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    Native AIX syslog function should support encrypted logs when forwarding to a central syslog server

    In this day and age of OS security-awareness and its importance within operating systems (being available out of the box), critical OS logging functions such as syslog should support encrypting the logs if they need to be forwarded to a central co...
    2 days ago in AIX 0 Submitted

    Subfile size 32767 rows.

    Because the data to display are much more than in the past, we need to extend the maximum number of records allowed from 9999 to 32767.
    13 days ago in IBM i / Application Development 0 Submitted

    Provide an API to extract the DSPPGMREF information

    There currently is no API to get the output of DSPPFMREF which makes extracting and development of tools cumbersome. There's *OUTFILE support but this is not flexible enough as it requires an intermediate step that complicates things like building...
    19 days ago in IBM i / Application Development 0 Submitted

    More than 10000 lines in the System Debugger

    We have (very) few big COBOL programs generated from an old 4GL generator. Theses programs exceed 10000 lines so we cannot acces to all the lines, and then we need to run STRDBG to debug them. We will be pleased to have more lines (20000 would be ...
    21 days ago in IBM i / Application Development 0 Submitted

    `xargs` should support `-0`/`--null` parameter

    xargs on AIX currently does not implement -0. While this is not part of the POSIX standard ( AFAIK, please check), it is implemented by every other implementation, including FreeBSD's. While the OSS toolbox's implementation /opt/freeware/bin/xargs...
    22 days ago in AIX 0 Submitted

    Mitigate security risk VOLATILE TE - tsd entries after efix installation

    This IBM Idea is was earlier posted https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/AIX-I-778 with my old company name, but now we changed the name from to ASNbank I could not monitor this idea any longer. Therefore summitted this idea again. Original submmited: Why ...
    26 days ago in AIX 0 Submitted

    Create a "Code for IBM i" Extension for JetBrains PyCharm (similar to the one for Visual Studio Code)

    Currently, the "Code for IBM i" extension is available for Visual Studio Code, enabling developers working on IBM i to benefit from a modern and integrated development environment. However, many developers also use JetBrains PyCharm for their proj...
    28 days ago in IBM i / Application Development 2 Submitted

    Fail the compile when source information cannot be inserted into the object

    When a module is created, the source information is inserted into the object description. There can be a situation where the source cannot be allocated to fetch the information. Instead of failing the compile, the source information inside the obj...
    about 1 month ago in IBM i / Application Development 1 Submitted

    Support *IAS to be created on an iASP

    Currently an Integrated Application Server is not suppported on an iASP, For customer wanting to use an Integrated Application Server in an iASP environment this forces them to create it on *SYSBAS which more or less is not in line with the idea b...
    3 months ago in IBM i / Application Development 1 Future consideration

    Use a complex_lock (read/write) instead of a simple_lock for the demux lock.

    With etherchannel configuration including 4 ports and multiple queues the high packets is causing demux lock contention. while using complex_lock ( read/write ) this issue will be resolved.
    3 months ago in AIX 0 Submitted

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