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IBM ACS IFS day of last use or configurable fields

Can you expand the listing of the IFS entries with the day of last use. Better:Make it configurable which fields i want to see. Use Case: looking for old data.
over 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Delivered

Improve Spool File support within RDP/RSE

RDP includes basic Spool File support as a "technical preview". Please enhance this to provide similar or better functionality to that found within the (free) Softlanding RSE Extensions plug-in.Support for spooled print files and messages handling...
over 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 6 Delivered

Key Management tool in IBMi Access Client Solutions

The Key Management tool within IBMi Access Client Solutions does not have the same functionality as the IBM Key Management tool within IBMi Access for Windows.Within the ACS version you can only view/delete/export signer certificates. There is no ...
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered

The use of a generic parameter for the library name does not work when trying to restore multiple libraries from a BRMS backup. At times we need to restore hundreds of libraries but the parameter only works if the library exists. We believe this is a FLAW.

IBM Development can review case TS015071289 for further reference and documentation. As stated, this generic restore option should work and it should either be removed from the command prompt OR some commentary put of the HELP text to state that i...
10 months ago in IBM i / BRMS 6 Delivered

Capability for parallel save and restore for big library with BRMS and IBM Cloud Storage Solutions for I

We are implementing an IBM i backup solution based on BRMS & IBM Cloud Storage Solutions for I and COS Servers as a replacement of ProtecTIER VTL, and deploying it on 67 IBM i 7.2 and 7.4 partitions. We absolutely need that IBM provides us the...
about 4 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 7 Delivered

DB2 for i Service to retrieve subsystem information

Please add DB2 for i SQL service to retrieve subsystem configuration information (SBSD, subsystem description). Use Case: We could retrieve all necessary information about subsystem configurations via SQL.
over 5 years ago in IBM i / System Management 3 Delivered

DCM - allow automation of Let's Encrypt certificates

The Let's Encrypt certificate authority is emerging as a free and open minimum starting point for SSL certificates. However they only issue 90 day certificates which currently would mean manually installing a new certificate at least 4 times per y...
about 8 years ago in IBM i / Security 4 Delivered

Replicate PDM compile submitted job naming

When a compile is submitted to batch in PDM, the job takes the name of the source member. When submitting a compile in RDi, the job uses the job description as the submitted job name. Use Case: Submit a compile in RDi and the job name should be th...
over 9 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 8 Delivered

I Navigator not seeing User IP address under Server port 2002

The older version of Navigator which uses port 2005 has the ability to access a user's session IP address. When you right-click on the user under the QINTER subsystem, then select Properties, you will have a list of items to select from. 'Server' ...
almost 3 years ago in IBM i / System Management 2 Delivered

Valid JSON for passing options to SQL HTTP Function

The documentation for the SQL HTTP GET function states the following: > Sets an HTTP header in the HTTP request with the specified headername and headervalue. > This option can be specified multiple times to set multiple headers. The optio...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Delivered

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