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PCL 6 Manufacturer Types and Models needed

When printing through a printer session set up to use Host Print Transform ( HPT ) to a PCL6 ASCII printer, nothing physically prints on the printer. This happens using both IBM i Access Client Solutions ( ACS ) and IBM i Access for Windows. Use C...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Print 13 Future consideration

Allow Standalone Field Declarations to Reference Subfields of Nested DS Arrays

Declaring a standalone field with a reference field (keyword: LIKE) should work if the referenced field is a subfield of a data structure array in a nested data structure. Use Case: dcl-ds DS_A qualified template; dcl-ds DS_Arr_B dim(10); field1 v...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 5 Not under consideration

Is there any Plan to Expose API call from Ibmi.

Is there any Plan to Expose API call from Ibmi. This will be the exact reverse for IWS process, where we can define endpoints that can be called from RPGLE/CLLE call stack. Like The utility can configure the end points to call and create an object...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Web Serving 1 Needs more information

Applying PTFs wrecks the Java certificate store

When we are applying PTFs then the Java certificate store is wrecked. The certificates, we have added here, are removed and every time we have to remember to add all the certificates we have added. This should be changed so the installation of PTF...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 1 Submitted

ACS - Database Table Functions

Allow me to edit the contents of a table from the ACS Database context. I can View, Clear, Copy, Initialize and Reorganize Data but not Edit the content. Use Case: This option is heavily used by our database administrators in order to view and man...
about 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Not under consideration

ACS Run SQL multiple Systems in one window separated by tabs

Currently, in ACS in order to run SQL statements on multiple systems you need to open each System in a separate window. I would really like to have the possibility to group those systems into one window separated by Tabs.
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Future consideration

Improve PowerHA SVC/FlashSystem ssh access security model

Today PowerHA requires unrestricted the Admin role via SSH to manage the copy relationships on SVC/FlashSystem family storage. In todays modern security environment this is unacceptable to have a full multitenant array have unrestricted SSH access...
over 1 year ago in PowerHA for AIX 0 Submitted

Defaults for Dcl-pi;

Parameters for programs and procedures are declared with Dcl-pi. Today it requires to to give the name or *N. But for programs and procedures that does not return a value - it would be appreciated if that was not required and could default to *N a...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 3 Future consideration

Debugging in RDi should require only one step over EXEC SQL statements

It would ease debugging if we could compile programs with compile option DBGVIEW(*NOSQLSRC) No SQL source. This would skip over all embedded sql statements but still would allow them to run. Use Case: This saves time when you are debugging program...
about 5 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 10 Not under consideration

Add netmasks into ftpaccess.ctl

/etc/ftpaccess.ctl controls access to FTP service on AIX. Now you can specify only single hosts in the "allow:" line, separated by commas. Netmask values like "10.0.0.0/8" or "10.0.0.0/255.0.0.0" can't be used. FTP doesn't recognize hosts in the n...
4 months ago in AIX 0 Submitted