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ACS RunSQLScripts - Release cursor lock on full table read or inactivity

Select statements executed through RunSQLScripts window place a Shared Read lock until a new statement is read or the window is closed. This can interfere with many methods of processing to include allocate lock exclusive, copy file with replace, ...
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 7 Delivered

Provide an IBM i Service to return information similar to DSPACTPJ

DSPACTPJ has useful information for tuning the performance of prestart jobs. However, there is no outfile support on this command, nor is there an equivalent API. It would be nice to return this information in a manner that can be used programmati...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 4 Delivered

ACS RSS add new line for Ctrl+Shift+down arrow

In many edit tools duplicating the last line creates a new line in the file. ACS Run SQL Scripts (RSS) only appends the line text to the end of the file. When duplicating the last line always insert a new line character before appending the duplic...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Delivered

High getattr() calls against /etc/passwd while accessing files owned by LDAP-defined users

We have observed that list command ( ls –l ) against file(s) owned by LDAP user is causing 10x more getattr calls to /etc/passwd file comparing to same list ( ls –l ) against file(s) owned by LOCAL (/etc/passwd) defined user. LDAP user – is a user...
almost 6 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

Deploy VM with exsisting LUN by PowerVC

When deploying new VM with PowerVC, new volumes for boot/data are created. But in some cases, customer would like to deploy new VM on existing volumes, but this is now allowed by today's PowerVC as far as I know.So, I request a function to deploy ...
about 6 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

Navigator should allow 'Clean up PTFs' for all Products.

System: IBM iRelease: 730Product: Navigator for iDescription: Customer uses Navigator for PTF management, they would like to 'Clean up PTFs' for all products. Currently they have to select each product one at a time, would like the function to do ...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / System Management 6 Delivered

Make copy possible from RSS joblog

When working in IBM i Access Client Solutions Run SQL Scripts you have a button to view the joblog. We use SYSTOOLS.LPRINTF a lot to add additional information to the joblog. We use it to facilitate the checking to building a string of data. As a ...
10 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Delivered

HMC Key Length of Self Signed Certificates

According to our information, at the moment and on the latest HMC version (V9R2M950) the key length of self signed certificates is fix and 2048 Bit (RSA) and 256 Bit (ECC), respectively
over 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Delivered

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

Routing Work by User Profile results in two CPIAD09 Message in QHST, both sent from a job in QUSRWRK

When routing work by user profile, using the QSYS2.SET_SERVER_SBS_ROUTING() service, there are two CPIAD09 messages in QHST. The first one is sent from an intermediate job running in QUSRWRK, the second is sent for the job running in the configure...
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 14 Delivered