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My votes: IBM i

Add PowerHA support for volume group snapshots as alternative to flash copy

Currently IBMi PowerHA supports remote mirror and policy based replication. PowerHA also support flash copy to copy an iASP from a source cluster node to a target cluster node. We use this technology to refresh our dev and acceptance systems with ...
3 days ago in IBM i / PowerHA Submitted

SMB 3.1.1 support needed in V7.5

Security: CIS Benchmark for Windows 11 (CIS Microsoft Windows 11 Enterprise Benchmark v4.0.0) requires SMB version 3.1.1. Enforcement of this benchmark is a customer requirement
3 days ago in IBM i / Security Submitted

Allow implicit literal conversion for options(*string) when ccsid(*exact) is in use

Currently, when ctl-opt ccsid(*exact) is in use, literals cannot be directly passed to procedures with parameters defined as pointer value options(*string). They have to be wrapped with %char() function to be converted to job's CCSID. Below fails ...
3 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG Future consideration

Improve usability: Notify users with direct access to batch job results after submission

Enhance the system to send a completion message to the submitting user when the batch job finishes. The message should include: Direct options or links to: View spooled files View job log Reduces time spent locating job results Improves usability ...
4 days ago in IBM i / Other Submitted

QEZUSRCLNP program settings

Hi, The QEZUSRCLNP program allows you to add a specific part to the system cleaning.It is located in QSYS.Problem: when upgrading the OS, if you don't remember to regenerate the customized version in QSYS, you'll end up with the standard version. ...
5 days ago in IBM i / System Management Submitted

Add a memory compression feature to IBM i, with AME analog functionality (HW or SW based)

We all know memory prices are going high, really high, IBM Power CPU is to powerful, so exchanging CPU cycles for memory does not sound crazy. Actual applicantions based on SQL and multi-threaded languages eat more memory than RPG and Cobol in the...
6 days ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud Not under consideration

%like() function in RPG

In the recent years a lot of string functions have been added to RPG.But I'm missing a %like() function like we know from QUERY and SQL. it could be something like:%like('%day%' : 'Today is Monday and the sun is shining')and it should return true....
6 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG Submitted

Enhance BOOLEAN support in SQL pre-compiler for ILE-RPG

Since the addition of the BOOLEAN data type in DB2 for i existing RPG programs might run into problems. The BOOLEAN support of the SQL pre-compiler is documented here. Now if there is an existing table with a column "column1" of type CHAR(1) it wa...
7 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG Submitted

Query Temporary Address Table to determine useage

Customers with large temporary address usage need to research what has been allocating the addresses so they can be addressed in their code. Would like to know more information about when it was created such as job name, program, etc. They ability...
10 days ago in IBM i / System Management Submitted

ACS Windows App Pkg English (64bit) Version: 1.1.0.29

Hello IBM ACS users Hello IBM, In the latest IBM ACS Windows App Pkg 1.1.0.29, ODBC SSL encryption is not available for 32-bit applications (typically MS Excel and MS Access). We use a large Citrix farm, where both Citrix and Microsoft recommend u...
10 days ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family Functionality already exists

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