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101 VOTE

Link Aggregation NIC adapter replacement without service interruption

When replacing a NIC that is part of an Ethernet Link Aggregation configuration, it is necessary to temporarily disable the Line description on IBMi OS. As a result, the IP address is deactivated, making a service outage unavoidable.Although Power...
8 days ago in IBM i / Core OS 2 Submitted

Custom SQLSTATE/MESSAGE for SIGNAL statement

Currently it is possible with the SIGNAL statement to return a custom SQLSTATE and message. DECLARE COUNTRY_NOT_FOUND CONDITION FOR SQLSTATE '02000'; DECLARE EXIT HANDLER FOR COUNTRY_NOT_FOUND SIGNAL SQLSTATE '75001' SET MESSAGE_TEXT = 'Country no...
4 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 0 Submitted

Enhance IBM SQL Services to use better "list" parameter parsing

I’d like to request an enhancement to IBM i SQL Services to improve flexibility when passing multiple values to parameters that accept lists. Currently, the following syntax does not work: table(qsys2.active_job_info(subsystem_list_filter=>'QIN...
4 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 0 Submitted
246 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 ...
6 months ago in IBM i / Storage 2 Submitted

Add more functionality to *VAR and *AUTO arrays

I really love the new *AUTO and *VAR arrays, I use them quite often. I would really like more functionality to be added, like the methods available for JavaScript arrays. Some examples assuming an Array "A20" with dim(*auto:20) : I gather a set of...
1 day ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 0 Submitted

Follow up for CVE-2024-27275 and ACS - > Database Maintenance with Function Usage options

With the recent changes to restrict *PUBLIC from *USE to *EXCLUDE in regards to files created in QRECOVERY for db administration tasks like reorganizing tables (physical files), table alters and index rebuilds, would it be possible with the except...
6 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Submitted

Insert scripts from custom examples

Hello, after installing version 1.1.9.7, I can't insert my custom scripts; In the previous version there was a button that did that. Is there a new option to do so? Thanks in advance
5 days ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Functionality already exists

WRKFCNUSG Auditing

It would be nice if any adds/changes/deletes that occur when using the WRKFCNUSG process would be tracking in the Security Audit Journal for the logical replication apps can keep the authorities in sync between SRC and TGT replication sets.
5 days ago in IBM i / Security 1 Functionality already exists

Give the possibility to use CREATE TYPE statement

Add unique constraint on a field. For example : Create a weakly typed distinct type named BONUS that is based on an INTEGER data type and represents a percentage which cannot exceed 100. CREATE TYPE BONUS AS INTEGER WITH WEAK TYPE RULES CHECK(VALU...
29 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Future consideration

Review multithread capability for OS commands

In these days where access to the IBM is no longer restricted to 5250 sessions, batch jobs etc., the usage of multithreaded applications is becoming more prevalent. This includes, but is not limited to, PASE & SSH. Whilst those environments ca...
6 days ago in IBM i / Core OS 0 Submitted

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