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Context-Aware “Next Action” Guidance for Job Outcomes (No Additional Messages or Alerts)

Business Justification The IBM i platform already captures comprehensive job information, including job status, job logs, and spool files. However, users must rely on experience and manual navigation to determine the appropriate next step after a ...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Other Submitted

Changing behavior QIBM_QSH_CMD_OUTPUT

The environment variable QIBM_QSH_CMD_OUTPUT does not perform any conversion between EBCDIC and UTF-8; the only way is to use the > operator to redirect the output.
22 days ago in IBM i / Other Submitted

Enhance QTE* Debug APIs to support batch jobs

Enhance QTE* Debug APIs to support batch jobs. It works great when using the QTE* debug APIs on an interactive job but not batch jobs when using the STRSRVJOB command.
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Other Submitted

Enhance QUHRHLPT API with an *ALL Help ID option

I would like to request an enhancement to the QUHRHLPT API to support a special value of *ALL for the Help ID parameter. Currently, applications using QUHRHLPT must already know and explicitly provide each individual Help ID in order to retrieve a...
17 days ago in IBM i / Other Submitted

exit point QIBM_QZDA_INIT exit program should have the remote IP address to be passed to the exit program

I had ticket TS021932458 open because I am writing code for this exit point to log and block connections to the database. In order to get the ip address of the remote client you have to call qusrjobi api which as I discovered can return incorrect ...
20 days ago in IBM i / Other Submitted

Empty QSYS/QS9MENUCE Menu and Continued Availability of Pre‑V5R3 Electronic Service Agent Menu Access

This is a remnant of the Electronic Service Agent from the 5798RZG LPO that was integrated into the base operating system, likely around V5R3. There are two traditional Electronic Service Agent menus, GO SERVICE and GO SERVICECE, that still persis...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Other Submitted

Add column for IP address when looking up Writers and Remote Writers

Finding and changing the IP address of a printer on a device description or an output queue has been traditionally very difficult to do, especially in an environment with lots of printers and no one knows the name of the printer on IBM i. I would ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / Other Submitted

IBM needs to identify access paths for self-training on IBM i

Free access IBM i systems like PUB400.COM have up to the present been critical in the community at providing venues for self-training in IBM i. I and others in the community consider it absolutely necessary that such venues continue, and the IBM t...
8 months ago in IBM i / Other Submitted

Addition of Journal Code/Entry type description table

I'd like to suggest adding a table to QSYS2 with the contents of the help text for Journal Codes and Journal Entry Types. If we were to combine this table with DISPLAY_JOURNAL it would provide a greater amount of context to queries against journals.
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Other Submitted

Add FSFC Full System Flashcopy option for holding Advanced Job Scheduler jobs

There is a parameter for holding regular scheduled jobs in the default IBM i job scheduler, but there is not one for the (newly free of charge) Advanced Job Scheduler. We would like one.
10 months ago in IBM i / Other Submitted

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