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Allow DCL-S within enum to support exact parameter passing

I would find it useful to use ENUMs with Exact parameter passing. At present, anything within an enum is implicitly defined using "DCL-C". Exact parameter passing requires variables to be defined as being LIKE the same parameter type, and so an en...
11 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 1 Future consideration

Allow a "FOR SYSTEM NAME" for CREATE ALIAS

DevOps providers want to be able to fallback and restore implementation objects of SQL objects. CREATE ALIAS creates a *FILE DDMF in the library but we are not able to control the implementation name. This requires a lot of processing to make sure...
13 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Future consideration

Provide visual indication when IWS web UI is busy

When the IWS server web UI is doing work, there is no visual indication that it is busy when managing deployed services. Providing a busy indicator will make managing deployed services much easier because we will have an indication when processes ...
18 days ago in IBM i / Web Serving 1 Future consideration

Support value parameters for programs

Sometimes it'd be useful to be able to change a parameter in the main procedure of a program. This feature could internally be implemented by transparently copying a const parameter into a local variable. For example this dcl-pr myprog extpgm('*LI...
23 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 1 Future consideration

Allow manually deleting DB2 temporary indexes

Now that we have QSYS2.MTI_INFO and its visibility into DB2 temporary indexes, we are trying to clean them up and manage them better. We only IPL every 3 to 4 months. We created permanent indexes to replace a lot of temporary indexes, but they app...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Future consideration

Port IBM Db2's Vector AI to IBM i Db2

Vector search is popular in the databasing community. It's there on MongoDB Atlas and others, including Db2 Version 12 Mod Pack 2 (June 2025) for LUW. (Meant to put this at "Medium")
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Future consideration

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...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / System Management 1 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...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / BRMS 6 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 2 months 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.
2 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Future consideration

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