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    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 support for the BOOLEAN SQL data type to IBM i Access ACS Windows Application Package

    According to the ServiceLevel\readmesp.txt in the Windows Application Package it has last been updated in May 2024. So i guess the support for the BOOLEAN SQL data type isn´t implemented in the included ODBC Driver. This results in Errors when a B...
    26 days ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Functionality already exists

    RSE API's - swagger or yaml file

    Hello, Would it be possible to have the swagger or a yaml file available? This would facilitate the integration of calls to these APIs in external software capable of scripting and automating certain tasks.
    about 1 year ago in IBM i / Web Serving 1 Functionality already exists

    Copy service definition in IWS

    Provide the ability to copy an existing service definition, so you don't have to go through all the steps to define a new service when a similar service already exists.
    5 months ago in IBM i / Web Serving 1 Functionality already exists

    Create a system command to convert JSON files to physical files (PF) and vice versa

    IBM i increasingly interacts with external systems through APIs and JSON data. Developers often need to manually parse JSON into SQL tables using complex JSON_TABLE queries, or conversely serialize DB2 data into JSON for outbound APIs. My idea is ...
    6 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Functionality already exists

    Point SQL messages to the place where they originated

    When we see a message in the log like SQL0501 - Cursor xxx not open, and drill down to the details to find where the message comes from we see internal SQL references and not our program name and statement. This makes it hard to debug and fix. Ple...
    7 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Functionality already exists

    Optimizing SEU Usage: Balancing System Administration Needs and Developer Progress

    The justification for keeping SEU in the operating system is that system administrators need it to modify CL programs while in restricted state. However, maintaining SEU hinders developers from transitioning to modern, more efficient development t...
    10 months ago in IBM i / Application Development 2 Functionality already exists

    Change of name and library of SQL package in a Embedded SQL program

    Our programs are compiled on a central build server which is integrated in a CI/CD pipeline. Created objects will be saved and restored on different production systems. We have a ILE Cobol embedded SQL program which can also be used to access a re...
    7 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Functionality already exists

    Add a parameter in RSTOBJ command so we can restore files an can selecting attributes of files

    its usefull because may be you need to restore a group of large files with similar names (Like MST*) and only need to restore Physical files.something like this: RSTOBJ OBJ(*ALL) SAVLIB(MILIB) DEV(TAP01) OBJTYPE(*FILE) FILETYPE(*PF-DTA) or FILEATR...
    about 2 months ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 1 Functionality already exists

    Add mktemp utility to qshell & pase shell

    Provide the mktemp utility that is generally standard in most *nix environments. https://refspecs.linuxbase.org/LSB_3.1.0/LSB-Core-generic/LSB-Core-generic/mktemp.html
    about 2 months ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 1 Functionality already exists

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