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Visual explain in tree-grid form

It is great to have visual explain back in ACS. However, my customers complains that is is not easy to pin-point where the bottlenecks are in the graph. An alternative view would be appreciated where a tree-grid show the percentage of time in each...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 6 Not under consideration

ACS to show system description in System Select pulldown

Would like the System Selection pulldown in iAccess Client to show both the system name (which is usually the IP address) AND the description field. Use Case: Ease of administrating multiple systems.
over 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

IBM i PTF notification

Customer raise an concern on IBMi PTF notification: 1) Customer has set up notifications in Fix Central.2) Customer review IBM recommend PTFs regularly: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=nas8N1021480 However, customer noticed some of t...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 3 Not under consideration

AIX tcp_keepidle default for keep alive packets

Hi IBM, The default setting for tcp_keepidle is 14400. This equals 2 hours between keep alive packets for idle connections. Most firewalls default to 1 hour before they terminate idle connections. Would you consider reducing the tcp_keepidle to 18...
over 7 years ago in AIX 3 Not under consideration

Requesting a new attribute to increase / decrease CPU

Currently, we've a job scheduler called UC4 (appworx) which schedules jobs in our organization. This scheduler doesn't activates jobs when the CPU percentage is greater than 99%. The jobs remains in a CPU_WAIT state until the CPU % is below 99%. S...
over 7 years ago in PowerVM 1 Not under consideration

NIM fails to export /export/nim/scripts.

Please refer to PMR 15019,101,616 - NIM fails to export /export/nim/scripts.
over 7 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

RPG - Conditional (Ternary) Operator (?:) in EVAL operation

I'd like to be able to use conditional assignment (?:) in EVAL and EVALR operation in RPG. C, C#, java and many other languages have a conditional (aka ternary) operator. This allows developers to make very terse choices between two values based o...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 17 Future consideration

Add "Format Source" option to LPEX Editor save preferences.

Add option "Format source" to the "Save" preferences of the LPEX Editor. When "Format source" is checked, the LPEX Editor should format the source code before saving it. Use Case: The "Format source" option is required when using a source code rep...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Not under consideration

Allow "5-Work with" on duplicate entries in WRKJOB

Currently, WRKJOB QZDASOINIT, for example, returns a list of duplicate jobs. If you select one, you need to re-execute the WRKJOB to get the list of duplicate jobs back before selecting another one. Can the list of duplicate jobs be in the format ...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 4 Not under consideration

SSP Tier aware

Please make PowerVC be SSP tier aware, and configurable in storage templates. Give us the ability to configure tiers to be associated with projects.
over 7 years ago in PowerVC 2 Future consideration

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