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Enhance QWCCVTDT API

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almost 2 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 1 Not under consideration

ACS Monochrome

I wish to see Access Client Solutions (ACS) to have an option to display 5250 as monochrome instead of colors. Make reversed colors into black background and white font. Simlar to monochrome twinax monitor of old days. High Contrast would be appre...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Not under consideration

ACS plugins need to stop grabbing the ALT key when user ALT-TABs to an ACS plugin

Stop grabbing the ALT key activity when user presses ALT-TAB and then activating the menus. Use Case: On Windows platforms user press ALT-TAB, one to many times, to cycle through a list of open programs. The users then releases the ALT-TAB keys wh...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Is a defect

Change RSCT scripts from ksh to sh/bash

Hi Team, SUSE has announced that it will end support for ksh in SLES 12 on March 2022 as per the link https://www.suse.com/releasenotes/x86_64/SUSE-SLES/12-SP1/.Many of the TSAMP and RSCT scripts are still using ksh e.g. getsadata, samreset, SAMAd...
almost 4 years ago in AIX 3 Not under consideration

Enhance the POS keyword to support a location of *NEXT similar to OVERLAY.

The OVERLAY keyword is required when its "field" parameter is the data structure name. However OVERLAY does not allow *NEXT for the position of that field, a hard-coded value must be specified otherwise it defaults to 1. The POS keyword support ov...
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 4 Not under consideration

loginherald script in AIXPERT does not accept customized herald message

AIXPERT subsystem supplies a ksh /etc/security/aixpert/bin/loginheraldto setup login herald in /etc/security/login.cfg but script has restriction that it use hard coded default loginherald message. see line 105 of script chsec -f /etc/security/log...
almost 4 years ago in AIX 0 Planned for future release

support #pragma once in C/C++

Please add support for the non-standard but widely support #pragma once. It's way more convinient than regular include guards and would make porting software easier.
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / Languages - Other 2 Future consideration

Inability to specify min/max in compute template when using dedicated CPU

When a system is deployed using powerVC as dedicated processors. The min/max value is also getting set as the desired value. This is preventing us from changing the CPU dynamically on the running system. If there a way to deploy the template for d...
over 5 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Add FC-NVMe N-Port ID virtualization support to Power9

In October, 2022, IBM announced N-port ID virtualization client support for FC-NVMe which provides ANA support for storage that support it (like NetApp). AIX 7.3 TL1 delivers enhancements that can help you respond faster to business demands: Impro...
almost 2 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

Need to be able to use chfs to move filesystem to support internal snapshot when it is created to support an external snapshot

As of now AIX wont support chfs to move filesystem to support internal snapshot when it is created to support an external snapshot. Customers need to recreate the filesystem if they want to use internal snapshot. Since with filesystem created for ...
almost 2 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

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