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Allow EVAL-CORR to accept a procedure return value of a data structure type (likeds)

Today, EVAL-CORR only accepts data structure operands on both sides of the assignment. When a procedure returns a data structure defined with likeds, the return value cannot be used directly as the right-hand operand of EVAL-CORR. Developers are f...
4 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG Submitted

Add to OBJECT_STATISTICS a column to inform us if a library is an IBM library

A new column would be added to OBJECT_STATISTICS called something like IBM_OBJECT. A value of 'YES' or 'NO' would be used. At present there does not appear to be an easy or definitive way of determining if a library belongs to IBM. SELECT OBJNAME ...
5 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i Submitted

Log invalid authentication attempts by user profiles with a password of *NONE

IBM i should be enhanced to log invalid sign-on attempts made against user profiles configured with PASSWORD(*NONE), and these attempts should be handled in a manner consistent with other failed authentication events. Today, these attempts are eff...
29 days ago in IBM i / Security Submitted

Permission to create a CLONE as a separate permission

Currently, the CLONE permission is included in the default roles. Please remove the CLONE permission from the default roles and make it available as a separate role. This change is necessary to prevent partitions from being copied without restrict...
17 days ago in PowerVC Submitted

Need to add "-g" flag to viosupgrade like alt_disk_mksysb

Basically when a New NVME disk is replaced and the system is not rebooted yet viosupgrade fails with alt_disk_mksysb with below error 0505-212 alt_disk_install: System checks indicate that hdisk0 may not be bootable. This may be because the disk's...
32 minutes ago in PowerVM VIOS Submitted

The shipped value for *PUBLIC authority to the root is *RWX. WHY??????

IBM should reassess the default authority posture for the IBM i root directory, specifically where broad *RWX authority is allowed by default. From a modern security and resiliency perspective, this default creates unnecessary exposure and places ...
10 minutes ago in IBM i / Security Submitted

allow operating system users to use LDAP with kerberos

allow to configure operating system users from ldap and use kerberos
about 3 hours ago in PowerVC Submitted

System monitor reset

In Navigator for I - system monitors , can you add an option to reset the threshold as soon as it is triggered. This was in the old inavigator. This means i can have a message sent to me every time the threshold is breached . Currently i get one m...
2 days ago in IBM i / System Management Submitted

Allow else blocks for monitor groups

In some situations it'd be useful to be able to have an else block in a monitor group to perform some handling that shouldn't be monitored itself and should only run when the monitored statements executed without exception. monitor: dosomething();...
2 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG Submitted

Inmutable global variable for imports

Provide a way to declare an exported global variable that is writable by the module that owns it (the one with EXPORT ) but read-only for all modules that consume it via IMPORT . This is stronger than C's extern const (where the owner is also cons...
4 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG Submitted

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