it could be leveraged Use Case: We need real time smf extractor and continuous collector capabilities on our ...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / Performance Tools 6 Not under consideration

Different Systems grouped in Taskbar ACS

Hi, we want to seperate our different Machines in different symbols in the Taskbar in Windows 10. We have 3 symbols, one for the Austrian System, a second one for the Hungarian System and the third for our testing machine. When i click the first s...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

LPEX Editor behavior when enter/delete pressed

I think that the LPEX editor should have a configurable option to control the way the enter or delete key works. Currently when these keys are pressed the LPEX editor does the same as in SEU. The most common behavior (in other edittors) is to spli...
almost 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 10 Not under consideration

Add Kerberos Authentication to RDP

Rational Developer for Power Systems needs to support Kerberos Authentication. This is necessary because our systems are being used to service federal contracts where Kerberos Authentication allows us to meet FISMA requirements. IBM introduced Ker...
almost 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Not under consideration

BRMS Report Bundle Option

We would like to have the option when running maintenance or using the STRRCYBRM ASPDEV((*LCL *ALL)) to bundle the selected or all reports. Use Case: STRMNTBRMPrint expired media report . . . *YES Print version report . . . . . . *EXPMEDPrint medi...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 3 Not under consideration

Manage dates before 1970 in the ILE web service client

As described here http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/software/i/iws/faq/index.html#primary4, the web service client can't manage dates before 1970. Improving the management dates for of compatibility with the RPG date type : 0001-01-01 to 9999-12...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 4 Future consideration

Implement RPG/CL Documentation Generation within RDi

Currently RPG and CL do not offer a common way for a developer to put comments/documentation within the code and then have documentation be generated. This is something that other languages offer, such as JAVADocs. I would like RDi to be able to u...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Not under consideration

Digital Certificate Manager

Can it be possible to include some type of logging when using DCM? Use Case: We would like to know when our Server or Client Certificates are being used? This would include from what source and to whom.
over 8 years ago in IBM i / Security 5 Not under consideration

Provide method to suppress backslash as delimiter for IFS paths

IBM CL commands and the QJoStartJournaling and QJoEndJournaling APIs treat backslash characters as a delimiter and implicitly treat them as forward slash characters. The result of this is that there is now way for these commands and APIs to refere...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 4 Not under consideration

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