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IBM i

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Fixentral Downloads of Machine Code updates are limited to 25 per day, Automate request to download beyond the stated limit

As an outsourcing provider managing numerous customers and hundreds of LPARs, we frequently encounter challenges due to the current restriction of 25 machine code downloads per day.This limitation significantly impacts our ability to perform essen...
3 months ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 34 Under review

Add the ability to change IFS journal inherit flag regardless of journal state

When you set the inherit flag for a directory when starting journalling there is no way to remove that flag without ending journalling, starting journalling again without the flag set and then ending journalling again. You also cannot change the f...
about 23 hours ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 0 Submitted

Enable block nesting in Cobol source members (OPM as well as ILE)

Ctrl-Shift-O (Show Block Nesting) and Ctrl-Shift-M (jump the cursor to the beginning or end of a code block) are very useful shortcuts when it comes to editing block statements (e.g. an IF/ELSE block) within RPG. Both shortcuts however do not work...
1 day ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 0 Submitted

enable interactive user and password authentication on sftp client

It would be useful to have the same possibility that is present on all other Windows and Linux systems.
13 days ago in IBM i / Networking 0 Submitted

Allow MONMSG RMV(*YES)

When running CL programs, the joblog contains a lot of messages that are not relevant to the process. For example consider this code snippet below which leaves message cpf9801 in the joblog. On the other hand, `monmsg cpf9801 exec(do) RMV(*YES)` w...
6 days ago in IBM i / Application Development 0 Submitted

Allow calculated values for CONST and INZ

Currently, only hard-coded values ​​are allowed when initializing a variable or constant. dcl-c BIT31_EXC_SENT const(2147483648) ; dcl-c BIT31_EXC_SENT const(x'80000000') ; or dcl-s BIT31_EXC_SENT uns(10) inz(2147483648) const ; dcl-s BIT31_EXC_SE...
13 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 0 Submitted

Automate add or update of Certificate instead of manual process in DCM

A new process is being implemented reducing the number of days a certificate will be valid. Apple, Google and others are already implementing this. https://www.digicert.com/blog/tls-certificate-lifetimes-will-officially-reduce-to-47-days In 2 week...
7 days ago in IBM i / Security 1 Submitted

Have the host in the APis response

Hello,In RSEAPIs, you can connect to a host partition. Would it be possible to have at the start of jsons in response to operations the host on which the action took place : {"host": "localhost", ....} or {"host": "MyHost", ....} Depending on the ...
7 days ago in IBM i / Web Serving 0 Submitted

Typed constants

It is possible to type enumerations, that is, the constants within the enumeration. However, it is impossible to type a constant outside of an enumeration. Compilation OK : //1. Typed & qualified enum dcl-enum ACTION char(3) qualified ; dcl-c...
13 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 1 Not under consideration
248 VOTE

Machine pool minimum size setting for path switch.

Please refer to TS005543906(CritSit(MEC)) . The system is configured with multi-path storage via SAN switch. The serious problem (5250 telnet terminals dropped) happened when the system did path switch. It was because the lack of machine pool and ...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Storage 4 Not under consideration