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IBM i

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Add the ability to edit existing Intrusion Detection Policy Propertys

It doesn't appear like the ability is present to alter an existing Intrusion Detection Policy once it is created. In our case, we were looking to add to the list under "Specify a list of remote ip addresses to exclude for this policy" (which is fo...
12 months ago in IBM i / System Management 1 Delivered

Recover space on thin provisioned disks

IBM i doesn't currently support TRIM or UNMAP primitives which would allow the OS to mark space as free for the storage to reclaim. This limits the benefits of Thin Provisioning since once space is consumed it is never recovered during the life of...
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / Storage 2 Delivered

ACS Console shortcut

The new Access client solutions does not allow a console shortcut to be created to the desktop. Can one be created. As we start installing the console software, this has been their one complaint. Thanks. Use Case: some users require convenience an...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered

User interface is required to find out license usage throughout all partitions on a server

It sometimes happens that the license usage (e.g. for Web Query Developer licenses) on a server with several partitions cannot be tracked correctly by the user. So licenses are used on a different partition but the customer doesn't know which part...
about 7 years ago in IBM i / Install and Upgrade and Licensing 3 Delivered

Include snippets in push to client

The push to client feature is a nice addition to reduce the work required when creating a new workspace, especially when upgrading to a new release (re-using a workspace between releases can cause issues so I always create a new one). However, thi...
about 9 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Delivered

BRMS Syncing issues due to changing entries on QUSRBRM/QA1AMM

The QA1AMM is getting updated for every open and close of the blocks processed on tape. This is to update the latest used date/time in the QA1AMM file. Due to these updates on QA1AMM file, the QUSRBRM/QJ1ACM journal entries were piled up. In my en...
about 5 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 3 Delivered

iACS Schema view sort database view language dependant

when using "schemas" window and open a schema, the possible selections / object types is sorted by its english name. In german language "Auslöser" (trigger) is listed at bottom as well as "Ansichten" (views).Only a little thing but sometimes confu...
about 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 6 Delivered

Iseries - Huge amount of error messages going to qsysopr msgq that are irrelevant to the operation of the iseries

Error messages: CPI1131 CPI1133These error messages are generated when a user let's their interactive 5250 session timeout and are based on two system values which are QINACTITV and QINACTMSGQ. These messages fill our QSYSOPR msgq to the point tha...
about 8 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 4 Delivered

Apple Mac Os Support in Netserver

At the moment it ist not possible to access a IFS Share correctly via Netserver from Apple Mac OS X.There are only shown 34 Objects(directories, files) per directory in Mac OS Finder. Switching between smb, smb1,smb2,smb3 or cifs in Finder has no ...
about 8 years ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 4 Delivered

Connection Export/Import - reset connection profile

I need a Y/N/Checkbox option on the connection import window to wipe out the connection profile setting while importing. Use Case: You have provided the ability to export our connections and import those connections. I have gone thru the effort to...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered