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IBM Advanced Job Scheduler

Add *SYNC option or :1. Create a command called SYNCJOBJS2. Prompts for the *RMTLOCNAME3. Compares all AJS entries between source and target systems.4. Writes the difference to a file by *LOC and *REMOTE (System names could be the same in NETA)5. ...
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 2 Not under consideration

Large number of joblogs produced

We are using Infor XA When jobs run, instead of producing one joblog, they are producing many joblogs of approx. 100 pages. We have examples where hundreds of joblogs are produced. If there is an issue and Infor want the joblog, it is not practica...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 1 Not under consideration

AS/400 Advanced Job Scheduler functionality-57xxJS1

I have two requests for enhancing the Advanced Job Scheduler on As/400. They are closely related together.Initial issue has been found during PMR 46407,668,6681. Update remote system definition in AJD (file: QUSRIJS/QAIJSRMT) allow use FQDN. Curre...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 6 Not under consideration

Advanced Job Scheduler - Report by User

IBM Advanced Job Scheduler DSPJOBJS Field Options. New Feature: Adding the "User field" from the submission information section in an entry. Having an option to determine if a specific user profile is being used in an existing job scheduler entry....
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 2 Not under consideration

ENDJOB OPTION(*IMMED) considered harmful

ENDJOB OPTION(*IMMED) has outlived it's usefulness. Modern code contains more subtle locking then in days past & often has exit handlers to perform cleanup. This is true of both client & IBM code (I'm looking at you, SQE). End *IMMED ends ...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 5 Not under consideration

increase user space size

The maximum size of an user space object is 16, 776, 704 bytes. This is no longer sufficient. If a library contains more than about 25.000 objects I can not dump all object information (QUSROBJD using OBJD0300) into the user space. Please increase...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 5 Not under consideration

API qzipzip, stores always the full path. When zip file is for external use then fullpath is not desirable (security)this

When using the QZipZip API the full path is stored in the zip file. When these zip files are to be used by and external party the he must drill down to find his zipped files. Also this expose the internal file structure.So having an option to incl...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 2 Future consideration

Improve cancel handler to avoid hang situations when ending jobs that behaves badly.

We've had a lot of hang situations when doing ENDSBS *ALL over the year which always results in us having to restart the LPAR using the HMC. The cause have in almost all cases been found to be an application program not responding to the cancel ha...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 3 Not under consideration

IBM Commands and DS4

the IBM have a lot of commands.The screen output of the the commands are in DS3 24*80.It would be really great when the DSPF of commands would be changed to output the commands in DS4 when it's available. Use Case: See more directly.
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 1 Not under consideration

PTP - Precision TIME Protocol

A new request from a financial market require to us the PTP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precision_Time_Protocol Could you add it on IBM I? Use Case: The financial market require to us for the new release this standard.
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 4 Not under consideration

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