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IBM i

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ACS - HMC 5250 System Console - ability to set a default host code page and also set a default language/country on the "Welcome to Remote 5250 Console" screen.

When using the HMC Probe utility to open a new ACS HMC 5250 system console, the host code page always defaults to 037 even if the default.hod session profile ("<documents>\IBM\iAccessClient\OpCon\Sessions\hmc\<hmc_hostname>\s\default.h...
3 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Future consideration

Support the new BOOLEAN SQL data type in ACS Data Transfer (Upload to IBM i)

Currently, data transfer (upload) fails if any field in the table is of type BOOLEAN.
5 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Future consideration

Add Update Version Check to ACS Emulator

Currently the version update check (when option is enabled) only works from the "main screen". Add an option to perform the test when the emulator is started. Outside of developers, most users have a limited number of IBM i servers to connect with...
15 days ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Functionality already exists

Insecure HTTP Response Header Configuration Target(s) : xxxxxxx.com:2003/Navigator

We have external audit and according their finding lis we sould solve this trouble. I created a normal support case TS016304722 and this request was recommende.
2 months ago in IBM i / Web Serving 5 Future consideration

"Mail from" address in SMTP email design change to allow user and domain name in lower case.

Currently the design has hard coded setting that forces Upper Case on user and domain name in SMTP on Mail From.
about 1 year ago in IBM i / Networking 2 Under review

IBM i DCM - Last used timestamp for each certificate

For the purpose of housekeeping the certificate stores in IBM i DCM, it would be very useful to enhance DCM to be able to show the "Last Used Time Stamp" and also "Use Count" for EACH certificate in the store so that system admin can efficiently s...
about 1 year ago in IBM i / Security 3 Future consideration

Add availability info (version/release/TR) to Info Center

Please add availability info to RPGLE BIFs, SQL functions/procedures, catalog views and IBM i services (like table functions, etc.). Some information like: Available since 7.3 TR 2 and 7.4 This would make it easy to check backward compatibility.
7 months ago in IBM i / Documentation 3 Submitted

When using Navigator for i (Nav4i) add the function used in the tab name in use by Nav4i in that tab.

Navigator for i is a great tool to manage your IBM i environment. It allows you to use several tabs, but all those tabs have the same name IBM Navigator for i. When having a tab open for: Inquiry messages Custom Charts ARE Console Active Jobs Perf...
5 months ago in IBM i / System Management 2 Future consideration

Make joblog displayed in RSS Messages window LIFO instead of FIFO or even better make it optional

With the introduction of IBM Services more and more system administration tasks are moving to SQL scripting. In those SQL scripts CL commands are used using the syntax "CL:". Also the scalar function QSYS2.QCMDEXC is used. When running commands in...
5 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Future consideration

Add an option for an SSL trusted store in odbc.ini for use with the IBM i Access ODBC Driver

We have an issue using SSL with the IBM i Access ODBC driver and IBM App Connect Enterprise 12. You can read about it in case: TS015080103 and TS014801648. We want to use an option to add the CA certificates to the data source in odbc.ini, somethi...
6 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 8 Future consideration

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