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    RTVCLSRC in SRCSTMF

    When you retrieve the source of a CLP or CLLE program you must indicate a source file, for example: QCLSRC, but it is impossible to indicate the IFS example: /HOME/USER/CLLE/ . The idea is therefore to add the SRCSTMF() parameter to the RTVCLSRC c...
    about 1 month ago in IBM i / Languages - CL (Control Language) 1 Future consideration

    Enhance QCAPCMD CL Syntax Checking to Report position of detected syntax error

    The QCAPCMD API can be used to syntax Cl commands or run them. When syntax checking, the API logs error messages in the joblog, and also returns a "Command failed" type messages to the exception/error structure. As we move to non-SEU interfaces to...
    5 months ago in IBM i / Languages - CL (Control Language) 1 Future consideration

    Add support for hpt_ratios

    Novalink supports PPT but not HPT (hardware page table), as such cannot tune memory for LPARs managed by novalink as you can on HMC managed. lshwres -r mem --level sys -F possible_hpt_ratios [PVME01040180-0024] Attribute possible_hpt_ratios is not...
    6 months ago in PowerVM NovaLink 2 Future consideration

    Add installer option to select alternate adapter to slot 3

    Clients would like to install novalink in greenfield environments and select the slot used.
    8 months ago in PowerVM NovaLink 1 Future consideration

    Allow library for Prompt Override and Choice programs to be changed to close security hole.

    Products and utilities that can be restored into any library need to be adjusted at 'install' time to properly library qualify pieces of the package. UPD[SRV]PGM SRVPGMLIB( ) and CHGCMD PGM( ) VLDCK( ) HLPPNLGRP( ) PMTOVRPGM( ) are helpful for thi...
    11 months ago in IBM i / Languages - CL (Control Language) 2 Under review

    Improvement to the DSPPGMREF command

    The command currently does not generate information about the commands used in a program.The improvement is to include information about this type of objects and be useful when performing some type of forensic analysis on the IBM i
    11 months ago in IBM i / Languages - CL (Control Language) 2 Future consideration

    Allow for MONMSG MSGID(*ALL)

    It is not possible to create a program that monitors for all messages. Examples of CL programs that want to do this are Unit Testing Frameworks, Event Dispatching frameworks, etc.. Often it is not possible to know what messages return from a comma...
    about 2 years ago in IBM i / Languages - CL (Control Language) 3 Future consideration

    Shutdown BIF, similar as SHTDN in RPG

    Add a BIF for Shutdown as in RPG. Benefitter would be CL-coder, not having to call a RPG procedure to do the check if job/subsystem/system are going down.
    about 2 years ago in IBM i / Languages - CL (Control Language) 2 Not under consideration

    Ubuntu 22.04 support for Novalink on Power10 scale-out servers

    For Power9 Ubuntu was supported for Novalink. For Power10 it is not, and only RHEL is supported and it is not free. We need to have Ubuntu 22.04 support for Novalink on Power10 scale-out servers. Ubuntu 22.04 is a long term support so it is worth ...
    about 3 years ago in PowerVM NovaLink 6 Future consideration

    Long variable names in CLLE

    Allow variables to be defined with names longer than 10 characters in CL. This will allow CL code to be more readable and potentially reference long column names in tables.
    about 3 years ago in IBM i / Languages - CL (Control Language) 2 Planned for future release

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