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IBM i

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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...
almost 10 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Delivered

Allow Ability to Mass Unassign Certificates from a Service

In IBMi Digital Certificate Manager (DCM) you can assign a certificate to multiple Services in a single screen. If you need to remove the certificate assignment you have to go into each service and remove the certificate. For some certificates, th...
about 2 years ago in IBM i / Security 3 Delivered

Add property to ACS to limit access to the IFS path

Add the ability to set the ifs location of that particular ACS configuration and dont allow the users to go up from the path they started with. This would be done in the ACS properties file.
over 3 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Delivered

Device driver with multiple receive queues for family of 10GB adaptersCCIN = 2CE3.

Customer uses Virtual IP on pair of 10Gb ETHERNET adapters EN15/EN16 (CCIN 2CE3) with only one port populated/active on each card. With huge traffic when number of frames increased above 147K frames/second driver fully takes one CPU and can not sc...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Networking 3 Delivered

Adding a hyperlink to comment source code when developing in Remote System Explorer in RDi.

We use Jira as our document control/status control/issue tracker. We also put this Jira number within our source code as a comment. It will be great if we can add a hyperlink to that Jira number, so when you click on this hyperlink it will take yo...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 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...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered

ACS run SQL scripts - integration of 'Generate SQL'

'generate SQL' is now part of iSeries Navigator. It would be fine if 'generate SQL' could be integrated in 'ACS-Run SQL' directly.The benefit is that you can generate sql scripts without logged on in iNav. Use Case: 'generate SQL' is now part of i...
almost 9 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 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...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Install and Upgrade and Licensing 3 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...
almost 9 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 ...
almost 9 years ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 4 Delivered