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    Whitelisting STRPCCMD commands

    Since iACS version 1.1.9.16, a security prompt is displayed every time an STRPCCMD command is launched. This is IBM's response to CVE-2026-14275. Many users are calling Help Desk as they are unsure if they should accept or deny. Most commands we a...
    4 days ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 0 Submitted

    CHKEXPBRM don't show local partition content

    Hello !!! This command, CHKEXPBRM, lacks a specification for which machine/partition, SYSNAME, it should check for tapes; currently, it identifies all available tapes across all machines/partitions—a total of 8—whereas XXXX requires only one tape ...
    10 days ago in IBM i / BRMS 0 Submitted

    Title: Transform Services (WSCST *PDF) ignores DDS UNISCRIPT: Arabic, Hebrew and Indic text is unreadable in the PDF but prints correctly

    Idea description DDS printer files support complex scripts through UTF-16 fields (CCSID(1200)) with TrueType fonts (FONTNAME) and the UNISCRIPT keyword. UNISCRIPT gives shaping, bidirectional ordering and normalization (ICU, 5770-SS1 option 39), a...
    about 2 hours ago in IBM i / Print 0 Submitted

    AFP to PDF on IBM i: pass JPEG images through unchanged as is and second store each image once per document

    IBM i applications create PDF documents from AFPDS spooled files in two ways: Transform Services, through CPYSPLF ... WSCST(*PDF) or OVRPRTF WSCST(*PDF); PSF with PDF output (CRTPSFCFG/CHGPSFCFG PDFGEN), which uses the Infoprint Server IPDS-to-PDF...
    about 2 hours ago in IBM i / Print 0 Submitted

    UNIVERSAL ADVANCED HIV, AIDS & STI PREVENTION, TREATMENT, MARRIAGE AND GLOBAL RELATIONSHIP PROTECTION INTELLIGENCE SYSTEM Submission Type: IBM Ideas – Healthcare Innovation, Artificial Intelligence, Public Health, Medical Research and Digital Health Infr

    UNIVERSAL ADVANCED HIV, AIDS & STI PREVENTION, TREATMENT, MARRIAGE AND GLOBAL RELATIONSHIP PROTECTION INTELLIGENCE SYSTEM Submission Type: IBM Ideas – Healthcare Innovation, Artificial Intelligence, Public Health, Medical Research and Digital ...
    about 16 hours ago in Power Ecosystem Software / Health Care 0 Submitted

    Graficos creado en Navigator for i puedan ser consultados por otros

    los Gráficos que se creen en navigator for i, puedan ser compartidos para que otros usuarios los puedan consultar, adicional a ello si el gráfico tuvo algún cambio llegue una alerta a un correo.
    about 18 hours ago in IBM i / System Management 1 Future consideration

    Prevent LPAR Activation while IOR LPAR is active

    IOR LPAR activation takes place when the system is powered on with the option "Hardware Discovery". If any LPAR is activated before IOR operation completed, IO adapters in the LPAR's profile disappears - if they are "desired". And there is no warn...
    2 days ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

    ILE CL unmonitored DUMP give Message Text like OPM CL

    When ILE CL program abends for Unmonitored error and Operator types in a 'D' for Dump, it doesn't give the Message Text info like OPM CL did. I found an article about putting logic in each program to do it, but why can't we have an Dump option lik...
    2 days ago in IBM i / Languages - CL (Control Language) 0 Submitted

    Runtime reflection for variables in ILE languages: new BIF/API to retrieve variable metadata (type, length, precision)

    Synopsis Provide a supported, performant way to obtain metadata about variables at runtime in ILE programs. It can be a language-level built-in function in RPG or a system API callable from any ILE language. Problem statement ILE RPG offers only a...
    28 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 8 Functionality already exists

    End-to-end FC SFP Diagnostics via Read Diagnostic Parameters (RDP ELS)

    Background info Current-generation Fibre Channel adapters expose SFP transceiver diagnostics, which are readable from the OS.On IBM i, the fcioa -sfpinfo macro in SST/DST already surfaces this data.With the November 2025 GA of V7R5 TR7 and V7R6 TR...
    2 months ago in AIX 16 Submitted

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