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Allow default setting of 'home' and 'shell' user attributes

Some customers will have their system's users defined remotely through LDAP or a similar module; these users might be defined on Windows AD, for example. Although typically there should be the ability to set a user's home directory and shell on th...
almost 3 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

AIX find command fails to exclude namefs filesystems with the -fstype jfs2 flag

When using the AIX find command to limit searches to JFS2 filesystems (-fstype jfs2), namefs mounts are not excluded, eg. #find / -fstype jfs2 -name foo will search jfs2 AND any namefs mounts.
almost 4 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

Smaller barcode size required in 5770TS1

System: Product 5770TS1Actor: Barcode size 0.007 required for barcode reader Description:Currently we are using a non IBM developed application for converting spoolfiles to PDF-Files. On most documents provided for our customers (for example: quot...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / Print 3 Future consideration

include MAN pages for SAMBA PTF

since SAMBA support is installed using the open source toolset, it would be most helpful for the MAN pages to be included. Use Case: since manpages are supported with opensource installed, having the man pages will help if configuration help is ne...
almost 3 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 1 Not under consideration

ILE Swift

Extend the suite of ILE languages to include Swift Support Use Case: Bridge the gap between the growing pool of swift developers with the IBM i platform.
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 8 Not under consideration

Length of last field (numeric) in .fdfx not honored

During file upload (data transfer), for numeric fields, the length parameter for the last field specified in the .fdfx file is ignored, and instead all digits to the end of the record are attempted to be placed in the corresponding IBM i field. Th...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

Include DDM File based-on object information in the QDBRTVFD API

Today, when using QDBRTVFD to retrieve information about a DDMF (DDM File) the based on information returns only the Record Format name, not the file or library (or member) over which the DDMF is pointing. This occurs even when the DDMF is pointin...
12 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Future consideration

IBM i VPM client partition backup on DataDomain VTL - add TS3500 support

System: IBM i V7R4 - Virtual Partition Manager (VPM)Actor: User needing new feature Product DellEMC DataDomain is a commonly used product that provide Media Library emulation. Actually, the only emulation usable and certified for IBM i is the TS35...
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 2 Not under consideration

ACS library list

JDBC Config needs some way to identify the library list being used by the app. If we choose "Use library list of server job" can the screen show that list so we will know what it consists of? If we don't want that list can there be some indicator ...
almost 3 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 5 Not under consideration

ACS: Option to show description next to System

When we add a new system most of us use the IP address, not the FQDN or hostname on our DNS or hosts table, and the real system name is on the description. It would be great to have the option to show the description next to the system name to imp...
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Functionality already exists

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