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    Journal receive encryption

    After a discution with a Db2 expert about RCAC implemenation, it appears that after an update of a journalized table, the corresponding journal entry can be fully displayed with a simple DSPJRN command. Is it possible to add a new option at the cr...
    18 days ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 0 Submitted

    Add a "Last Active" Timestamp or number of elapsed seconds since the last activity for a Job to WRKACTJOB and QUSRJOBI API

    While we know that interactive jobs have an inactivity timer on them, the Work Active Jobs (WRKACTJOB) and the corresponding API do not provide us with information on how long a user hasn't had an interaction with the 5250 session or a batch job h...
    3 months ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 1 Not under consideration

    Increase UIM limit for WRKACTJOB

    If there are more than 69927 jobs in a WRKACTJOB list, the usage of F7 Find would result in CPD0976, if the job is not within the list.This would cause abit of annoyance as alternative method would have to be use to achieve the same result
    6 months ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 0 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

    Restrict Powerdown system command to run from Interactive environment

    The PWRDWNSYS command is utilized within the environment to either shut down or restart the partition as necessary. This process is overseen by the technicians responsible for maintaining the platform. However, I have observed a potential security...
    7 months ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 3 Not under consideration

    Add Column of Configured Maximum number of jobs on Active Prestart Jobs

    In the latest TRs, V7R4 TR11 in our case have been included some additional columns that also included the Peak in Use! It would be very usefull to also have an additional column with the configured Maximum number of jobs per PJ, so we could easil...
    8 months ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 1 Functionality already exists

    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

    Enable a description to be added to system reply list entries

    When you use the wrkrpyle command you see a list of Message ID's which is quite meaningless. I recently was investigating at a new site where there were a lot of reply list messages and no site documentation so I worked through the messages to det...
    8 months ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 1 Not under consideration

    Pick up the workload group from the job description for a user profile when swapping in a prestart job

    In an environment with a large number of service user profiles accessing the system for a large number of different applications, workload groups provide the ability to control CPU resources at different levels for different applications. The work...
    12 months ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 1 Future consideration

    On the SBMJOB command add option to include database overrides

    It would be nice to have something like the CPYENVVAR(*YES) but for OVRDBF/OVRPRTF to include any overrides that are in the current job stream carry over to the submitted job. Currently these isn't a API or SQL Service to even read the files that ...
    about 1 year ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 2 Not under consideration

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