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BRMS Enterprise Services

BRMS Enterprise Services - Seems to be issues with the way the node policy works and developers notice issues but developers are stating the product is working as design. Node policy is running for all partitions in the environment although they a...
about 5 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 2 Not under consideration

Virtualization of crypto on AIX

Virtualization of crypto adapter for System p similar to what System z has today.
over 10 years ago in AIX 6 Not under consideration

In Db2 Web Query SCHEDULER, enhance screen to allow Execution ID to be changed.

Use case for this is DeveloperA makes a report and places on schedule. Later, it is determined that the USER-ID executing the report (i.e DeveloperA) must change. Perhaps, when report and schedule moved from TEST to PROD, or User has moved to new ...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Db2 Web Query 5 Not under consideration

XML-INTO: Add new option to clear DS before loading

Add an option to XML-INTO that clears the DS before parsing the XML data into the DS. This option should work similarly to EVAL and other "assignment-type" functions.Data Structures are typically used to temporarily store XML data prior to taking ...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 3 Not under consideration

CRTDUPOBJ command update a status file or periodically send a message to the job log that indicates the percent complete

There isn't an interface to the CRTDUPOBJ command that allows us to monitor the status, nothing found in Advanced analysis too, So have the CRTDUPOBJ command update a status file or periodically send a message to the job log that indicates the per...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 4 Not under consideration

QID 11 Hidden RPC Service

QID = 11 Title=Hidden RPC Service Severity=2Impact = Unauthorized users can build a list of RPC services running on the host. If they discover vulnerable RPC services on the host, they then can exploit them.Threat= The Portmapper/Rpcbind listens o...
over 7 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

Allow embedding of DB2 Web Query reports in other webpages

Currently DB2 Web Query sends X-Frame-Options SAMEORIGIN in the header which prevents embedding reports in other webpages if the host and port does not match. There is curenlty no way in DB2 Web Query to modify this behavior. To maitain security p...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Db2 Web Query 3 Not under consideration

A "copy special" option within Run SQL Scripts which will copy your selection as a single line

This would be useful for copying a query from Run SQL Scripts and pasting into a CL program RUNSQLSTM command for example. The query formatting in Run SQL Scripts is very useful for working with the query, but sometimes we need to condense the que...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Future consideration

WebQuery Output selection

we want to have an option to disable or remove the "Excel Formular" and "Excel Formular (xlsx)" from the User Output Selection. In WebQuery Adminconsole is no option to disabe this. Use Case: we want to have an option to disable or remove the "Exc...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / Db2 Web Query 4 Not under consideration

Allow PowerVC to reflect Profile Changes made to the LPAR profile on the HMC.

This will be very helpful when changing any profile configuration on an LPAR. From what we have seen this is not working today. also when changes are made to a LPAR profile you have to unmanage and re-manage the LPAR in powervc. this can be extrem...
over 2 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration