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Flexible sender email address

Have the option to have a flexible sender email address a CL command with which I can send email. Use Case: Customers require us to have more flexibility when sending email from IBM i. In not all cases the job with which we send email can be run u...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Networking 12 Delivered

QSH and QCMD shell directly in ACS

Provide ssh : sshfs, sftp, qsh and qcmd shell directly in ACS for fast administrative access. Use Case: Avoid to configure and work throuth a 5250 terminal and menu session first. Improve to access support of SSH setup. Efficent work from any java...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 6 Delivered

DB2 for i Service to retrieve jobdescription JOBD information

We would like to have an IBM i db2 service to retrieve information about job descriptions - in particular which jobdescription uses which libraries Use Case: Many applications use jobdescriptions to define which library is used to access data. Dur...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Delivered

Bring Node 8.x on IBM i

For going on with modern development on IBM i and to bring more developers and ISV's to the platform it will be very important to bring the latest LTS Release from Node(js) - Version 8.x - to the Platform as you did last year with Version 6.x. Use...
about 7 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 1 Delivered

add open file in (QDMLOPNF) to GET_JOB_INFO table function

please add to GET_JOB_INFO table function the jobs open file information as provided with API QDMLOPNF Use Case: none of the current SQL functions provide this information which will be helpful when looking for certain file information across jobs...
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 5 Delivered

change RESPONSE_HTTP_HEADER for QSYS2.HTTP_GET_VERBOSE when we want cookie

The HTTP functions do not handle the multiple use of the "set-cookie" headers within an HTTP response. The root issue is that JSON keys should be unique and multiple instances of the "set-cookie" key are not permitted in JSON. Here is a possible a...
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Delivered

Include non externally described files info in the SYSPARTITIONSTAT sql view

I'm using the qsy2.syspartitionstat function to analyze physical files info, like sizing, number of members, info change dates, and others. I find it really easy to use and has a great functionality. But I was surprised that it doesn't consider th...
11 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Delivered

Integrated Web Services Server Start Up

We are a provider of Healthcare applications utilizing IBM's Power Server running IBM i (v7r2m0 or better) OS. The HCS application uses IBM Websphere Application server express to serve up Java Script application to the users via a browser. Data r...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 2 Delivered

DB2 SQL Engine should pass the descriptor operator information to RPGLE so that ALL *SRVPGM procedures can be called

IBM talks about application modernization but the main player SQL (stored procedures and functions) can not properly execute the majority of our RPGLE service programs. Most service programs heavily rely on the %PARMS function to determine the num...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 5 Delivered

add PHP port to RPMs

we need a port of PHP for RPMs. I do not want to replace Zend, but with it being a licensed program it is "harder" to get installed. the ported PHP would not need db2 support and all the bells & whistles Zend provides.we need a simple IFS only...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 5 Delivered

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