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IBM i

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    Add a preserve/overlay operation extender to the EVAL opcode.

    When migrating the MOVE and MOVEL opcodes to free format, simple assignments are often the right choice. But in some cases, the MOVEL operation is effectively an integrated/implied substring operation. MOVEL 'ABC' CHAR20 Only replaces the first 3 ...
    5 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 3 Submitted

    Provide an end time for long running jobs in Advanced Job Scheduler (5770JS1)

    We have a number of long running AJS jobs that start 06:00 and end 23:00 for example. It would be great to have this function built-in rather than have to write a routine to end the job.
    10 months ago in IBM i / System Management 2 Submitted

    API for getting thread id & thread name such as in command PRTJVMJOB *thread

    For JVM users and ERP (such as M3 or others), the thread id inside JVM could be internal to software or dedicated tool. In this case, to investigate job performance such as idoctor or job watcher it is impossible to search a job or tasks with the ...
    10 months ago in IBM i / JAVA 0 Submitted

    Allow conditional service break point in iASP environment

    Conditional service breakpoints do not work in an iASP environment. The 'WHEN' clause on a service breakpoint does not work in an iASP envrionment. We have thousands of jobs and threads servicing tens of thousands of customer connections to our sy...
    over 2 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 4 Submitted

    Graphic tool or sql service to know the percentage of use of the tapes.

    Currently there is no tool or any sql service that helps to know the percentage of use/free is a tape device. For now there is only this old method to calculate it. https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/how-much-data-and-how-much-free-space-available-...
    over 2 years ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 3 Submitted

    When delete user profile(DLTUSRPRF), disregard user with IASP which cause failure.

    Power HA admin domain has issue with user that has job description with initial asp set, while trying to delete user profile. Receive message below on source: CPIBB12 Resource MFERNAN7 is inconsist> CPFBB2E Job submission failed for cluste> ...
    5 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 3 years ago in IBM i / Documentation 0 Submitted

    D-IPL from VTL in IBM Cloud for IBMi VSI builds

    As far as I can see, there is no straightforward process to install IBMi VSIs in Cloud. There is a long winded process of setting up an NFS, adding image catalog, populating the catalog, sharing it, etc. If I have a system save of the on-prem imag...
    12 months ago in IBM i / Install and Upgrade and Licensing 0 Submitted

    Make Postgres 15.6 available in OpenSourceManagement

    the latest supported version of Postgres on IBMi is 12.17-1 but Postgres 12 is getting EOL on Nov 2024 when will Postgres 15.6 become available in OpenSourceManagement
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 0 Submitted

    Enable Websphere http-server to serve bearer authorization with wizard assist

    Add an wizard to configure the authorization to use bearer instead of basic
    almost 2 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 0 Submitted

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