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IBM i

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Enhance Password Complexity Rules

Add capability in password system values or QPWDRULES to include passwords may not contain...Any Part of a Users Full nameContext Specific words, such as the name of an application/service/departmentDictionary words in any language
about 11 hours ago in IBM i / Security 0 Submitted

Allow LIKEDS in parameters defined in SQL UDF or UDTF

Allows ability to work at data structure level, templated, replicating the structure and ability to use eval-corr BIF where applicable to move from one structure to another (output). Simple example: take journal data (JOESD) as input and provide t...
5 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 0 Submitted

Allow for Synchronous Policy Based Replication (PBR) on IBM Storwize

With the recent version of IBM Storwize, metro mirror - synchronous replication - is no longer available for IBM i. This version allows for policy based replication (PBR) or policy based High-Availability (PBHA), both asynchronous. In order to get...
6 days ago in IBM i / Storage 0 Submitted

The possibility to add a secondary ip address in the ASP COPY DESCRIPTION configuration.

It is useful if your primary management port on the SAN is unreachable for some reason.
8 days ago in IBM i / PowerHA 0 Submitted

Add WHEN-IS-NOT clause to the new SELECT statement

The traditional SELECT/ENDSL allows when a=b and also allows when a <> b. However, the new SELECT/WHEN-IS/ENDSL does not allow a negative comparison, and forces me to go back to the older style. In this shop [and others I have worked in], th...
8 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 0 Submitted

Allow to define local procedures within a procedure.

Currently you can achieve some kind of encapsulation by defining subroutines inside a procedure. It would be nice to change those subroutines into "local" --or private-- procedures.
8 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 0 Submitted

enhance the qsys2.journal_info view to return info for all recievers attached to a journal

we have a need to be able to find all "orphaned" journal receivers.
10 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Submitted

Is there any Plan to Expose API call from Ibmi.

Is there any Plan to Expose API call from Ibmi. This will be the exact reverse for IWS process, where we can define endpoints that can be called from RPGLE/CLLE call stack. Like The utility can configure the end points to call and create an object...
11 days ago in IBM i / Web Serving 1 Needs more information

Applying PTFs wrecks the Java certificate store

When we are applying PTFs then the Java certificate store is wrecked. The certificates, we have added here, are removed and every time we have to remember to add all the certificates we have added. This should be changed so the installation of PTF...
12 days ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 1 Submitted

Add a search zone in the ACS Session Manager

In the IBM ACS session manager, would it be possible to add a search box where you could enter the first few letters of the session name and only sessions starting with these letters would be displayed in the session list? Thank you
13 days ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 0 Submitted

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