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Remove looping /QopenSys link

The symbolic link /QopenSys/QopenSys points to itself and should be elimiated, because a process reading through the directory will eventually find himself being pointed to /QOpenSys over and over again. Use Case: WINDIRSTAT reading throught the IFS.
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 3 Delivered

DLYJOB add handling for controlled end request

When a controlled job end is requested, such as after an ENDJOB *CNTRLD or ENDSBS *CNTRLD, it would be nice if DLYJOB could be interrupted to permit graceful shutdown of a process. Use Case: It would be nice to add some option to DLYJOB where a co...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 4 Delivered

provide a command or an API to change certificate store password

Properly managing SSL/TLS certificates become more and more important. Specifically all the certificates and certificates authorities which are stored in the *SYSTEM certificate store.This certificate store is protected by a password, that can be ...
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / Security 3 Delivered

Add USRDFNDTA to OUTPUT_QUEUE_ENTRIES

In our ERP different informations are stored within the USRDFNDTA each spooled file. Like Mailaccount, Address and so on.Now i want to add some new feutures and at that point i would need the field USRDFNDTA in the SQL UDTF OUTPUT_QUEUE_ENTRIES. U...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Delivered

Include messages in BRMS that are triggering errors

Various warnings or errors cause BRMS to issue messages indicating a save is incomplete. But the warning or error messages themselves are not in the BRMS log, which means you have to scour the joblog to find the issues. I'd like to have the warnin...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 4 Delivered

Add TGTRLS on RUNSQLSTM OUTPUT(*LIST) Report

When creating a UDF or UDTF (SQL Function) using the RUNSQLSTM CL command, the resulting Output "Compiler Listing" does NOT including the TGTRLS (Target release) specified on the RUNSQLSTM command. The "current" VxRyMz does appear in the title of ...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Delivered

Monitor for Hardware Key expiration

We are trying to extract the firmware status to allow tracking of expired keys. There are some commands which will extract the key information (DSPFMWSTS) but no associated API's that we can find. We looked at monitoring for the messages when the ...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 6 Delivered

PowerSC TNCPM should allow installation of ifixes without NIM

PowerSC TNCPM is widely used by customers to deploy security patches on AIX LPARs. Currently, the security ifixes are installed through NIM server. Some customers do not use NIM because NIM has a complex port requirement as described in the follow...
over 1 year ago in PowerSC 5 Delivered

DISPLAY_JOURNAL UDTF enhancement request

DISPLAY_JOURNAL UDTF currently accepts library and object as parameters and also if object name is not specified, it defaults to "ALL" for the library. We would like to request for an enhancement where this UDTF can accept a list of objects as par...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Delivered

commit & rollback in Toolbox ribbon in Run SQL script

It would be great if Run Sql Script could have two new buttons - "commit" and "rollback" in Toolbox ribbon. if these two could be available only when applicable -> if isolation level in opened JDBC connection = '*NONE' THEN "greyed out" else "a...
about 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 6 Delivered

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