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ACS Emulator support for Unicode is UCS-2 (13448) only, please include support surrogates (more than 2 byets over 2xxxx)

According to our development ACS Emulator support for Unicode is UCS-2(13488) only, that is Basic Multilingual Plan (BMP), and does NOT includesupport for surrogates. Both UCS-2 (13488) and UTF-16 (1200) are composed of 2 bytes only.So 2XXXX is no...
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

BRMS deleted objects

BRMS recovery report (STRRCYBRM ACTION(*REPORT)) and restoration should exclude deleted objects at the point of backup. Logic can be implemented at time of Incremental backup of a library. If an object doesn't exist in that library at that point i...
about 4 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 2 Not under consideration

Service Program re-bind to open files in DFTACTGRP

If a Service Program procedure opens a file in the Default Activation Group and it's later closed with RCLRSC from a calling program, the service program isn't made aware of this and it still has a reference to the "now unknown" space. When it tri...
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 3 Not under consideration

Show active NWSD jobs that have an NWSSTG space in an IASP under the WRKASPJOB command

If an active Network Server Description (NWSD) has a linked Network Server Storage space (NWSSTG) in an available IASP, attempting to vary off the IASP or perform a PowerHA switch will fail with CPAB8E6 'device xxx cannot be varied off at this tim...
about 4 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 2 Is a defect

Journal entry needed when statistics removed from file

During upgrade from 7.2 to 7.3 we got serious performance degradation for some SQL queries. Trying to improve performance we request and remove some file statistics on the source (production) system. It help for some issues. Unfortunately on the t...
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Not under consideration

PowerVC Delete lpar menu to include post-processing script to remove lpar from Chef

Provide the ability to input a post-processing script in PowerVC when deleting lpars to include a method to unregister the lpar from Chef.
over 7 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

64-bit Dtfile for CDE

AIX LPARS with Linux NFS servers cannot use the CDE graphical file manager (dtfile) to manage 64-bit file systems. Cause: In getdirent(), the inode number and cookie size is checked. It they are 64 bit, but the application is 32 bit, an EOVERFLOW...
over 2 years ago in AIX 1 Future consideration

API or SQL Service similar to QDCRDEVD DEVD1100 to retrieve *lan printers Address

Currently the only way to get the ip address for a *lan printer is DSPDEVD and page down. We have hundreds of printers and it would be beneficial to our help desk to be able to find it without giving them access DSPDEVD.
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Application Development 1 Submitted

Create an "Get Current Library Name" API in the spirit of Qp0wGetJobID

The current API named QWCRTVCA works okay, but in those times when you only need the current library (*CURLIB) for something, setting up the parameters and calling QWCRTVCA is far too verbose and complex. Please create a new simplified API to retu...
10 months ago in IBM i / Core OS 1 Not under consideration

port infoprint xxxx2afp tools to PASE

the infoprint product installed on the IBMi includes a windows installable product in /QIBM/ProdData/InfoprintServer/Transforms/Install/Image that installs useful command line utilities like gif2afp to allow batch and command line conversion of i....
10 months ago in IBM i / Print 1 Future consideration

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