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IBM i

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Add 'Jobs Using Connection' details to QSYS2.NETSTAT_INFO

Adding 'Jobs Using Connection' details to QSYS2.NETSTAT_INFO would provide valuable information when investigating connectivity issues. It would also bring the QSYS2.NETSTAT_INFO service inline with the information provided via the NETSTAT *CNN co...
5 months ago in IBM i / Core OS 1 Submitted

improve MERGE by adding the option "WHEN NOT MATCHED BY SOURCE THEN DELETE"

Today, it is impossible to use the DELETE clause behind WHEN NOT MATCHED.Some DBMS other than DB2 allow this.Would it be possible to add this feature, like in this example ? MERGE target_table USING source_table ON merge_condition WHEN MATCHED THE...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Submitted

Addition of Journal Code/Entry type description table

I'd like to suggest adding a table to QSYS2 with the contents of the help text for Journal Codes and Journal Entry Types. If we were to combine this table with DISPLAY_JOURNAL it would provide a greater amount of context to queries against journals.
11 months ago in IBM i / Other 1 Submitted

Websphere Liberty Express Start/Stop Multiple instances at one

Ability to start/stop Websphere Liberty Express instances at the same time. We have like 15 instances and currently doing sequential start/stop.
5 months ago in IBM i / Application Development / System Management 0 Submitted

Native PowerHA support for IBM FlashSystems (SVC) three-site configurations

Currently, PowerHA supports three-site configurations with IBM DS8000 storage through HyperSwap with Global Mirror technologies, and with Geographic Mirroring using multi-target Geographic Mirroring. IBM FlashSystems introduced three-site support ...
6 months ago in IBM i / PowerHA 1 Submitted

RPO History and Thresholds

With asynchronous replication sessions in PowerHA, recovery point objective (RPO) type information is currently displayed in fields like data exposure and freeze time. However, this information is not retained for historical purposes and the regul...
6 months ago in IBM i / PowerHA 0 Submitted

Windows 11 Pro ARM support with 64bit ODBC drivers so PowerBI Desktop and Excel can pull data from IBM I DB2. For all Mac M(x) ARM systems. Support for modern tooling

Power BI does not run on Mac Arm, but does in Parallels with Windows ARM. IBM 32bit drivers will install in Windows ARM, but 64bit will not. All modern tooling is requiring 64bit support. This kills MAC as a dev platform for IBM I with many modern...
4 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 0 Submitted

Navigator for i - Trivializing SIEM Integration

Problem Statement Network and Security Operation Centers have a high desire to utilize SIEM technologies to centralize the logging of health, service status, system status, etc... of various appliances (both hard and software) in the enterprise. A...
6 months ago in IBM i / System Management 0 Submitted

Enhance all SAVE and BRMS SAVE commands to be able to put an identical stream to other tapes

We recently found out that a DUPTAP needs twice as long as the SAVE which is sometimes a regulatory requirement. If the backup takes very long than this might result in 24 hours not being enough to complete the task (if the backup takes more than ...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 1 Submitted

Additions for the PRUV tool

Please add the following to the PRUV tool. Report on command default changes in IBM licensed program libraries. simple example (SELECT * FROM TABLE(QSYS2.OBJECT_STATISTICS('*ALL', '*CMD')) > WHERE APAR_ID = 'CHGDFT';) possible enhancements: in ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / Install and Upgrade and Licensing 0 Submitted

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