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IBM i

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Native DCM support for ACME protocol (Automatic Certificate Management Environment)

Certificate lifespan is drastically shortening. and certificates are fundamental in todays security. Lifespan will be 47 days in 2029. IBM i needs a robust way to automate the renewal of publicly signed certificates.
3 months ago in IBM i / Security 4 Future consideration

Add support for USB devices >256GB

As LTO Drives and media getting larger (and more expensive) it is not longer suitable for a daily backup on small environments. So a lot of customers use USB thumbdrives, but these are only supported up to 256GB Please add support (and test) for l...
4 months ago in IBM i / Hardware 6 Under review

Firmware level and PTF Group Currency on "About" page- IBM Navigator for i

My understanding is that Navigator for i get's it's info about the system through SQL. I am also aware of a SYSTOOL to show PTF group currency. My suggestion is to combine these two features, and include the PTF Group Currency on the "About" page ...
20 days ago in IBM i / System Management 0 Submitted

Add the HTML documentation options from the Heritage Navigator for i to the new BRMS HTTP server

In the Heritage Navigator for i BRMS gui section several options were available to create documentation. Those options did generate HTML documents. The quality of those HTML document was high. Allowing you to add them to your own BRMS documentatio...
5 days ago in IBM i / BRMS 1 Future consideration

Change Data Capture (CDC) support in Db2 for i

We have a requirement to stream data in realtime from Db2 for i to other consumers for AI, data warehouse and other systems. I'm aware there are third party products available like Debezium, Fivetran and others, and you can always roll your own. H...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 5 Submitted

Allow generic member/file name for /COPY and /INCLUDE compiler directive

Today if we have to include several copy member, we have use one /COPY or /INCLUDE directive per member: /include qcopysrc,copy01/include qcopysrc,copy02/include qcopysrc,copy03 My proposal is, to extend the /COPY and /INCLUDE directive to support...
27 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 6 Submitted

OVERRIDE_INFO for any job

At present OVERRIDE_INFO will only return results for the current job. Please allow it to return the same information for any job passed to it. It could be a Table function of the current view. Pass to it a fully qualified job name, or '*' for the...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Future consideration

Pendant to SND-MSG to retrieve the error message text

Being mainly a C# developer, it seams for me completely absurd that in RPG when you send an escape message with the SND-MSG function, you don't have a built in function to retrieve the error message text! Instead of having each developer/company t...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 2 Submitted

Subfile size 32767 rows.

Because the data to display are much more than in the past, we need to extend the maximum number of records allowed from 9999 to 32767.
11 days ago in IBM i / Application Development 0 Submitted

Built in function to subset an array using a procedure to filter

Create a new built in function to subset an array using a procedure to filter. Similar to the %SUBARR function, but allow a procedure to be specified to determine if the array entry should be included in the result. Something like ... dcl-ds array...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 2 Submitted