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Add ability to open SQL scripts from github

Hello, We store a lot of our custom SQL scripts in Github nowadays, we would find it useful to have ability to open scripts from Github repository. Run SQL Scripts > File > Open > PC File / IFS Stream File / Source Physical File + Github ...
6 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family Not under consideration

Add option to change the command that uses the Access Client Solutions change password plugin(pwchange)

Add option to change (or change) the command that uses the Access Client Solutions change password plugin(pwchange) from CHGUSRPRF to CHGPWD or make it check the values so it meets the QPWDLVL and other systems values requirements for the password...
6 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family Not under consideration

RCVJRNE support journal entries QJORDJE5 Record Format (*TYPE5)

System monitoring for many audit journal type to got relate IP information to determinate security issue
6 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i Not under consideration

Allow ability to invoke Functions and Stored Procedures using Specific name in addition to Long Name.

Currently Tables, Index and Views have the ability to invoke using either the long name or the short 10 character name. It will benefit for adopting both short and long names and stay consistent with Tables, Indexes and Views.
6 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i Not under consideration

Allow Multi-factor authentication option to enable SMS/Email authentication methods in IBM i 7.6

Implementing email or SMS as additional MFA options on IBM i could enhance user convenience and adoption by providing familiar and easily accessible authentication methods. It would eliminate the need for every user to rely on authenticator apps, ...
7 months ago in IBM i / Security Not under consideration

add lun to asp, disk formatting too long

Today with Flash disk and capacity up to 30TB the function add lun is too long. When we rebuild lpar from scratch we need many days to do it, moreover, if there are about a hundred lpar to be done. Is there a possibility to improve this feature Th...
7 months ago in IBM i / Storage Not under consideration

Add a "Last Active" Timestamp or number of elapsed seconds since the last activity for a Job to WRKACTJOB and QUSRJOBI API

While we know that interactive jobs have an inactivity timer on them, the Work Active Jobs (WRKACTJOB) and the corresponding API do not provide us with information on how long a user hasn't had an interaction with the 5250 session or a batch job h...
7 months ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging Not under consideration

Add an additional special authority *NONSYS

With the introduction of a SPCAUT *NONSYS which which should include *ALLOBJ WITHOUT operating system libraries the system administrator should be able to easily seperate e.g. developers from system administrators. This option would avoid accident...
7 months ago in IBM i / Security Not under consideration

Add a preserve/overlay operation extender to the EVAL opcode.

When migrating the MOVE and MOVEL opcodes to free format, simple assignments are often the right choice. But in some cases, the MOVEL operation is effectively an integrated/implied substring operation. MOVEL 'ABC' CHAR20 Only replaces the first 3 ...
7 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG Not under consideration

Frame P8 support on HMC V11

Many customers still have P8 frames in service because it's the latest version supporting AIX 5.3. Lot of infrastructures have P8 and P10 frames connected to the same HMC. The refusal to support P8 frames requires segmenting the management of the...
8 months ago in Hardware Management Console Not under consideration

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