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Command to validate indexes

I am filing this RFE in response to the listed PMR at the advice of the IBM staff working on that issue.We recently had a case where a specific record in a table somehow did not update all related indexes using the updated field as a key. This lef...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Not under consideration

Provide indicator for internal / hidden journal entries

For ages the DSPJRN command has had the INCHIDENT parameter to include hidden / internal entries in the output; and recently the DISPLAY_JOURNAL table function has been enhanced to provide similar functionality via the INCLUDE_INTERNAL parameter. ...
7 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Not under consideration

lspv output irritating on unavailable disk

I find the output of the lspv somewhat irritating on removed or unavailable disks. Example: here hdisk1 had been removed physically, and the outout of the disk's state differs:# lspvhdisk0 00fab4e16b7a83d9 rootvg activehdisk1 00fab4e187b7bf6e root...
almost 4 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

ACTIVE_JOB_INFO: Add how long job has been at DSPW

Not ready to leap into QINACTITV. Would rather analyze ACTIVE_JOB_INFO first. Trying to see how long a job has been in DSPW status. Use Case: High Availability: Lock on spool files conflicting with replication software.Security: Are they leaving t...
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 3 Not under consideration

add the Julia language to the IBM i ecosystem

I discovered recently a project of portage of Julia language on Power platform. I would be very interested by a portage specific to the IBM i machines, with a DB2 for i connector optimized for this environment. The presence of this modern and high...
about 2 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 2 Not under consideration

Table Reorganizations

Table Reorganizations option from Iseries Navigator does not periodically update the status of rows being reorganized. It waits until end to provide status. IBM developer went into tasks and processes and found what the count of rows re-org was. W...
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 4 Not under consideration

Add JOB TIME Property to CHGJOB cmd and QWTCHGJB API

Customers are running applications that need to set the time to something other than the System Time (i.e. QTIME system value). Today they have to change the QTIME system value which impacts all things on the system and then remember to change it ...
about 3 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 2 Not under consideration

IBM to allow IBM Download Director to explicitly support NTLMv2 as an authentication method

At our bank, usually we download patches for our iSeries servers from IBM Fix Central website using FTP non-secured. But recently IBM stopped supporting anonymous/unsecure FTP clients and allows only Secure FTP (SFTP). Unfortunately, we are not ab...
about 3 years ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 8 Not under consideration

New RPG assignment operators ++ and --

It would be nice to have the C/Java like assignment operators ++ and -- too. Use Case: var++; instead of var +=1;var--; instead of var -=1;
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 1 Not under consideration

Create shortcut for eval(h) so user doesn't need to type in eval(h)

When performing calculations where we want to round-up, instead of typing Result = (Factor1 - Factor2) * Factor3; we need to type eval(h) Result = (Factor1 - Factor2) * Factor3; It would be nice if that could be simplified to Result(h) = (Factor1 ...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 4 Not under consideration

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