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Add the ability to generate an ERD (Entity Relationship Diagram) to IBM i Access Client Solutions (iACS)

Deprecated Navigator used to have the ability to generate database maps and I'd like this ability back in iACS. Just had a new person start this week and trying to get them started and this lacks. Not a good first impression on their exposure to I...
9 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i Submitted

IFS and folders properties

When handling IFS, when an object's properties are requested, all are returned very quickly except the size and number of objects and folders. The size and number of objects are updated fairly quickly, but if the folder contains a large number of ...
about 7 hours ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family Submitted

Provide a programatic interface to reset prestart job statistics

There are SQL interfaces to review prestart job entries and prestart job statistics; these statistics are useful for prestart job tuning, particularly INLJOBS. The tuning can be done programmatically with the CHGPJE command. However, once INLJOBS ...
about 14 hours ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging Submitted

VMRM lpm_support implementation is confusing

With VMRM HA 1.9 SP1 i change lpm_support to disable: # ksysmgr query system lpm_support: disableThe confusion is that for HG and Host it shows 'None' instead of 'disable': # ksysmgr query host Name: host1 Lpm_support: None # ksysmgr query host_gr...
2 days ago in VM Recovery Manager Submitted

Include Specific Entry Type in SYSLOG Output from QSYS2.DISPLAY_JOURNAL

Description: When generating SYSLOG output using the QSYS2.DISPLAY_JOURNAL function, the resulting information only includes the journal code and the journal entry type. However, it does not include the specific entry subtype contained in each ent...
3 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i Submitted

Global option to prevent cron from sending mail to users

If a command in someones crontab generates output to stdin or stderr and is not redirected a mail is geneareted to the user who ownes the crontab. While this might have been a good idea 30 years ago, it can cause serious troube in modern environme...
22 days ago in AIX Submitted

Authority Collection data should include successful checks, even when the user is the OWNER of the object

I ran into a strange behavior when using authority collection. Scott Forstie was able to confirm that it's currently working "as coded". However, I think it should be changed. When a user profile successfully accesses an object, and that user prof...
10 days ago in IBM i / Security Submitted

make it possible to use regular expressions in HMC systems-view-panel search

the HMC systems-view search is very helpful when working with a bigger number of sytems/LPARs/VIOS connected/managed to HMC.with the search you can reduce the view to the sytems/LPARs/VIOs you are planning to work with.this helps to speed up work ...
about 1 month ago in Hardware Management Console Submitted

Typed pointers in RPG: Stronger type safety for pointers

Currently, RPG has exactly two types of pointers: Basing pointers Procedure pointers These pointer types hold no type information about the pointer's target. Currently, when defining a BASED variable, the compiler cannot verify that the vari...
3 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG Submitted

General-Velocity-360-Wave-Compact-Disk

It's use for Free hand Terabytes as well as Petabyte's
3 days ago in Power Ecosystem Software / Retail Submitted

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