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Upgrade OpenSSH on HMC to a version which will pass scanning services.

Security issue. Scanning services flag Env:HMC v11 r1 m1111 because of the following: Qualys id (QID): 38999 Title: OpenSSH ssh Function Vulnerability (CVE-2025-61984) Solution: Customers are advised to upgrade to OpenSSH 10.1p1 (https://www.opens...
17 days ago in Hardware Management Console Submitted

Formalize and enhance the PARTITION_STATISTICS table function

The Table function QSYS2.PARTITION_STATISTICS effectively produces a member list for a given file name. This is a vast improvement over calling QUSLMBR or using the currently exposed SQL Views which can be slow. Please harden up the parameters (do...
19 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i Future consideration

not %passed parameters can be not %passed for successive procedures

When we call a procedure that allow optionnal parameters, then to call successive procedures that again allow optionnal parameters, we need to check each one, then we can either call the next procedure with default value, or make a call for each c...
19 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG Submitted

Enhancement for SELF: exclusion list

In production environments, running SELF with *ERROR monitoring enabled is highly valuable for identifying potential issues in SQL executed on production LPARs. However, a challenge arises when frequently occurring and well‑understood SQL errors—s...
19 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i Future consideration

Improve the DB2 GENERATE_UUID function

For now, the function can only generate UUIDs according to version 4 of RFC 4122. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.6.0?topic=functions-generate-uuid We would like to be able to call the function and specify that it should generate a version 7 UUID,...
19 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i Future consideration

Enhance %CONCAT to support an integer for number of blanks

The %CONCAT built-in function is helpful to turn a list of values into a CSV, blank or other delimited list. The *BLANK and *NONE optional 1st argument/parameter is helpful. This request is to add an option to that first parameter of the number of...
19 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG Not under consideration

ACS Run SQL Scripts - Add capability to customize colors

I cannot see the light green that is used for comments. It would be nice to have the capability to specify the color for the various parts in the editor.
21 days ago in IBM i / Application Development Submitted

Automatically truncate Integrated WebService input payload if it is more than the defined length in the Rest service contract.

we have observed that the IWS REST service fails when an input payload parameter exceeds the defined length. Is there a way to configure IWS to automatically truncate the input if it exceeds the specified length? The request is to truncate the par...
22 days ago in IBM i / Application Development Submitted

“Global Debt Intelligence & Autonomous Financial Optimization Network (G-DIAFON)

“Global Debt Intelligence & Autonomous Financial Optimization Network (G-DIAFON)” 💡 Core Idea (Realistic Version) A distributed AI system that: Tracks public debt structures across nations in real timeDetects inefficiencies, fraud, redundant s...
23 days ago in Power Ecosystem Software / Government (includes education) Submitted

Avoid HTTP server down time for certificate renewal

With the looming prospect of certificate renewal every 47 days after 15 March 2029 in mind, it will become a burden if this requires an HTTP to be restarted. This is about adding functionality to "refresh" a certificate when it is being renewed, t...
24 days ago in IBM i / Core OS Submitted

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