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V7R3 to V7R5 Cross-reference PTF .csv

Can IBM provide the V7R3 to V7R5 cross-reference PTF list in a .csv format, similar to what's available for V7R4 to V7R5? To my knowledge, the V7R3 to V7R5 cross-reference list is currently only available in .pdf.
8 days ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 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...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Submitted

AIX secldapclntd and LDAP load module should successfully recognize and interpret the FreeIPA time stamp format

FreeIPA LDAP server, also know as Red Hat Identity Management, software stores password change time stamps in this format: krbLastPwdChange: 20200929123058Z That appears to be a YYYMMDDhhmmss format. AIX's secldapclntd LDAP client and LDAP load mo...
about 2 years ago in AIX 1 Future consideration

Performance Cycling at 12:00 AM on multiple Lpars cause CMC Enterprise core usage to peak lasting 800 microseconds giving very high average core usage

Let.s say you have purchased IBM CMC Enterprise Pools2.0 concept, and you have license for 10 core and 1 core credit. Your average per minute usage is between 6-7 core all day. But a 12:00 AM when performance collection is cycled on all your ibm i...
3 months ago in IBM i / Performance Tools 1 Submitted

Run multiple Managed System Firmware Updates Concurrently

To update the Firmware on multiple Managed Systems under the same HMC running the updlic is currently not allowed. Last night I had to update 5 Managed Systems and it took ~1hr per frame. It stated at 9:30pm and ended at 3:43am the next day. If th...
9 days ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

Define time zones time zones by User or by Job

Being able to use the same OS for People who work in different parts of the world at the same time. USA and ENGLAND The ideal thing would be to be able to do a CHGJOB of the Job and change the Time Use, so that all the programs can pick up the co...
10 days ago in IBM i / Core OS 0 Submitted

New feature on i Navigator to double confirm after click OK

Dear team, We found when accessing 'file shares' from i navigator, after clicked browse and OK, it will save the new folder directly. Is that possibile to modify or create a feature which would pop to confirm 'whether save the change' after click ...
10 days ago in IBM i / Other 0 Submitted

Reduce the referenced fields in RPG's outline view

RPG's outline view lists as referenced the fields (or data structures) used in LIKE or LIKEDS. Would be useful having an option to filter this type of references since, usually, are not needed. The benefit of this change becomes very apparent when...
17 days ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Future consideration

Implement qsys2.Http_get for blob file

I think then the new sql function for http_get are really interesting, fast and above all there isn't java! I started use it instead of systools funcion, but I need an http_get that allow me download binary files like .zip . Please implement it! M...
about 1 year ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 8 Future consideration

Enable no-auditing of /tmp like QTEMP

Please change audit code to not audit any activity in /tmp direcotry when system value QAUDLVL has option *NOQTEMP set - or by adding a new option *NOIFSTMP. As this directory is to be used for temporary files by design like objects in QTEMP this...
9 months ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 8 Future consideration

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