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Locking objects on both systems in an Active-Passive environment - Db2 Mirror

Currently, locks are replicated in an Active-Passive Db2 Mirror environment. Is it necessary to lock objects or replicate locks exclusively or at the record level in the passive environment? If locking could be avoided in the "PASSIVE" environment...
11 days ago in IBM i / Db2 Mirror 0 Under review

Review multithread capability for OS commands

In these days where access to the IBM is no longer restricted to 5250 sessions, batch jobs etc., the usage of multithreaded applications is becoming more prevalent. This includes, but is not limited to, PASE & SSH. Whilst those environments ca...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Core OS 0 Under review

Enable F4 on the remove image catalogue entry so KEEP can be set to *YES

While the RMVIMGCLGE provides an option and is the default to KEEP(*YES) the associated image catalogue file the 4=Remove option in WRKIMGCLGE provides no option to keep the associated file. This is inconsistent and has resulted in image files bei...
3 months ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 4 Under review

Add Function Usage to RTVSYSINF

It would be great if the Function Usage (WRKFCNUSG) values could be integrated into the Retrieve System Information (RTVSYSINF) data collector. This would simplify data transfer to new systems via Save/Restore without the risk of forgetting values...
3 months ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 1 Under review

IBM Cloud CLI option for IBM i

It would be great to have an IBM Cloud CLI ported to IBM i. This would allow to run snapshots, exports or queries to the cloud billing without living IBM i LPAR. I can also imagine some kind of orchestration between on-premise and cloud LPARs.
3 months ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 0 Under review

Add an environment variable to control the behavior of WRKACTJOB F14 function

I am doing a H/A switch and many tasks are not available due to restricted state. Therefore suggestions such as using Navigator or Run SQL Scripts are not applicable As part of this switch I need to check for the presense of certain prestart jobs...
4 months ago in IBM i / Core OS 1 Under review

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...
4 months ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 1 Under review

IPv6 - Provide default gateway configuration for SST LAN adapter interface

It is not possible in the existing OS releases to configure the default gateway for IPv6 interface in SST LAN interface. The only way how to make IPv6 interface working for this interface is to configure a LAN switch with auto discovery setup whic...
4 months ago in IBM i / Networking 3 Under review

DATA-GEN multi types (polymorphic) during serialization possibility

Handle cleanly new modern APIs that allows for multiple "types" (say mainstream Microsoft Graph API ) usually inside an array (i.e. array of different things to attach to a chat message etc.). JSON doesn't restrict particulars types in - say - arr...
5 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 2 Under review

Schedule tasks of the Service Agent under an IBM i OS user profile

When the Service Agent is activated you have the option to a use the Job Scheduler. Since IBM i 7.5 this can be the traditional Job Scheduler (WRKJOBSCDE) or the Advanced Job Scheduler (AJS). When executing this command the jobs are scheduled usin...
6 months ago in IBM i / Core OS 0 Under review

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