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IBM i

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Allow IBM Web Administration to create two IAS Servers with the same port block.

The IBM i Web Administration GUI (HTTPAdmin) currently restricts the ability to create more than one server that shares a port in use by another server (HTTP, IAS, Web Services, Websphere). If one was to try to create a WSERVICE1 server that liste...
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 3 Delivered

Support AIX pollsets on i

While porting Mono, I noticed the only options for "fast" socket management are select/poll. AIX has a plethora of (varyingly old) options when it comes to improved alternatives. Of these, the pollset API is the newest and currently recommended ch...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 1 Delivered

5733-ARE PTF "Fix Action"

We want to use product 5733-ARE to distribute PTFs from an Central System to our production systems.Afer we created an report of PTF differences, it would be great if we could just upload savf of missing PTF without loading and applying them autom...
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / System Management 2 Delivered

Allow keyboard shortcuts on the password about to expire message in the 5250 emulator

When the ACS 5250 emulator displays the "password about to expire, do you want to change it" message, you have to use the mouse to click Yes or No. Please provide keyboard shortcuts so that you can just press Y or N to answer the question. The Win...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Delivered

Increase QNTC Buffer size to 32768 from current 16384

I would like to see QNTC directory access be made available to 32768 shares, which is double the current 16384. This is due to a buffer limitation in the QNTC code. It would involve essentially doubling the size of the available buffer. Use Case: ...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 4 Delivered

Content Assist - Show Decimal Positions

When using content assist to see the definition of a numeric variable, it displays the numeric type (packed, int, etc) and the total length of the field, but does not tell you how many decimal positions it has. I would like it to display the decim...
almost 14 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Delivered

ACS General Font Size

The opening screen of ACS when opening acsbundle.jar has a fixed font size. At times that is very small and I can barely read the screen. We need to be able to change the font size via the view menu for this and any of the ACS screens. Today only ...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 5 Delivered

Preserve case when using the F4 prompt function in RDp on fixed format lines

Many programmers are now writing RPG code in mixed case (or lower case) for readability. When I use the F4 prompt function in RDp on an existing or partially completed F or D spec, the program changes the case of the specification type and any fie...
almost 14 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 7 Delivered

Enhance strong typing specs

ILE and especially RPG should provide means to force strong typing to satisfy specific requirements. There is a medium urgency for parameters declared CONST, but, in my opinion, there is an urgent requirement for type checking regarding data struc...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 5 Delivered

Prompt for DBMonitor running when selected to delete.

ACS Database Monitors component.If a DBMonitor is running and I chose to delete it, it just smokes it.I'd like to to prompt me with a message, "Monitor is running, do you still want to delete it?" or something to that affect. Odds are, I don't wan...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered

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