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Possibility for %lookup to search more than one field of a structure.

In data structures, lookup using %lookup is fantastic. But it would be interesting to add the possibility of searching on two or more fields: structure(1).field1 = 'A'; structure(1).field2 = 123; structure(1).field..... structure(2).field1 = 'B'; ...
8 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 2 Future consideration

Add Command and Package Definitions to the new Navigator for i (iACS)

After migrating to the newer IBM i ACS environment, Management Central system function is missing from IBM Navigator for i!!! The Management Central of old Client Access iNavigator, provided the ability to simultaneously perform systems management...
7 months ago in IBM i / System Management 3 Future consideration

Enable volume sharing and set storage template on multiple volumes in GUI

When multiple storage volumes are being created or onboarded through PowerVC GUI, the volume sharing and set storage template options can only be done on one volume at a time. This is very time consuming and laborious job from the GUI when the num...
almost 1 year ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

/extra filesystem is created only with 20GB of storage - to less for storing mulitple vios-images

When attempting to upload a second VIOS installation image to the HMC, an error occurs: cpviosimg -h xxx.xx.xx.xx -l /src_nim/iso_images -f Virtual_IO_Server_Base_Install_3.1.4.30_DVD_1_of_2_112023_LCD8250111.iso,Virtual_IO_Server_Base_Install_3.1...
about 2 months ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

"Mail from" address in SMTP email design change to allow user and domain name in lower case.

Currently the design has hard coded setting that forces Upper Case on user and domain name in SMTP on Mail From.
12 months ago in IBM i / Networking 2 Under review

1040 dashboard improvement: Resource summary : partitions deactivated instead of warning

1040 dashboard design changed required to improve user experience: under Resource summary ; remove deactivated partitions from the warning counter. Or even better let the deactivated partions have a unique counter: i.e. "inactive".
about 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Planned for future release

SQL Function to Create Spool File

Add SQL function to output query results directly to a spool file. This would be really helpful for simple ad hoc queries and eliminate the need to create an RPG program or dumping query results to an outfile and then using RUNQRY over the outfile...
2 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Under review

add a %round built-in function

While %inth and %dech exist, they only allow for half up rounding and don’t have an option to round to a negative number of decimal places (e.g. 123 => 120). The %dech built-in is kind of awkward because you always must specify the size and pre...
4 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 1 Future consideration

Change of WLM start/restart behave in passive mode

When restart or start Workload Manager WLM the AIX is set internal locks to be shure that no new porcess,fork etc can happen until AIX has checked all running processes again WLM rules. On a multi terrabyte memory machine this can lead to 5-7 minu...
6 months ago in AIX 0 Submitted

Extension of the reference manual "DB2 for i SQL Reference"

We have noticed that specifying a record format name when creating an SQL index always creates a derived index. In our case, access paths were therefore created twice. We were able to solve this problem by not specifying the record format name in ...
15 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 0 Submitted

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