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IBM Navigator for i - Disable multiple user profiles over multiple systems/LPAR's.

If a person leaves the company, it would be useful to disable the userprofile over multiple systems/LPAR's, instead of deleting the user profile.
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 0 Submitted

Add an option to prevent QDLS from being used

IBM is recommending to stop using QDLS since 2010. Symmetric Multi Processing and using QDLS are also not a good combination. Sun setting QDLS is maybe a bridge to far, but giving the option to prevent QDLS from being mounted during the IPL, is ma...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 2 Submitted

ACS > run sql scripts allow reconnect to change profile

In ACS > run sql scripts > reconnect > default to current user but, allow the user profile to be changed for the connection. This will help with testing out different sql scripts with different profiles.
about 2 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

aclput -R --ignoredirectory -i mycl /dir

I need to apply an AIXC ACL to the thousands of files in a directory tree as quickly as possible. The aclput -R command seems usable, but it also applies the ACL to the subdirectories found in the tree. As the acl is defined with rw-rw---- permiss...
7 days ago in AIX 0 Submitted

RSE API's - swagger or yaml file

Hello, Would it be possible to have the swagger or a yaml file available? This would facilitate the integration of calls to these APIs in external software capable of scripting and automating certain tasks.
3 months ago in IBM i / Web Serving 1 Functionality already exists
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Provide sum of energy consumed and system temperature to HMC

Energy and environmental aspects are getting more and more into focus when discussing datacenter efficiency The Power High-End (in a minimum P10 and future and maybe P9 as well) systems should be enabled to expose temperature and energy charts th...
about 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

Correct the way AIX NFS4 client constructs its clientID, so that it is persistent across LPMs, as it is required to be.

Current behavior/design Currently, the clientID generated by AIX NFS4 client can possibly change after an LPM. This is because of the current design. In the current design, NFS4 client uses the nodeID as a part of the clientID, and the nodeID can ...
about 2 months ago in AIX 1 Submitted

GENERATED_SPREADSHEET with kerberos and password *NONE

In an evironments with kerberos and users with password *NONE the scalar funcion doesn't work (MSGSY0271), it would be great if this limitation didn`t exist.
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Under review

AIX community edition for QEMU/KVM

AIX will remain the leading UNIX operating system for mission-critical environments for many years to come. It has performance, security and ease of administration features that make it a very interesting option for new deployments complementing t...
9 months ago in AIX 1 Under review

%repeat as a BIF in RPGLE

Now we have the nice string function like %upper,() %lef(), %right() .. etc. and this is just great !! let's continue this toolbox for string functions: Just like the SQL scalar function REPEAT it would be appreciated to have the equivalent functi...
5 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 1 Future consideration

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