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Creating virtual ports as a way to bypass physical port level validation

Live Partition Mobility for NPIV clients requires that both (active and inactive) WWPNs for each virtual Fibre Channel adapter must have been zoned to the exact same storage port WWN on the switch/SAN and must have been defined to the storage arra...
almost 6 years ago in PowerVM 0 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...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

Expose TTY IHOG and OHOG values to tuning

When working with large amounts of text, it is easy to overwhelm the TTY buffers. This logs TTYHOG OVER-RUN errors. In AIX 3.2, this could be set using an stty command, but that has been removed since. Setting it can now be accomplished via ioctl ...
almost 2 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

I Access Client solutions printer session - Print multiple copies

Currently, there is no way to have the printer sessions print more than one copy. On Windows 10, the printer session even ignores printer settings on the numbers of copies to print on all print jobs. So, there isn't even a way to force multiple co...
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

To be able to export process approval data

This would be useful so that you can pull data together on all the maps that you have and you could see which maps have been approved, the date that they were approved and whom by. This would benefit editors in being able to identify which process...
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 3 Under review

aixpert check_report.txt rotation

aixpert has always had a check_compliance argument (-c). Among other areas, such as stdout, aixpert also appends results to the file /etc/security/aixpert/check_report.txt. This file "grows and grows" and has the potential to fill the / (hd4) file...
almost 6 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

IBM i Access Client Solutions - Config Output

Please consider functionality of downloading IACS System Configuration fields to Excel spreadsheet. Use Case: Asset management of live LPARs and their corresponding hardware, software and HMC/FSM/IVM managed devices.
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

Provide "Refactor" and "Hide unreferenced definitions" without Live Outline

Currently, when editing RPG programs, the "Refactor" and "Hide unreferenced definitions" capabilities are available only when the "Live Outline" Preference is set on ("Update the Outline view when text is changed in the editor"). It would be nice ...
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Not under consideration

Hide vendor password on GENLICKEY

When using the GENLICKEY (to generate a license key for a licensed program), the vendor password can be seen while typing in. Please change the field to non-display so evesdropping is not possible. Use Case: When using the GENLICKEY (to generate a...
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / Install and Upgrade and Licensing 2 Not under consideration

Capture MAC address in QAUDJRN with QAUDLVL *NETSCK

The *NETSCK audit level already provide information about socket connections made to the IBM i server, which includes from-and-to-IP-addresses. However, it does not capture the MAC address from where the socket request comes from. The reason why t...
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / Networking 1 Not under consideration

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