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IBM i

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    Request for 「No conversion」 Data Transfer Support in ACS Data Transfer

    In PCOMM and IBM i Access for Windows data transfers, it was possible to specify "No conversion" as the file type. However, ACS does not support unconverted transfers.Could you please consider adding support for unconverted transfers in ACS as a f...
    10 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 5 Not under consideration

    Modern Look for IBM Navigator for i Using IBM’s Carbon Design System

    Updating the IBM Navigator for i interface by implementing the Carbon Design System (https://carbondesignsystem.com/)— IBM’s open-source design system built on the IBM Design Language. Carbon provides production-ready code, design tools, UX guidel...
    11 months ago in IBM i / System Management 1 Not under consideration

    Integrate SAML and/or OIDC authentication options for IBMi (5250/Navigator/IFS/Printer Output/SSH)

    Many businesses are increasingly demanding that standard authentication processes are adhered to for all applications/servers within their environment. Whether we agree with that approach or not, there is extraordinary pressure to fit IBMi into th...
    11 months ago in IBM i / Security 9 Not under consideration

    Allow COALESCE to provide automatic CAST

    I have this line in a CREATE VIEW statement: coalesce(va.vaaddress1, '?Unknown') as vaaddress1, When the view is accessed using SQL embedded in ILEPRPG, the SQLSTATE becomes 01004. VAADDRESS1 is defined in a SQL TABLE as CHAR(40). It would save a ...
    11 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Not under consideration

    ACS live editor

    Using many tools that make use of SFTP and related, it is possible to go and edit objects in the ifs in real time. Given the new features it would be interesting to implement this change on ACS as well, so that it would be more complete since now ...
    11 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Not under consideration

    Expand on the Authority Collection process by logging commands that actually use the special authorities granted on user profile

    I'm trying to clean up security and while the Authority Collection process is valuable, I need to go a step farther. There are too many IDs with any combination of special authorities, and I do not have a clean way to monitor if it's needed. I wou...
    11 months ago in IBM i / Security 2 Not under consideration

    need a new QPWD system value that allows to set case sensitivity mix

    need a new QPWD system value that allows to set case sensitivity mix that aligns with the rest of QPWD* system values. We are working on align the IBMi password set with our company policy. but, As per the documentation(IBM), if we do use QPWDRule...
    11 months ago in IBM i / Security 4 Not under consideration

    Moving old data from production tables to historic tables in another library

    In an active production system such as we have being in a 24 hour service financial environment, we have an issue with old data that exists in many of our database tables. Every second new data is being recorded in this tables and old the old data...
    11 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Not under consideration

    IBM i ACS data upload type casting

    Hi, IBM i ACS is the replacment product for IBM i Access for windows. https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/633847 In Client Access for windows, it is possible to perform data download and data upload of a CCSID37 file that contains non CCSID 37 ...
    11 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

    Enable a description to be added to system reply list entries

    When you use the wrkrpyle command you see a list of Message ID's which is quite meaningless. I recently was investigating at a new site where there were a lot of reply list messages and no site documentation so I worked through the messages to det...
    11 months ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 1 Not under consideration

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