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Lack of BRMS auditing

BRMS does not log changes made to backup control groups, policies, and other configurable options into a specific table or journal. Having BRMS log changes to backup control groups, policies, and other configurable options into a dedicated table o...
2 months ago in IBM i / BRMS 1 Future consideration

Add an additional special authority *NONSYS

With the introduction of a SPCAUT *NONSYS which which should include *ALLOBJ WITHOUT operating system libraries the system administrator should be able to easily seperate e.g. developers from system administrators. This option would avoid accident...
2 months ago in IBM i / Security 1 Submitted

Add a preserve/overlay operation extender to the EVAL opcode.

When migrating the MOVE and MOVEL opcodes to free format, simple assignments are often the right choice. But in some cases, the MOVEL operation is effectively an integrated/implied substring operation. MOVEL 'ABC' CHAR20 Only replaces the first 3 ...
2 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 2 Submitted

Add additional metrics to i Navigator System Monitors.

Currently there is a list of metrics to choose from to setup a System Monitor. When a monitor threshold is set and exceeded a command can be run. The idea is to add additional metrics to System Monitors list to choose from like Object Lock content...
2 months ago in IBM i / Performance Tools 0 Submitted

New command CPYMSGD

The command CPYMSGD shold copy a message description with all attributes such as message data fields, formatting information (&N, &P, &B) and reply attributes.
2 months ago in IBM i / Application Development 0 Submitted

Allow concurrent restores from a single save file

The suggestion is to be able to restore content from a single SAVF to two (or more) places at one. The use case is environment refresh. We refresh two environments at the same time and because time is limited and the restore process is the longest...
2 months ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 0 Submitted

Native DCM support for ACME protocol (Automatic Certificate Management Environment)

Certificate lifespan is drastically shortening. and certificates are fundamental in todays security. Lifespan will be 47 days in 2029. IBM i needs a robust way to automate the renewal of publicly signed certificates.
2 months ago in IBM i / Security 2 Under review

New QSYS2 Table function : QSYS2.WRITER_INFO

Hello, I wanted to retrieve the list of all the writers present on my client's machine.I tried with the SQL table : QSYS2.OBJECT_STATISTICS.SELECT * FROM TABLE (QSYS2.OBJECT_STATISTICS('*ALL ','*DEVD')) WHERE OBJATTRIBUTE in ('PRTLAN','PRTVRT','PR...
2 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Submitted

FETCH LAST n ROWS ONLY Support in SQL for IBM i

FETCH LAST n ROWS ONLY Support in SQL for IBM i Summary Currently, DB2 for i allows developers to fetch the first n rows of a result set using the FETCH FIRST n ROWS ONLY clause. However, there is no direct equivalent syntax to fetch the last n ro...
2 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Future consideration

Add issuer certificate serial number in qsys2.certificate_info and QycuRetrieveCertificateInfo API

In the DCM GUI, the hierarchy view provides the certification chain: the authority (one or more) + the client/server certificate. However, there is no solution for finding this link using code: The qsys2.certificate_info SQL service and the QycuRe...
2 months ago in IBM i / Security 0 Submitted

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