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Solution to input Chinese character in Win 10 to Power System I

Due to the limitation of IBM emulator as Client Access (PC, i Access for Web, ACS) running in Win 10 (which provide only Unicode Chinese Input Method), we cannot input those chinese character that contains more than 2 bytes through those Client Ac...
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

Option to disable automatic selection of Restrict search to selection

A previous RFE requested that RDi find text work like standard Eclipse find text. Part of that was the automatic selection of the "Restrict search to selection" checkbox if you have lines selected in the editor. I would like to disable that option...
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Not under consideration

WebQuery customize login page

We want to customize the WebQuery login page.e.g. to place pics on it or place some text information on it. Use Case: We want to customize the WebQuery login page.e.g. to place pics on it or place some text information on it.
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / Db2 Web Query 7 Not under consideration

CL Command to control Database Statistics

The Update Statistics Collections (QDBSTUS, QdbstUpdateStatistics) API has a way to set the "block system statistics collections option" -- I would like a simple way to do this through CL (either a new command or an enhancement to CHGPF). If a new...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Not under consideration

Allow to execute Commands directly from RPG without the QCMDEXC interface

Similar to EXEC SQL, to do EXEC CMD or EXEC CL. Variables will be in the format &var1 like in CLP or :var1 like in SQL. Use Case: EXEC CMD CPYF FROMFILE(FromFile) TOFILE(QTEMP/Myfile) INCREL((*IF COLUMN1 *EQ &var1)) RTVSYSVAL SYSVAL(QSRLNB...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 4 Not under consideration

AIX IPsec DH Group 21

Please could we have DH Group 21 support added to the AIX IPsec implementation. Maybe also 20, though we would go straight to 21 if it was available since z/OS supports it.
almost 2 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

Problem whit the discs paramitters on AIX 7.2 TL5 SP2

we have found that upgrading to AIX 7.2 TL5 SP2 changes the disk policies. We think that this is a big problem, because we manage hundreds of servers, and if we change the reserve_policy with chdev, then every time a technician adds a disks to a c...
almost 4 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

netmon.cf: ICMP request SRC-address

Description: Since updating cluster installations from AIX V7.1 TL3 SP5/PowerHA V7. 1.3 SP3 to AIX V7.1 TL4 SP2/PowerHA V7.1.3 SP5 we observe a different behaviour in the "ping" tests, originating from netmon.cf. On the older release only the sour...
almost 8 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Not under consideration

iseries managementpak for SCOM

provide a managementpak for integration in microsoft systemcenter operation manager (SCOM).it would be a great benefit for iseries to provide a basic functionality for SCOM integration. Use Case: provide a managementpak for integration in microsof...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / System Management 2 Not under consideration

Be sure a CPU a device is attached to is present in the LPAR

When a device is attached to a LPAR, there is no guarantee that the CPU this device is attached to will be part of the LPAR. This leads to device with no specific numa node, confusing script managing irqbalancing like the Mellanox one and probably...
almost 6 years ago in PowerVM 1 Not under consideration