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IBM i

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Add More Resource type to Replication - ADDCADMRE

*DTAARA, *FILE, *OUTQ, *DEVD, *LIB also should be added to Monitoried resoucrses since some third party aplpication requires certain Objects to be replicated across ALL LPARs, inorder to maintain User Profiles, Data etc. Most of these objects only...
7 months ago in IBM i / PowerHA 0 Submitted

Restore useful links to IBM i Planning and remove worthless generic site.

The planning site underneath https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.5?topic=irs-related-information-installing-upgrading-deleting-i-related-software called "IBM Planning" could not possibly be any more useless. It should go to the good site. The good sit...
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / Documentation 0 Submitted

Change severity of CPD5D1D message

When compiling a program in Rational Developer for i (or 5250) a CPD5D1D maybe encountered if objects (modules or service programs) listed in the binding directory don't exist. This is not necessarily an error as long as you don't use procedures o...
4 months ago in IBM i / Application Development 0 Submitted

Make the system number static for multiple systems connected to HMCs

We have many LPARs which our many operators need to start console sessions on (monitoring backups, etc.). As such, we use macros to connect to these LPARs. When an HMC is rebooted, the number of the systems often change so the existing macros eith...
9 months ago in IBM i / System Management 1 Submitted

In the run sql scripts window, save the open tabs so that they can be reopened automatically.

In the run sql scripts window, several tabs are often open. When you're working on them for several days in a row, it's tedious to have to reopen them each time you start the window.It would be very useful to be able to indicate whether or not you...
9 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Submitted

FaceLink is a revolutionary platform that leverages facial recognition and AI to streamline personal and professional networking, making connections seamless, secure, and effortless.

Here's a revised version of the text, fixing the grammatical errors and improving the overall clarity and flow: Why FaceLink is Useful: FaceLink addresses the growing need for efficient, secure, and versatile networking in both personal and profes...
5 months ago in IBM i / Networking 0 Submitted

Add format level identifier to journal entries for database journaling

Today, journaling of database supply a lot of usefull information, but one is missing : the format level identifier, in other words, the description of the fields. Why do I need that ? Because sometimles I change a filed in a file. Then this file ...
5 months ago in IBM i / System Management 0 Submitted

IBMi AJS 7.5 is linked to previous 7.2 instead of current 7.5

I have updated my comments to the URL but as there were no response or changes I created this support. https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/ibm-advanced-job-scheduler-ihttps://www.ibm.com/docs/en/ssw_ibm_i_75/pdf/rzasnadjspdf.pdfthis URL is linked to...
5 months ago in IBM i / Documentation 1 Submitted

Profile usage space issue

Referring to support case TS012330272 – On OS/400, user profiles owned more than 2TB could have chance to get storage reported incorrectly (to a small number) by DSPUSRPRF and QSYS2/USER_STORAGE. IBM TS respond it's due to system limitation and th...
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / Storage 0 Submitted

Simplify multilingual support by changing CRTDSPF and CRTPRTF to support new MSGCON parameter "Resolve MSGCON MsgID values at" *COMPILE (default) *RUNTIME (optional)

Multilingual support can be greatly simplified if IBM supports resolving MSGCON messages at *RUNTIME. Currently MSGCON messages are resolved at compile time only (not good). This is problematic because it locks-in compile time values to object whi...
11 months ago in IBM i / Languages - Other 2 Submitted

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