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My ideas: IBM i

Allow MONMSG RMV(*YES)

When running CL programs, the joblog contains a lot of messages that are not relevant to the process. For example consider this code snippet below which leaves message cpf9801 in the joblog. On the other hand, `monmsg cpf9801 exec(do) RMV(*YES)` w...
3 months ago in IBM i / Application Development Submitted

ICC product should provide information to BRMS indicating tape transfer has failed

Hello, As per case TS019399743: "...I was working with development teams and sincerely apologize for delayed response. BRMS development team has checked and confirmed that ICC product do not provide information to BRMS indicating tape transfer has...
6 months ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud Submitted

Add the Prestart Job Reuse count to the job data in Collection Services

QSYS2.Active_Job_Info returns the prestart job reuse count. However, to review this you must use DETAILED_INFO => 'ALL' and you can only get a real-time snapshot. I would like this metric added to the Collection Services job data so this can be...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Performance Tools Submitted

Add a date created field or data added field to the WRKIMGCLG ouput

When looking at the content of a IMGCLG you cannot see any reference to the date the IMGCLGE was added or what the content is. To review the content you have to Load the IMGCLG to a device and then work through each entry to identify what the cont...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Save and Restore Submitted

Creating User Profiles with SSH-Only Access on IBM i

When designing and creating a user profile on a system like IBM i, it's possible to define with considerable precision which resources and environments will be available to that user. A common need in enterprise environments is to allow access onl...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Security Submitted

Add downloaded to IMGCLG to PTF status when using QPZRTVFX

When retrieving PTF status it does not say if the PTF has been downloaded to an IMGCLG even though the SNDPTFORD is used to order and download the PTF. When comparing a lits of PTF's that are required for CVE coverage you cannot see if the PTF has...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / PTF and Service Submitted

Provide an API to extract the DSPPGMREF information

There currently is no API to get the output of DSPPFMREF which makes extracting and development of tools cumbersome. There's *OUTFILE support but this is not flexible enough as it requires an intermediate step that complicates things like building...
6 months ago in IBM i / Application Development Submitted

Add user to SEP parameter so we can target another users job with that SEP

With the recent release of SEP support for Merlin and VS Code, it seems that they made it just use the user you connected to the IBM i with. In my product, we rarely (dare I say never) want to set an SEP on our current user. We need to 'catch' the...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Application Development Submitted

Add the autostart option to all IBM i Debug Servers and Debug Service

Currently in Navigator for i the TCP/IP server System Debugger consist of 3 instances the System Debugger, IDE Debugger Server and Debug Service. Unfortunately the Debug server is not available in the Navigator for i TCP/IP Configuration Propertie...
5 months ago in IBM i / Application Development Submitted

New QCALENDAR API.

The new QCALENDAR API can be called when the user presses F4 on a date-type field and allows them to select a date.
3 months ago in IBM i / Application Development Submitted

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