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IBM i Access Family

Subsystem information in plan cache

When analyzing the cache plan, the subsystem information for accessing the job that generated the plan is not visible. The client's IP address would also be important. This would allow filtering the information by subsystem or IP address.
3 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i Future consideration

Generate qualified data structures for *LOB sql data types

When generating data structures for BLOB & CLOB SQL data types, use a qualified data structure instead of using the variable name with _LEN and _DATA appended. For example, Currently, for this field definition, DCL-S BLOBFIELD SQLTYPE(CLOB:160...
4 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i Future consideration

Remove permissions from catalog files

Here is a reproducible example Signon on QSECOFR or a profil with *secadm create a table CREATE TABLE LIB.CLIENTBQ ( NUMERO DEC ( 5) NOT NULL WITH DEFAULT, NOM CHAR ( 20) NOT NULL WITH DEFAULT, IBAN CHAR ( 14) NOT NULL WITH DEFAULT) remove public ...
8 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i Future consideration
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HMC Performance Dashboard shows different calculated graphs depending if the LPAR is in Shared-Pool and Dedicated Mode

At the moment the HMC Performance Dashboard is using a different calculation method - depending on the LPAR using Shared-Pool or Dedicated-Donating Mode - to display the CPU utilization graph without any hint of these differences. Both graphs are ...
over 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console Future consideration

Urgent support for Power HA System Mirror for IBM i of the new IBM Spectrum Virtualize function Policy-based HA (the new Hyperswap function)

With the last announcements of IBM storage, the IBM Spectrum Virtualize Software is enhanced with the new functions based on Policy-based HA (the new Hyperswap function). The PowerHA system mirror for i, today doesn't support this new function and...
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / PowerHA Future consideration

Query a specific JVM via QSYS2.JVM_INFO

To automate the monitoring of JVMs, one approach is to utilize QSYS2.JVM_INFO like this: SELECT * from TABLE(QSYS2.JVM_INFO(WAIT_TIME => 1)) WHERE JOB_NAME = '791185/JOBUSER/JOBNAME' Unfortunately, to get the values of a single JVM, this call m...
4 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i Future consideration

New *EMPTY constant

Follow-up on https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/IBMI-I-4107. Instead of using *blank / *blanks, when one wants to return an empty string from a function, instead of writing: return ''; One could write: return *empty;
6 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG Future consideration

Extend Eval-Corr to ignore empty or null subfields in source Ds

The eval-corr opcode is extremely convenient for all functions that require sharing a template type definition and ensures that adding new fields to the base template is easily extended to the eval-corr target DSs by simply recompiling the affecte...
4 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG Future consideration

Setting SVC Site attribute for VMs dependant on PowerVC Host Site

We are using a SVC stretched cluster between two datacenters with one storage pool per datacenter in the SVC backend as our main storage in PowerVC. Dependant of the datacenter location of a VM we assign storage via "Storage Template" from the sam...
9 months ago in PowerVC Future consideration

Add issuer certificate serial number in qsys2.certificate_info and QycuRetrieveCertificateInfo API

In the DCM GUI, the hierarchy view provides the certification chain: the authority (one or more) + the client/server certificate. However, there is no solution for finding this link using code: The qsys2.certificate_info SQL service and the QycuRe...
7 months ago in IBM i / Security Future consideration

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