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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...
6 days ago in IBM i / Core OS 2 Submitted

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...
4 days ago in IBM i / Core OS 0 Submitted

Enhance the File Expiration Date on SAV commands

Right now, you have two options with the File Expiration Date on save commands: put *PERM for permanent or specify a specific date. Ideally, you would want to say "30 days from now" but there's no way to do that without putting the command in a pr...
25 days ago in IBM i / Core OS 0 Submitted

Tracking the number of message KEYS used by an active program

This is about MESSAGE KEYS. There are a limited number of message KEYS that a job can use. When that limit is reached, the job stops functioning and must be restarted. This job is very important to our business and processes MQ transactions and we...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Core OS 0 Submitted

CPE3025 should tell what exactly is missing.

The message CPE3025 occurs when a file or folder in the IFS cannot be found. But you have to guess which one, as CPE3025 doesn't tell. Edit: it is obviously me sending the message; sorry. But nevertheless, a common data structure for CPExxxx-messa...
2 months ago in IBM i / Core OS 0 Submitted

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