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Printing from IBM i Access Client Solutions

Software: IBM i Access Client Solutions (ACS)Actor: User wants same printing behavior as IBM i Access for Windows (CA/400) Customer is using Printing session from CA/400 for printing *SCS spool files to Epson dot matrix printer. Since CA/400 does ...
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

Single Sign on

we have a third party single signon for most of our windows apps, we would like to be able to have single signon also for IBM i , we currently can get the credentials to go, with no emulation or get the emulation to a signon screen. we cannot pass...
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

ILE "C" insecure String functions

We have already created a support ticket with case number TS011234820 on the same. As per the latest Insecure C functions that are documented everywhere, C program String functions like strcpy, strcat, strtok, and sprintf are considered unsafe and...
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / Languages - Other 1 Not under consideration

allow user storage limit to be exceeded while saving journaled objects

Allow user storage limitations to be exceeded while saving journaled objects.Lets assume we have one or more users with limited storage MAXSTG(). This user owns a library and a journal. When saving objects in the library, journal entries Y/YS or D...
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 4 Not under consideration

libHBAAPI.a in AIX has hardcoded max num adapters (set at 32) - needs to be increased or made a dynamic table (as per RHEL)

For AIX versions AIX 7.2 (actually AIX 5.3 and above) libHBAAPI.a (devices.common.IBM.fc.hba-api) define the max number of devices is set using the following define (in san.h): #define HBA_MAX_NUM_ADAPTERS 32 In AIX, in libHBAAPI.a a fc port is eq...
almost 3 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

HMC Security Concern with initial login screen

The TSA (Transportation Safety Administration) customer has advised that their Security Team would like to have the initial login screen modified in the HMC code to the remove the information displayed which indicates the number of managed systems...
almost 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 5 Planned for future release

errpt summary report type "T" column is ambigious

When you run an errpt summary report, the T column (error type) is one column. There does not appear to be a unique character for each type of error: I for INFO , P for PEND , P for PERF , P for PERM , T for TEMP , and U for UNKN. The P is ambigio...
almost 2 years ago in AIX 0 Planned for future release

Feature to add comments on maintenance mode , displayed in the hosts tab

We are many to work on PowerVC , including IBM workers who need to operate on hosts for upgrade purposes or replacing parts. Sometimes we need to act on hosts but we see that it is in maintenance, but we don't know who put it in this mode, or even...
almost 6 years ago in PowerVC 2 Future consideration

Provide a secure AIX provisioning process

Modify the AIX provisioning process so that TFTP and NFS are not required and AIX use HTTPS or another secure protocol.
almost 7 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

Small Independent Disk Pools

The idea is to enable the configuration of small independent auxiliary storage pools from partial disk units on a single IBM i server. This idea appears to be similar to the ability to create micro partitions and host many IBM i instances on a sin...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / Storage 2 Not under consideration

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