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IBM i Services for defective PTFs installed

Currently the Must Gather Tool has an option for checking for any installed defective PTF's on an LPAR. The output of this is a spoolfile, which does more belong to the time when we still used the term AS/400 Use Case: An IBM i DB2 for i Services ...
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Delivered

Null capable fields

When working with ACS Run SQL script we noticed that null capable fields with the value null are presented as fields containing the character "-". If a field does contain the character "-" you can not tell the difference. Use Case: We had an issue...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 11 Delivered

PowerVC manager should be available on SLES 12 LE on Power Systems

So far the PowerVC Manager component is only running on a Redhat Linux partition on Power Systems. The client components are supporting other Linux distributions and AIX.
almost 8 years ago in PowerVC 3 Delivered

PowerVC to have backward compatibility with VIOS

PowerVC's support policy is 6 moth for ifix, 18 month for fix pack creation, while VIOS is 3 years support policy. VIOS caters for multiple LPARs, and therefore the customers tend to plan longer period to upgrade VIOS. The gap of support period ma...
over 4 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

Disabling eth adapters in AIX

In the current AIX releases (7.x) there is no way to completely disable unused ethernet adapter. This may cause performance degradation when "entstat -d" or "netstat -v" are issued or other tools try to get statistics from this adapter. After syst...
over 4 years ago in AIX 3 Delivered

update WRKSMTPEMM to display full SMTP log with option 8

in case sending SMTP mails fails, hunting down the problem can be a mess if SMTP log is not available
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Networking 4 Delivered

Create XML in RPGLE, BIF like %XML-CREATE()

In the Current world, IBM i is interacting with other systems by using the XML format messages which can be easily understood by different systems and humans. IBM has recently provided XML-INTO and XML-SAX built in functions to read the xml and to...
about 8 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 8 Delivered

Allow IWS to ignore extra/missing fields in the input JSON

Ignoring extra fields is helpful so that the RPG program doesn't have to account for every field that is being sent in the request (i.e. 25+ fields and multiple nested data structure arrays, when only 2 values are actually required). Allowing for ...
about 1 year ago in IBM i / Web Serving 2 Delivered

IBM i ACS Run SQL Scripts Open file sort order settings choice

As part of this request the default view when opening the folder for SQL scripts within ACS was changed from List to Detail requiring the users that prefer List view to select it upon entry each time they access the open file window. Requesting an...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered

RPG datastructure array sort by more than one subfield

For RPG please provide extended sort capability for datastructure arrays. This means sorting of an array over more then one subfield.E.g.: sorta name_of_array(*) (subfieldx: subfieldY: …) using the names of the subfiledsOr sorta name_of_array(*) (...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 9 Delivered

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