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RPO History and Thresholds

With asynchronous replication sessions in PowerHA, recovery point objective (RPO) type information is currently displayed in fields like data exposure and freeze time. However, this information is not retained for historical purposes and the regul...
19 days ago in IBM i / PowerHA 0 Submitted

Add OPEN *ALL to RPG to open all files not already open.

Files defined as USROPN or already closed must be opened manually and individually and code must make sure each file is not already open. OPEN *ALL would be the complement to CLOSE *ALL.
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 0 Submitted

Oauth authentification for email

Hello, In September 2025, Microsoft will deprecate SMTP with login/password and will only allow SMTP with OAuth. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/clients-and-mobile-in-exchange-online/deprecation-of-basic-authentication-exchange-online I...
23 days ago in IBM i / Networking 0 Submitted

xml-sax -- invalid characters converted to substitution character

Now and then I experience that XML-SAX in RPG throws an exception RNX0351 - The XML parser detected error code 6. This is caused by the situation that an UTF-8 character can not be converted to an EBCDIC character. It would be nice if it was possi...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 0 Submitted

USEADPAUT as a compilerparameter

According to Preventing new programs from using adopted authority - IBM Documentation systemvalue steers how new programs get USEADPAUT attribute. If a developer are permitted to set *YES, all new programs will get that attribute and developer mus...
24 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 2 Submitted

Enhance Security of QUSEADPAUT system value and USEADPAUT in general

This is similar in intent to https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/IBMI-I-4498 In support of 'deny by default' security principle, arrangements should be made to only generate programs and service programs with USEADPAUT(*YES), when A) explicitly requested ...
16 days ago in IBM i / Security 0 Submitted

Native PowerHA support for IBM FlashSystems (SVC) three-site configurations

Currently, PowerHA supports three-site configurations with IBM DS8000 storage through HyperSwap with Global Mirror technologies, and with Geographic Mirroring using multi-target Geographic Mirroring. IBM FlashSystems introduced three-site support ...
16 days ago in IBM i / PowerHA 1 Submitted

Websphere Liberty Express Start/Stop Multiple instances at one

Ability to start/stop Websphere Liberty Express instances at the same time. We have like 15 instances and currently doing sequential start/stop.
9 days ago in IBM i / Application Development / System Management 0 Submitted

COBOL SQL Precompiler able to use Host Variables using LIKE and SQL commands allowed in Copybooks

Hi Jeff, Development reviewed the information you sent in and provided the following feedback: Thanks for providing examples to illustrate your questions. Unfortunately, both of the examples provided are not supported by the SQL COBOL precompiler....
9 days ago in IBM i / Languages - Other 0 Submitted

Enable Headless Execution for Interactive Green Screen Commands on IBM i

Idea Summary : Introduce a capability to run interactive green screen commands (like WRKSBMJOB, WRKUSRJOB, WRKACTJOB, etc.) in headless mode, allowing scripts and automation tools to execute and retrieve results without requiring a 5250 terminal s...
10 days ago in IBM i / Core OS 1 Submitted

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