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Increase Ease of Bringing System Monitors Online

Problem Statement When the System Monitor service is down (either shutdown or post IPL) each system monitor needs to be activated individually and through the Navigator for i interface. Solution Request In addition to being able to bring the Syste...
23 days ago in IBM i / System Management 1 Future consideration

Copy User Profile - No Option to NOT copy TOTP

Problem Statement When copying user profiles to other systems through Navigator for i, there is no option to NOT copy their TOTP. To reduce TOTP re-use and better align with best security practices; this operation should be disabled by default and...
23 days ago in IBM i / System Management 2 Future consideration

Send backup volumes to two different COS buckets without having to double the space needed.

Good-morning, Use case: Customer is doing backups with BRMS, and they want to have the backup volumes in two different buckets, one bucket in Madrid and the other in Frankfurt. The only way to do this at the moment is to use DUPMEDBRM, but with DU...
25 days ago in IBM i / BRMS 4 Future consideration

Add a field in the SYSTEM_STATUS* SQL services that shows the whether the LPARs Attention LED is on or off.

In the current services:SYSTEM_STATUS view, SYSTEM_STATUS_INFO view and SYSTEM_STATUS table function. The ATTENTION_LIGHT light column only shows whether the SRC panel has a SRC in it. The manuals were recently updated to reflect the correct defin...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Future consideration

Add Applied Date to PTF Group Currency Service

IBM i 7.6 included an enhancement to DSPPTFGRP command to show the date the PTF Group was applied. Please add this Applied Date to the IBM PTF Group Service.
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Future consideration

when using the /PLUGIN=checkupdates show the current and target version, ie 1.1.9.8, of ACS

please show the system name or directory location from where the update is originating. this will be helpful to make sure of the target version that is being updated.
about 1 month ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Future consideration

please add function "odd" and "even"

would be nice to have a function returning whether a number is odd (function odd) and whether a number is even (function even). I know it can be done with mod(field, 2) but for documentation purpose it is better to read odd(field) or even(field) i...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Future consideration

add a field in QSYS2.LICENSE_INFO that shows the "P- group" for the listed licensed program product.

There currently exists a field "PROCESSOR_GROUP" in the SQL view QSYS2.LICENSE_INFO, which is the processor group for the server the software is currently installed. the new field should more closely align with the column "PROCESSOR" in the output...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Future consideration

BRMS 2 - for duplicated tapes, display the source and destination of the duplication

With BRMS, you can see which band is the source and which band is the target for duplicated bands under wrkmedbrm. With BRMS2, you can only see that the band you.
about 2 months ago in IBM i / BRMS 1 Future consideration

RPG manual - %subst() start position and length in double bytes for graphic or UCS-2

The RPG manual needs a clarification for the %subst() build-in-function. For graphic or UCS-2 data the start position and length should be specified in double bytes. This is not documented.For the old SUBST operation it is only noted that the star...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 2 Future consideration

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