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Add the ability to generate an ERD (Entity Relationship Diagram) to IBM i Access Client Solutions (iACS)

Deprecated Navigator used to have the ability to generate database maps and I'd like this ability back in iACS. Just had a new person start this week and trying to get them started and this lacks. Not a good first impression on their exposure to I...
12 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i Submitted

Universal Electromagnetic Infrastructure Transparency, Exposure Assessment, and Public Health Research Network (UEIT-EAPHRN)

IBM–DARPA Research Concept Submission Title: Universal Electromagnetic Infrastructure Transparency, Exposure Assessment, and Public Health Research Network (UEIT-EAPHRN) Classification: Research & Development Concept (Non-Operational) Submitti...
about 13 hours ago in Power Ecosystem Software / Health Care Submitted

Enhancement Request for Root CA Renew Procedure

we would appreciate it if you could advise if IBM has plans to release a new technote covering the step-by-step root CA renewal procedure for reference. Or from DCM, add some technote for renewing root CA. like not allowing the same root CA occurr...
1 day ago in IBM i / Security Submitted

Global option to prevent cron from sending mail to users

If a command in someones crontab generates output to stdin or stderr and is not redirected a mail is geneareted to the user who ownes the crontab. While this might have been a good idea 30 years ago, it can cause serious troube in modern environme...
25 days ago in AIX Submitted

make it possible to use regular expressions in HMC systems-view-panel search

the HMC systems-view search is very helpful when working with a bigger number of sytems/LPARs/VIOS connected/managed to HMC.with the search you can reduce the view to the sytems/LPARs/VIOs you are planning to work with.this helps to speed up work ...
about 1 month ago in Hardware Management Console Submitted

Authority Collection data should include successful checks, even when the user is the OWNER of the object

I ran into a strange behavior when using authority collection. Scott Forstie was able to confirm that it's currently working "as coded". However, I think it should be changed. When a user profile successfully accesses an object, and that user prof...
13 days ago in IBM i / Security Submitted

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...
6 months ago in IBM i / PTF and Service Under review

Please put SJ08079 on the next resave of IBM i 7.6.

https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7066410 I'd rather not see these false flag messages upon first upgrading to IBM i 7.6 so they need to incorporate SJ08079 into the next resave of IBM i 7.6. It's not on any cume or group so I'm afraid if I d...
2 days ago in IBM i / Core OS Submitted

IBM removed certain commands, MRGFORMD being one of them. IBM failed to consider the ramifications of this on CHKPRDOPT.

CHKPRDOPT PRDID(*OPSYS) *CMD MRGFORMD in QSYS38 not found for product 5770SS1 option 0006 release V7R6M0. Exit program processing found error in product. Product 5770SS1 release V7R6M0 option 0006 load 5050 not correctly installed. IBM removed cer...
2 days ago in IBM i / Core OS Submitted

Enhance BOOLEAN support in SQL pre-compiler for ILE-RPG

Since the addition of the BOOLEAN data type in DB2 for i existing RPG programs might run into problems. The BOOLEAN support of the SQL pre-compiler is documented here. Now if there is an existing table with a column "column1" of type CHAR(1) it wa...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Db2 for i Future consideration

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