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please update ICU libraries

Please update ICU libraries on the machine. They are simply too old. Looking into QICU library there are ten years ago versions. By the way, the ICU project is maintained by IBM itself. ICU is published and enlisted in the public API of the system...
11 months ago in IBM i / Core OS 4 Future consideration

Need ability to sync from AIX File system cache in memory to disk when needed

When having filesystems with multiple TB of size and have a big read/update activity depending on the size of VM and his %Maxperm when shut down AIX and it comes to the umount point it might take hours before everyting is synched to disk. It shoul...
about 2 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

Add CPYJOBSCDE Command

we have work and add job scheduled entries but, can we also have a copy job scheduled entry? Sometimes you need to add a job scheduled entry and just change a script that is going to run. For example, First job scheduled entry SBMJOB CMD(QSYS/RUNS...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Core OS 4 Future consideration

Add native 2FA and/or MFA for 5250 and other interfaces to data

Data security insurance and other requirements are requesting Two Factor Authentication or Multi Factor Authentication access to data.
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Security 3 Future consideration

Make joblog displayed in RSS Messages window LIFO instead of FIFO or even better make it optional

With the introduction of IBM Services more and more system administration tasks are moving to SQL scripting. In those SQL scripts CL commands are used using the syntax "CL:". Also the scalar function QSYS2.QCMDEXC is used. When running commands in...
9 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Future consideration

Default parameter values for parameters defined with *omit or *nopass

Allow the definition of a default value for optional parameters so that rather than having to have to check %parms and use a second field as currently :- dcl-pi addItemToBasket; sku char(10); workQty int(10) options(*nopass)end-pi; dcl-s qty like(...
about 2 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 4 Future consideration

DSPPGMREF with SQL

In SQL Services create a view or UDF, who have the same information as the CL command DSPPGMREF Use Case: get the list of programs that use a file ...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 7 Future consideration

PowerVC support for Storage Virtualize Safeguarded Snapshots (SGC 2.0)

As an IBM business partner we have several customers using an IBM SAN Volume Controller stretched-cluster configuration with PowerVC for Private Cloud.The customers are interested in a Safeguarded Copy cyber resiliency solution but it cannot be re...
8 months ago in PowerVC 2 Future consideration

physical port on destination side for the migrating client LPAR

Physical port (FCS)on destination side for the migrating client LPAR can not see during the LPM on HMC GUI , so as mentioned the option is only available from HMC CLI with the command below: ~> migrlpar -o v -m <source_managed_system> -t ...
over 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

ping response time to be displayed in microseconds

Currently AIX ping shows response time in milliseconds like this: PING 10.128.172.56: (10.128.172.56): 56 data bytes64 bytes from 10.128.172.56: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=1 ms64 bytes from 10.128.172.56: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=0 ms 64 bytes from 10...
9 months ago in AIX 1 Future consideration

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