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IBM i

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Command / SQL service to retrieve specific IPL attributes

Increased use of flash copy requires changes to IPL attributes before the copy has been made, to control the behaviour of the cloned partition. These changes need to be reverted on the parent partition to avoid unwanted behaviour at IPL. Althoug...
about 2 years ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 2 Future consideration

TFTP server, please allow modern TFTP options allowing more than 32MB files

Please implement rolling to 0, allowing client interopatibility. Thus I think the options here basically are: IBM strives for full adherence to what it is prescribed by the RFC standard so refuses to interoperate with basically common TFTP clients...
about 3 years ago in IBM i / Networking 8 Not under consideration

Extend WRKJOB (or new SQL service) to show open descriptors of a job

When analyzing issues some times I must also check how many descriptors a job has in use. In case of f_type VNODE I will also check the IFS path. To get these information I must execute the following statement: CALL PGM(QP0FPTOS) PARM('*DUMPLFS' &...
about 2 years ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 3 Future consideration

In addition to adopting authority to access data BRMS should swap user profiles too.

IBM i 7.5 killed some BRMS functions we were using by changing the *PUBLIC authority to data from *USE to *EXCLUDE. You may think this is a security enhancement but it isn't. Now instead of users only being able to see data we have to add QBRMS as...
about 2 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 8 Not under consideration

ACS1.1.9.0 has tabs for runsql scripts. need to keep results for each tab

added in 1.1.9.0 is tabs for runsql scripts. while I can run different scripts for each tab I can only have one results pane. We need to have a results window for each tab.
over 2 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Future consideration

Enabled HTTP Admin to connect to SSL host servers only

Enabled HTTP Admin to connect to SSL host servers only. Use Case: Enabled HTTP Admin to connect to SSL host servers only.
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 3 Future consideration

About the character code on ? of ACS version 1.1.8.4 or later

Due to the RFE 132374 "ACS --Enable to input ¥ view" Yen "and" Backslash "at the same time", the character code of ¥ on ACS (version 1.1.8.4 or later) is now x'B2'. Clients often use ¥ at the beginning of commands, so the commands that include ¥ c...
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

IWS Mulit-row update and post Web service

Possibility of multi-row put or post via web service with JSON data. Use Case: Sending (PUT or POST) multi-row JSON data to a web service only handels the first record?No error Ex. (two records): { "CUSTOMER_NAME" : "Sally Bronze", "CUSTOMER_ADDR...
about 3 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 9 Future consideration

Pleas port ImageMagick to the yum repository

ImageMagick is a great tool for images creation and manipulation (https://www.imagemagick.org/). It also have options to convert images to a format suitable for printing. Use Case: Examples:- print an image directly from IFS,- convert a png image ...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 1 Not under consideration

Ability to sort WRKQRY/RUNQRY in arrival sequence

With the changes being made to query and its move from the CQE to SQE, this has exposed an issue where it offers no way to sort records in arrival sequence. The record order cannot be guaranteed unless it is specified as a sort field but query has...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 6 Not under consideration