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Add an HTTP status code for SQL not found

When deploying a REST web service based on SQL queries, it is possible to specify an HTTP status code for success (200 by default) and another for error (500 by default). However, when reading datas by an SQL select and a WHERE clause (e.g., sele...
5 months ago in IBM i / Web Serving 3 Future consideration

New QSYS2 Table function : QSYS2.WRITER_INFO

Hello, I wanted to retrieve the list of all the writers present on my client's machine.I tried with the SQL table : QSYS2.OBJECT_STATISTICS.SELECT * FROM TABLE (QSYS2.OBJECT_STATISTICS('*ALL ','*DEVD')) WHERE OBJATTRIBUTE in ('PRTLAN','PRTVRT','PR...
3 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Future consideration

Add SQL functions to return elements from qualified job name

When we use the IBM i Services or SQL PL we often have a qualified job name, e.g. in the global variable QSYS2.JOB_NAME. Many of the services have been expanded with the elements of the job name in addition to the qualified job name. i.e. job name...
27 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Future consideration

Make SQL function URL_ENCODE support RFC3986

RFC3986 dictates that any space in a URL must be converted to "%20". However, when we run "values URL_ENCODE(' Hello there!'), we get "Hello+there%21" with the plus sign instead of "%20". The same is output from URLENCODE in SYSTOOLS. It seems lik...
27 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Future consideration

enhancement with PowerHA Site-failure scenario with Hyperswap design

It is about IBM i site failure protection with PowerHA + HyperSwap. When the source server and storage both power down, suppose the target server and storage (DS8K) will takeover the iASP asap. But there is a scenario the target LPAR will be hang ...
28 days ago in IBM i / PowerHA 1 Submitted

Provide an up to date version of ICU - International Components for Unicode (5770SS1 - Option 39)

Having to deal more and more with Unicode and some applications that are still restricted to EBCDIC codepages, I was looking at the ICU library but found out that the most recent version on IBM is 4.0 which dates from 2009 (more as 15 years old) ?...
7 months ago in IBM i / Core OS 1 Submitted

Add issuer certificate serial number in qsys2.certificate_info and QycuRetrieveCertificateInfo API

In the DCM GUI, the hierarchy view provides the certification chain: the authority (one or more) + the client/server certificate. However, there is no solution for finding this link using code: The qsys2.certificate_info SQL service and the QycuRe...
4 months ago in IBM i / Security 1 Future consideration

Removal of 4-Core Limit for IBM-i VMs on the S1022

Description: As a forward-thinking organization leveraging IBM-i on the S1022 server, we are consistently seeking ways to enhance performance, optimize resource utilization, and meet our increasing workload demands. In light of this, we submit the...
about 1 year ago in IBM i / Install and Upgrade and Licensing 10 Under review

Remove permissions from catalog files

Here is a reproducible example Signon on QSECOFR or a profil with *secadm create a table CREATE TABLE LIB.CLIENTBQ ( NUMERO DEC ( 5) NOT NULL WITH DEFAULT, NOM CHAR ( 20) NOT NULL WITH DEFAULT, IBAN CHAR ( 14) NOT NULL WITH DEFAULT) remove public ...
4 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Future consideration

Prohibit changing the activation group name of a program

If you create a program using the CRTPGM command, you have an ALWUPD() parameter. Setting it to *NO prevents you from changing the activation group name using the UPDPGM ... ACTGRP(new group) command. When you create a program using the CRTBNDXXX ...
4 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 0 Submitted