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Add FSFC Full System Flashcopy option for holding Advanced Job Scheduler jobs

There is a parameter for holding regular scheduled jobs in the default IBM i job scheduler, but there is not one for the (newly free of charge) Advanced Job Scheduler. We would like one.
6 months ago in IBM i / Other 0 Submitted

Adoption of GOLANG (GO Compiler) by Google in the ibmi-ioss supported within PASE

Nodejs Open source applications are beginning to leverage the GO compiler to increase performance. These tend to be things like Angular, typescript etc.
6 months ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 0 Submitted

When delete user profile(DLTUSRPRF), disregard user with IASP which cause failure.

Power HA admin domain has issue with user that has job description with initial asp set, while trying to delete user profile. Receive message below on source: CPIBB12 Resource MFERNAN7 is inconsist> CPFBB2E Job submission failed for cluste> ...
6 months ago in IBM i / PowerHA 0 Submitted

Add support for golang on power i

We run node servers built from typescript projects on power i. Typescript has recently announced they will be porting over their transpiler to golang https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/typescript-native-port/ Angular has already switched to...
6 months ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 0 Submitted

5733-ICC API to delete a no longer needed directory

There are cloud APIs to copy to, copy from cloud as well as one to remove a file from cloud. However if you file has a directory structure there is no way to remove any of those directories.
6 months ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 2 Submitted

Allow 5733-ICC APIs to be thread safe.

Any one who wanted to use the Cloud APIs in a threaded environment.
6 months ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 0 Submitted

Google Pub/Sub support on IBM i OS

We have tried to develop a solution to interact with Google Pub/Sub directly on the IBMi and have been unable to due to restrictions related to the processor on the IBMi. This has included attempts to run a Python coded solution on the IBMi direct...
6 months ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 4 Submitted

Windows 11 Pro ARM support with 64bit ODBC drivers so PowerBI Desktop and Excel can pull data from IBM i Db2. For all Mac M(x) ARM systems. Support for modern tooling

Power BI does not run on Mac Arm, but does in Parallels with Windows ARM. IBM 32bit drivers will install in Windows ARM, but 64bit will not. All modern tooling is requiring 64bit support. This kills MAC as a dev platform for IBM I with many modern...
7 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Submitted

within the new iNavigator - Active Jobs - Filter Job name that contains more than one. I believe this was possible on the Heritage iNav

within the new iNavigator - Active Jobs - Filter Job name that contains more than one. As an example, Job name contains QBAT, QINT I believe this was possible on the Heritage iNavigator
7 months ago in IBM i / System Management 0 Submitted

I'm using the audit data mart in web Navigator, please add an option to schedule the "refresh" job when the journal receiver gets changed.

currently we can have an advanced job scheduler job added to run at a specific time. This is great but allows for the possibility of missing journal receiver entries. I would like to add the option to run the audit journal data mart process when t...
8 months ago in IBM i / System Management 0 Submitted