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Add long username for addition to current userprofile to enable login with longer usernames on smb, ftp, web or odbc etc

With the long password we can use passwords > 10 chars.Maybe it is possible to add a additional field to the usrprf to enable logins from all others then green screen with longer usernames.
2 months ago in IBM i / Security 0 Submitted

Must Gather Tool (MGT) Command helptext

MGT is a great set of tools helping you when dealing with problems. The only thing it lacks is proper command help text. Yes there are web pages available dealing with the commands available, but they are not always up to date. When looking at the...
7 months ago in IBM i / Other 0 Submitted

Add ability to change font/size in IBM i Access product

Some of us do are not so young anymore, and do not have the eyesight required to deal with tiny fonts. On the IBM i Access Client Solutions panel, the menu options (File, Edit, View, Actions, etc.) and their drop-down items are in a nicely sized f...
10 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Submitted

Train a ChatGPT style AI on IBM i documentation and other public sources

The training should include specific documented knowledge including such sites as MidrangeL, StackOverflow, and IBM Tech Support knowledge base. IBM i is a very large product with manuals numbering in the hundreds, and many manuals follow a specif...
6 months ago in IBM i / Documentation 1 Submitted

IBM ACCESS create EHLLAPI in Excel 64-bit version

Most people today use 64-bit OS and IBM Access client, therefore EHLLAPI.DLL should also be created for 64-bit
3 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Submitted

Add Control/Device Descriptions to the monitored resources.

This would be useful as some of us have Control/Device descriptions that are tied to the application setup within the iasp. This would benefit anyone that has to go through adding /removing multiple devices due to the above process. (We have anywh...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / PowerHA 0 Submitted

Shutdown BIF, similar as SHTDN in RPG

Add a BIF for Shutdown as in RPG. Benefitter would be CL-coder, not having to call a RPG procedure to do the check if job/subsystem/system are going down.
3 months ago in IBM i / Languages - CL (Control Language) 1 Submitted

Restore useful links to IBM i Planning and remove worthless generic site.

The planning site underneath https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.5?topic=irs-related-information-installing-upgrading-deleting-i-related-software called "IBM Planning" could not possibly be any more useless. It should go to the good site. The good sit...
8 months ago in IBM i / Documentation 0 Submitted

Have a straight access (button) to system debugger on the 5250 emulator.,

Faster than opening SQL and then Execution and then system debugger...
4 months ago in IBM i / Application Development 1 Submitted

Allow more than 10000 lines on System Debugger

When debugging old COBOL programs made with a software générator, 10 000 lines is not enought
4 months ago in IBM i / Application Development 0 Submitted

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