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Search all spool files in a output queue

We have a output queue which contains a spool file for each customer order we receive. We occasionally need to search those spool files for a customer number to see the order at the time it was originally sent. I currently go through each spool fi...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / System Management 4 Future consideration

Blocking ?UAK expired events log? call out for Customer China Unionpay

Customer China unionpay has over 100 9119-MME E870 system running production, the UAK expired events log call out every 180 days for every single E870 system. For the over 100 system, customer have to update UAK new license with very high frequenc...
about 5 years ago in Power Systems Design 1 Not under consideration

Automatically add PHA cluster to KSYS setup

It would be useful if the Setup of the KSYS server would automatically create a single node PHA cluster.
about 5 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 1 Not under consideration

Separate System journals and logs on CHGCLNUP

There are lots of system journals that do not need to be retained for as long as we retain the system log. It would be nice to specify clean up of these two items separately on the CHGCLNUP tool Use Case: CHGCLNUP could be set to purge system jour...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 3 Not under consideration

Enhancement IWS rest api swagger

Show the output fields in SQL api
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Web Serving 1 Not under consideration

AIX Toolbox

More software teams are using the Linux tools in the AIX Toolbox. There is no coordination between these teams. It is very frustrating when tyring to install software such as WebSphere when the GUI installers require Linux tools in order to work.W...
almost 7 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

Position line selected from COBOL outline more usefully

PMR (or SR) 36551,422,000 actually dealt with which editor view was positioned from a selection in the outline. This is a request to have the selected line appear at or toward the top of the editor window. Currently, the selected line (paragraph,s...
almost 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 7 Not under consideration

OIA space display while the cursor is in G type field

Request: On ACS 5250 display emulation in Japanese, OIA space needs to indicate Double Byte Kana input is activated while the cursor is in G type field. Details: OIA space correctly indicates Double Byte Kana input is activated while the cursor is...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

VMWare TOOLS HMC

We need the vm TOOLS in HMC appliance to shutdown guest on VCenter and compatibility to work with Backup Systems.
almost 7 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Not under consideration

Screen/Print Designer allow setting properties on multiple selected fields

In the Screen and Report Designers we cannot select multiple fields and change common properties. This functionality was available in CODE Designer. For instance, on a screen, we want all headings a certain color. In Screen Designer we have to mak...
over 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Not under consideration

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