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mksysb backup restore with Tape Device

SAS and FC attached tape do not support boot because it needs atape device driver and atape device driver does not support boot.SCSI attached tape does support boot because SCSI attached tape support AIX native tape device driver , so it is the on...
almost 5 years ago in AIX 4 Not under consideration

Allow RUNSQLSTM to support a "continuation character" for very long SQL statements

When coding SQL statements for creating tables or indexes or whatever, we often have a problem formatting very long SQL statements because there is not "continuation line" character supported by the statement processor. The COMMENT ON statement ca...
about 1 year ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Not under consideration

Add MSGF to program references

We commonly use a change management system to do impact analysis on IBM i objects in our applications. The DSPPGMREF in correctly returns *FILE for a *MSGF reference in CLP or CLLE. The command will be correct to not return anything, but it is imp...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 1 Not under consideration

directly enter SQL-Arrays as Input Arguments for Stored Procedures

Our reporting systems calls Stored Procedues on a DB2/400 system via ODBC/JDBC. The SP receives for example one productID and then it collects the desired informations from our DB2400-tables and return it to the reporting system via a result set. ...
about 2 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Not under consideration

Allow IFS directory and content *IGNORE in QAUDJRN

When QAUDLVL is set to *CREATE *DELETE the IFS can generate millions of entries which are for temp objects created in directories (ZendServer issue). The problem is there is no way to turn off the capture of the Create and delete only to set the a...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Security 2 Not under consideration

Node ODBC use user's library list that is running the process

When using the odbc connector in a Nodejs application I want the connector to use the library list of the user that is running the application. Currently I have to manually add a list of libraries to the connection string. Use Case: It is not idea...
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 1 Not under consideration

Microsoft component ADFS implementation on IBM i for SSO

Good morning,I don't think it is necessary to further list the benefits of Single SignOn authentication. my company would like to switch to Modern Authentication that's why we would like to be able to integrate IBM i with Microsoft ADFS for office...
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / Security 2 Not under consideration

Stop denial of service attack caused by using 3 part naming in a H/A environment

When I set up DB2 alias as per https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/rdb-relational-database-setting-brms-high-availability-environmentand then use 3 part naming in STATIC sql it initializes a denial of service attack and makes the system unusable. IB...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Not under consideration

Please provide for date and signed fields in CL programs

There is a need to be able to work with compatible fields in CL, RPG and display files. I use date fields on the display to prompt for date parameters to run jobs in batch or even interactive jobs. This is true for jobs run from a IBMi command too...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Languages - CL (Control Language) 2 Not under consideration

IBM Rational Developer for i, lpex convert H,F,D,P spec to Free-Form

With the V7R2 version RPGLE is possibie to use free formats for Control, File, Definition, and Procedure statements.While LPEX editor allows conversion of specific C, does not allow free conversion formats for other specifications.It would be very...
about 8 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Not under consideration