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ACS RunSQL field list search

We use the ACS Run Sql constantly to pull data for reports and research. The F4 prompt gives us a field list for the files. Often times we have many files joined. We cannot remember all the field names of all the files on the system, but we do kno...
12 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Future consideration

Add System Name, Serial No & LPAR No to all DST/SST Screens

Please consider adding System Name, Serial No & LPAR No to all DST/SST Screens, preferably in the same place and ideally in the top line of each screen. We are seeing and increasing number of IBM i LPARs on a typical Power server, so by defini...
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 7 Future consideration

Automatic Disk space reclamation option for alt_rootvg_op command

When freeing up saved rootvg with alt_rootvg_op command it would be very helpful to add an additional option for doing automatic space reclamation to the disk subsystem where the alt_rootvg resides on.
over 3 years ago in AIX 0 Planned for future release

Log Netserver "Unknown User" authentication attempts in System Audit Journal

If a user attempts to authenticate via NetServer and the IBM i user is valid but the password is not, this results in a VP entry being written to the Audit Journal. If a user attempts to authenticate via NetServer and the IBM i user is NOT VALID, ...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 5 Future consideration

Extension of the reference manual "DB2 for i SQL Reference"

We have noticed that specifying a record format name when creating an SQL index always creates a derived index. In our case, access paths were therefore created twice. We were able to solve this problem by not specifying the record format name in ...
4 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Future consideration

LPEX highlighting of matching keywords/brackets

A lot of editors will visually highlight matching parentheses when the cursor is resting on one half of the matching items. It would be nice if the LPEX editor could provide the same for RPG code. Use Case: * Highlight matching parentheses* Highli...
almost 9 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 6 Future consideration

New Navigator for i - Shortcut to ACS 5250 emulation

It would be neat to have a shortcut to ACS 5250 emulation from the i Nav node list (or as an alternative in the menu list to the far left, when you have chosen a system in the node list/bubble view). Then you wouldn't have to start or switch to AC...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / System Management 2 Future consideration

Create a varying length field with the length from a fixed length field

It often happens that I have a field from a database og a screen that is fixed length and have to create a field that is varying length but having the same size as the fixed length. unfortunately it is not possible to do this:dcl-s fixedField char...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 6 Future consideration

InfiniBand adapters for Power10 based hardware

Customers are asking for a higher performance networking option than is currently available from the existing RoCE-capable 100 Gbps Ethernet adapters on Power10 based server models. Based on the performance seen with POWER9 based servers, they exp...
about 2 years ago in Power Systems Design 3 Not under consideration

The smbc.rte driver must be MUST more robust against IP address changes on a file server!!!!

We have a NAS "cluster" from which we're mounting CIFS shares. We must use SMBv3 to be compliant with our InfoSec department. However, when an IP changes in our cluster, it's registered with DNS, but the smbc filesystems UTTERLY lock up. They don'...
about 1 year ago in AIX 0 Future consideration