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Please cross check how many installs of ACS there are on a PC

Today, I had a user that was given 5250 and print file access. They needed access to the IFS. They figured that they could add a button to the screen and that gave them access to the IFS without authority. I also found the desktop person had insta...
23 days ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

IBM i - Add ZStandard (ZSTD) to compression algorithms when saving and restoring with SAV* / RST* commands and BRMS

ZSTD can provide a high compression ratio with a low CPU usage. We could compress image catalog files (tape and udf) using ZSTD faster than GZIP or PIGZ, and using less CPU. This could improve backups to remote image catalogs, some VTLs (QuadStor ...
23 days ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 0 Submitted

HMC delivering rperf calculation

Would simplify and speed up the process to gather this info, which will be helpful in the sizing of new customer environments and comparison of customer environments.
23 days ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

Automatic increase of maximum allocation value during resize of JFS2

During expansion of a file system the following error may occur: # chfs -a size=+100G /myfs0516-787 extendlv: Maximum allocation for logical volume myfs_lv is 512. In this case administrator must manually execute chlv -x <some value> myfs_lv...
24 days ago in AIX 0 Submitted

IBM i ACCESS FOR WEB product is not under your consideration a step back for the future

Hi I am afraid to kwon that the IBM i Access per Web (5770-XH2) product is not under your consideration . It is the only way to access, with native software, an IBM i with a BROWSER and it has e very lot of functions to help customers and programm...
29 days ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Submitted

IBM i Access Client Solutions(ACS) Data Transfer Download to Excel Spreadsheet change from .xls to .xlsx

The Data Transfer to Excel is still using the old .xls(1997-2003)(65554 limit) instead of .xlsx. You have to download it as a .cvs and then load it to a spread sheet. This would bring ACS to using a current format with out the limit of the old .xl...
30 days ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Functionality already exists

Way to check if microcode updates are already installed

Microcode updates are usually delivered as rpm files. After installing RPM files the new microcode is available in /etc/microcode. Using the command diag it is possible to install new microcodes from /etc/microcode. Sometimes the two processes - i...
about 1 month ago in AIX 0 Submitted

Allow mount point on HMC for iFix update selection in GUI

In the new GUI a mount point on the HMC is selectable for both POWER firmware and HMC upgrades (where access to a remote file server or local storage device is not available). However no such option is available when applying an update iFix to the...
about 1 month ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

"Shared Processor Pools Thresholds" sitting at the bottom of CM settings page is unusable due to dropdown box being cut off by the browser border.

"Shared Processor Pools Thresholds" dropdown box, especially when you have multiple MSPPs, does not fit into the small space at the bottom of the page and it is cut off, leaves rather very narrow space to work with. If you try to scroll the page, ...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Management Console 0 Submitted

avoid Event 3066 with signed IBMiAccess WindowsAP

Event 3066 is reported for IBMiAccess_v1r1_WindowsAP_English_1.1.0.27 Event 3066: This event records that a code integrity check determined that a process (usually lsass.exe) attempted to load a particular driver that did not meet the Microsoft si...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration