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My votes: IBM i

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New Nav for i - Group System endpoints.

It would be nice to have the ability to group systems in New Nav. I have 130+ systems mixed into prod, dev, and qa. Would be nice to separate them on the Dashboard page. I am using one central location to manage all of my endpoints which is great!...
4 months ago in IBM i / System Management 1 Future consideration

New IBM i Service for SMTP

I would like an IBM i Service to view and manage the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) on IBM i. Ideally this service would not only allow a user to view and or modify the configuration of SMTP but also to view the Email History stored within t...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Networking 8 Not under consideration

Add CPYJOBSCDE Command

we have work and add job scheduled entries but, can we also have a copy job scheduled entry? Sometimes you need to add a job scheduled entry and just change a script that is going to run. For example, First job scheduled entry SBMJOB CMD(QSYS/RUNS...
11 months ago in IBM i / Core OS 4 Future consideration

Add native 2FA and/or MFA for 5250 and other interfaces to data

Data security insurance and other requirements are requesting Two Factor Authentication or Multi Factor Authentication access to data.
11 months ago in IBM i / Security 2 Future consideration

OAuth support for gmail email from IBMi

I've put this request in because Tech Support had nothing and recommended this as the course of action at this time. As of September 30, 2024, gmail is no longer allowing POP and SMTP for email. Anyone using gmail to send emails from the IBMi will...
3 months ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 0 Submitted

Add %hival() and %loval() BIFs

The *HIVAL and *LOVAL features in RPG are extremly usefull. But especially when comparing, the compiler assumes, that *HIVAL/*LOVAL are according to the compared field - but often you have to compare a value to the *HIVAL/*LOVAL of another field -...
9 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 1 Future consideration

Suppressing Hardware Problem messages

We normally get the messages related to any hardware problem on the IBM i O.S which is good if it is on-prem server. But considering a user who has cloud based subscription for an LPAR in the IBM Cloud then these kind of messages doesn't makes any...
27 days ago in IBM i / Hardware 1 Under review

IBM i Access Client Solutions - System Drop Down - List and Sort by System Description

The Host Names for the systems that I have configured are all sporadic and I'd like to keep all the systems for each client listed/grouped together. Using the Group Name feature helps... a little... but is a little cumbersome. It would be nice if ...
3 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

Full qualified job name in DSPJOB and WRKJOB

The fully qualified job identifier : 123456/USER/JOBNAME is used many several places for interaction with a job However this information is available in the form: Job: JOBNAME User: USER Number: 123456 in both DSPJOB and WRKJOB. It would appreciat...
almost 3 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 5 Future consideration

CGI PDI Enable History Performance Reports PDF

Inavigator PDI Performance Data Investigator.Create Report of History Performance data , and preferably to be able to schedule them. Use Case: PM400 is End Of Support by IBM , There is an high demand from our IBM i customers to have similar monthl...
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / Performance Tools 7 Future consideration

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