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IBM i

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    RCVJRNE support journal entries QJORDJE5 Record Format (*TYPE5)

    System monitoring for many audit journal type to got relate IP information to determinate security issue
    3 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Needs more information

    JOURNAL ENTRY : Ability to open multiple DATA_DETAILS windows, compare the UB and UP journal data, and highlighting the modified data in color

    When displaying the logs, I would like to be able to open multiple UB and UP windows in sequence and have the tool highlight the data that has been modified. In the course of my work, I am often required to consult production logs in order to dete...
    3 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Future consideration

    Environment Branding Options for IBM Navigator for i landing page.

    Being able to tell at a glance the partition or environment you are signing into from the IBM Navigator would be immensely helpful in preventing adverse actions or changes in the wrong environment. Even changing the standard color scheme would be ...
    3 months ago in IBM i / Other 0 Submitted

    Restoring individual Authorization Lists.

    When moving one customer from a SAAS LPAR to his own LPAR, you must be restoring ALL user profiles to get all Authorization lists. The SAAS LPAR is running multiple customers with over 1500 user profiles. If you want to move one customer with abou...
    3 months ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 3 Future consideration

    Add a parameter in RSTOBJ command so we can restore files an can selecting attributes of files

    its usefull because may be you need to restore a group of large files with similar names (Like MST*) and only need to restore Physical files.something like this: RSTOBJ OBJ(*ALL) SAVLIB(MILIB) DEV(TAP01) OBJTYPE(*FILE) FILETYPE(*PF-DTA) or FILEATR...
    3 months ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 1 Functionality already exists

    Allow ability to invoke Functions and Stored Procedures using Specific name in addition to Long Name.

    Currently Tables, Index and Views have the ability to invoke using either the long name or the short 10 character name. It will benefit for adopting both short and long names and stay consistent with Tables, Indexes and Views.
    3 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Not under consideration

    Add a CLI assitant similar to RHEL "Command Line Assistant" on IBM i (and AIX)

    Everyday we hear about experts shortage on IBM i . The RHEL CLI Assistant is loaded with support tickets , and it looks really great. It ca even write scripts for basic operation. It would be great a similar tool on AIX and IBM i , so we can check...
    3 months ago in IBM i / AI with IBM i 0 Submitted

    Run SQL Scripts - add "bind:" prefix/command like VScode/Db2i

    Using ? parameter markers or :host-variables in ACS RSS is great, but the Db2i extension for VScode has implemented a "bind:" line-prefix / statement which helps a lot, when copying SQL statements from an RPG program source, to try them. Here an e...
    3 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Future consideration

    Add mktemp utility to qshell & pase shell

    Provide the mktemp utility that is generally standard in most *nix environments. https://refspecs.linuxbase.org/LSB_3.1.0/LSB-Core-generic/LSB-Core-generic/mktemp.html
    3 months ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 1 Functionality already exists

    Teach "Refactor | Rename to use file ALIAS" about variable scoping

    I had occasion to use this refactor function today and it surprised me. I have used it before with much success. I had a file declared globally that contained a field FIELD1 (we'll say). I also had an externally described data structure in a sub-p...
    3 months ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Under review

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