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Change or remove JRE 1.6 from ACS WAP

The current IBM Access Client Solutions Windows Application Package delivers JRE 1.6 for the use of the iKeyMan tool when installed. Being that 1.6 has been deprecated, this is now considered a critical security vulnerability for my company that I...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 7 Delivered

Display PTF group name in Summary Details of Application Runtime Expert for i PTF report

Application Runtime Expert for i (5733ARE) Add the PTF Group name in the summary details of a report. Use Case: As of current ARE level, the Summary Details displays "Group PTF SFXXXXX - Level does not meet minimum level...." Would rather know the...
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / System Management 2 Delivered

Commaon Dashboard for LPAR's using Navigator for I

Requesting for an enhancement in IBM I Access Client Solutions. IBM I Access is blessed with an option Navigator for I where we can do many useful functions using the browser and one of the options is " Dashboard" view where we can monitor the sys...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / System Management 3 Delivered

Enable Excel Table functions In Db2 Web Query and ability to specify Freeze Headings, Rows or Columns

Db2 Web Query V2.2.1 currently allows you to specify Excel as Output type for a report or for a document. In the case of a document, you can create multiple reports inside the document. When run, the document generates tabs for each report. So far...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / Db2 Web Query 2 Delivered

In Db2 Web Query for i, allow *CURRENT, &MDYY or other special values for DATE Parameter on Scheduled report.

When scheduling reports which require a date parameter in WQ, it would be helpful if the Report Scheduler of Standard Edition could use a Special Value to indicate Today's date. Currently not supported and per Support Case, scheduler is "working a...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / Db2 Web Query 0 Delivered

QMGTOOLS - FTP Command to use *IBMSDDUU FTP server: testcase.boulder.ibm.com

QMGTOOLS- By default using FTP server as *IBMSDDUU: FTP.EUREP.IBM.COM which allows only port 21 and it is blocked in on our client servers, So we modified the QMGTOOLS/FTP2IBMCMD, FTP to IBM command to use TESTCASE.BOULDER.IBM.COM which allows HTT...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 5 Delivered

CHKENVRCY - Add functionality to check logical files that don’t have Access Paths Maintenance journaled

For Smart Assist tool CHKENVRCY add functionality to check for logical files that don’t have Access Paths Maintenance journaled
over 2 years ago in IBM i / PowerHA 2 Delivered

Modernize host server by IP routing functionality

I would like to see the older capability to route by IP address modernized and enhanced. In i7.3 (and TRs for 7.1 and 7.2), new functionality was added to route host server jobs by the user name, managed entirely using SQL Stored Procedures. (Refe...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 5 Delivered

Please, port "jq" command to IBM i

Please, port "jq" command to IBM i OSS / YUM so we can parse JSON using scripting. Use Case: We could use jq to transform JSON files into CSV
about 6 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 2 Delivered

Add "Display Environment Variables" to Work with Job Command

Add OPTION(*ENVVAR) to the DSPJOB and WRKJOB commands and corresponding OPTION(*SELECT) Menus. Use Case: Working with CGI/Web app jobs, there is NO way to view the current Environment Variables (created view putenv() API) for any CGI job, or any j...
about 8 years ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 2 Delivered

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