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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 ...
about 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...
about 2 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

Vios - enhance lsnports command to provide more info

Enhance the command lsnports so that it displays additional info that what is shows already I would like to be able to see Customer Added info (From the odm) added by maybe a chdev to add a description field for each lsnports entry to show me (fab...
about 8 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 2 Not under consideration

Add Kerberos Authentication to RDP

Rational Developer for Power Systems needs to support Kerberos Authentication. This is necessary because our systems are being used to service federal contracts where Kerberos Authentication allows us to meet FISMA requirements. IBM introduced Ker...
over 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Not under consideration

Free the Node.js runtime from obligatory UTF-8 encoding

The Node.js runtime does a wrong conversion of ideographic characters like german umlaut and italian accented letters.Characters are written like this:Päbra -> PÀbra Delbrück -> Delbrück Please free the Node.js runtime from obligatory UTF-...
about 8 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 2 Not under consideration

User defined fixed journal entry data

While user, job, and program are helpful in auditing of journal entries, they have limited use on server jobs where multiple clients and sessions connect and change data from a pool of jobs (http server for example). Enhance the fixed length optio...
about 8 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 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...
about 2 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 3 Under review

VIO Readonly access to oem_setup_env

Requesting a solution for a VIO Readonly access to the full oem_setup_env environment.
about 6 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 1 Not under consideration

Keep multi-line DCL-S lines together when sorting

The "sort" command does not take into account DCL-S code spanning mutliple lines even though we have to key the semi-colon as the line end marker. Unlike the previous D-specs in fixed form it "seems" like it should be easier to determine ALL the d...
over 10 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 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...
about 2 years ago in IBM i / Networking 1 Not under consideration

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