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My ideas: IBM i

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    New Customer Portal for Increased Support Experience

    I would like to propose a new main support portal for clients. In the portal you would be able to have a interface in which you could input your customer ID number or numbers depending on if you manage multiple IBM Power systems across different o...
    5 months ago in IBM i / System Management 2 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...
    5 months ago in IBM i / System Management 0 Submitted

    Environment Branding Options for IBM Navigator for i landing page.

    Being able to tell at a glance the partition or environment you are signing into from the IBM Navigator would be immensely helpful in preventing adverse actions or changes in the wrong environment. Even changing the standard color scheme would be ...
    about 2 months ago in IBM i / Other 0 Submitted

    Ability to specify objects to OMIT/Ignore from the admin domain

    While the administrative domain offers the ability to manually add resources into it, and provides capabilities such as ADDCADMRE that has wildcards and omits, one of the powerful features of the administrative domain are the automation policies: ...
    7 months ago in IBM i / PowerHA 0 Submitted

    improve MERGE by adding the option "WHEN NOT MATCHED BY SOURCE THEN DELETE"

    Today, it is impossible to use the DELETE clause behind WHEN NOT MATCHED.Some DBMS other than DB2 allow this.Would it be possible to add this feature, like in this example ? MERGE target_table USING source_table ON merge_condition WHEN MATCHED THE...
    over 2 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Submitted

    Addition of Journal Code/Entry type description table

    I'd like to suggest adding a table to QSYS2 with the contents of the help text for Journal Codes and Journal Entry Types. If we were to combine this table with DISPLAY_JOURNAL it would provide a greater amount of context to queries against journals.
    11 months ago in IBM i / Other 1 Submitted

    Allow 5733-ICC APIs to be thread safe.

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

    Add 'Jobs Using Connection' details to QSYS2.NETSTAT_INFO

    Adding 'Jobs Using Connection' details to QSYS2.NETSTAT_INFO would provide valuable information when investigating connectivity issues. It would also bring the QSYS2.NETSTAT_INFO service inline with the information provided via the NETSTAT *CNN co...
    6 months ago in IBM i / Core OS 1 Submitted

    Enhance all SAVE and BRMS SAVE commands to be able to put an identical stream to other tapes

    We recently found out that a DUPTAP needs twice as long as the SAVE which is sometimes a regulatory requirement. If the backup takes very long than this might result in 24 hours not being enough to complete the task (if the backup takes more than ...
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 1 Submitted

    Additions for the PRUV tool

    Please add the following to the PRUV tool. Report on command default changes in IBM licensed program libraries. simple example (SELECT * FROM TABLE(QSYS2.OBJECT_STATISTICS('*ALL', '*CMD')) > WHERE APAR_ID = 'CHGDFT';) possible enhancements: in ...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM i / Install and Upgrade and Licensing 0 Submitted

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