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port logrotate

Port the logrotate(n1) utility. n1 - https://linux.die.net/man/8/logrotate Use Case: I have had use cases in both Ruby and Node.js. In short it would be good to have a log rotation utility (logrotate specifically) that existed for all of PASE.
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 3 Delivered

Automatically propagate hostname/ip address in hardware management interfaces

You can specify up to 6 hardware management interfaces in ACS for every defined system.We would like to have the field "hostname / ip address" - including the correct URL - automatically propagated with required information.IBM already knows the c...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered

Viewing Disk Path information without using DST/SST

To view the current state and number of paths to a disk unit you need to go into SST. This means you need to give access to a potentially high risk area of the system, in order to gauge simple disk health information. Use Case: Firstly to add path...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 4 Delivered

Option to suppress individual RDI "not used" markers

RDi marks variables that aren't used in the left margin, the right margin and a blue squiggle under the variable. The mouse-over tells you that the item isn't used. There are times when you want to permanently suppress that for a given variable in...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Delivered

Extend QNTC beyond the restrictions of NTBIOS.

Many of us today have to deal with systems in the cloud. I need to transfer data to AZURE from out IBMi. Microsoft's Azure has URL names that are longer than 60 characters which QNTC cannot use. QNTC needs to be SMB 3.0 compliant. User ID and pass...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 6 Delivered

Run SQL statements using IBM I Source physical Files

This is lost functionality2) More than colleague runs these scripts3) Using a source physical file on the IBM i allows you to keep the scripts in the schema that they belong to4) Backups are automatically handled5) No concerns/lost scripts when so...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Delivered

Add "For System Name" clause to "Create Sequence"

We commonly use database sequences in DB2 for i for unique counters in our applications which are created with a "create sequence" statement. DB2 also allows for the use of long names with sequences similar to other database objects. However, the ...
about 7 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Delivered

Preserve case sensitivity of identifiers for COBOL web services

When creating webservices currently COBOL does not have a way preserve the case of identifier names used in the COBOL program when generating PCML. Use Case: When interacting with Nadir Amra from IBM, amra@us.ibm.com, whilst trying to solve a prob...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / Languages - Other 5 Delivered

Generate an event file when executing CRTCMD

Create Command should generate an Event File. The command interface is one of the rarest and most elegant features of IBM i. The primary development tool for IBM i is now Rational Developer for i--hence, CRTCMD should be fully interfaced with it i...
almost 9 years ago in IBM i / Languages - CL (Control Language) 6 Delivered

Ability to read payloads when the web service is returning an error HTTP status code

When consuming web services using SYSTOOLS HTTP functions it would be important to have the ability to read payloads when the web service is returning an error HTTP status code like 422 Unprocessable Entity.The web apis served by IBMi are already ...
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Delivered