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Support a modern hashing algorithm like bcrypt as a password level

The currently available algorithms for i are a SHA1 hash (salted with username and mutually agreed upon IVs) and a custom DES implementation that does similar. The problem is both of these are broken algorithms - SHA1 has been broken in this decad...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / Security 4 Delivered

update WRKSMTPEMM to display full SMTP log with option 8

in case sending SMTP mails fails, hunting down the problem can be a mess if SMTP log is not available
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Networking 4 Delivered

IBM i ACS Run SQL Scripts Open file sort order settings choice

As part of this request the default view when opening the folder for SQL scripts within ACS was changed from List to Detail requiring the users that prefer List view to select it upon entry each time they access the open file window. Requesting an...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered

NULL management by IWS

Currently IWS has no capability regards to null values when a SOAP or REST service is published. When a field in a request is null, the RPG ile program or procedure will receive: For char fields -> all blanks For varchar fields -> a lenght o...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Web Serving 2 Delivered

Add APAR id to Object_Statistics

When performing an upgrade one may want to find all commands which have had their defaults changed via CHGCMDDFT.If you do the DSPOBJD with *SERVICE details you can look at the APAR ID (ODAPAR). It get CHGDFT for any commands that have had CHGCMDD...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 4 Delivered

Single Pane for QSYSOPR messages in New Navigator

The New Nav that was released in the fall of 2021 provides a single pane of glass for each of our managed partitions and seems quite promising. What would make this new navigator more promising and will allow us to abandon older versions is being ...
almost 3 years ago in IBM i / System Management 4 Delivered

Create an IBM i Service for command DSPSAVF

Create a new IBM i Service to make it possible to get information of the content in a Save File. Use Case: Save Files are great to use when delivering objects from on server to another. To be able automate a deployment process we need to know what...
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 8 Delivered

Avoiding HMC User HSCROOT for PowerVC

Create a user at HMC with least privileges to connect PowerVC to HMC
over 4 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

Overlay exported procedures with a little icon to distinguish them from internal procedures

Please add an overlay to exported procedures in the "Outline" view. Distinguishing between exported from imported procedures would be much easier, if there were different icons for both types. Maybe you could also add an overlay to the local proce...
about 4 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 8 Delivered

enhance QSYS2.MANAGE_AUDIT_JOURNAL_DATA_MART

add filter to the QSYS2.MANAGE_AUDIT_JOURNAL_DATA_MART. would like to be able to filter what records are added to the data_mart for instance in AF entries, filter on object, library or usrprfsimilar for ZC/ZR entries
7 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Delivered

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