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IBM i

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"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

Enable TR-31 Import / Export of AES K0-B and K1-B Key Blocks for 4767/4769 crypto cards

For important bank compliance with MasterCard, we need use to TR-31 KEY EXPORTER in KEK value with mode of use BThe used parameters are:Key block version: VARDRV‑BValue of use: KEKMode of use: ENC-DEC In the APAR OA64883 was published for Z series...
4 months ago in IBM i / Security 1 Submitted

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

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

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...
4 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 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.
8 months ago in IBM i / Documentation 3 Submitted

Provide Exit Point support for SSHD Daemon

We would like to utilize the standard IBM exit point program interfaces QIBM_QZDA* to provide control for the SSHD (SSH Daemon) provided with OpenSSH 5733-SC1. This protocol should have the same support available as Telnet, ODBC and FTP protocols ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 2 Under review

Add Native DCM support for ACME protocol (Automatic Certificate Management Environment)

IBM i 7.4 introduced APIs that support Native Digital Certificate Management, I would like IBM to build on this a deliver a natively supported ACME (Automatic Certificate Management Environment) protocol support to allow IBM i to automatically req...
11 months ago in IBM i / Security 3 Not under consideration

Include AFP Manager in New Navigator for i

The new Navigator for i does not include AFP Manager, which is most frequently used to import overlays and page segments that have been created using AFP Print Driver, now provided by Ricoh. The current AFP Manager also has functionality to import...
almost 3 years ago in IBM i / System Management 14 Future consideration

Declare UTF-8 character lenght in SQL TABLE not in bytes

Currently, when I create a new table and declare a field, for example, of type CHAR(10) UTF-8, the system only allows for 10 characters if each character is 1 byte in size. If a character occupies 2 or more bytes, the field length is no longer suf...
2 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Not under consideration

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