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IBM i

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Micro partition of a 1 core 9009-22G

Need to micropartition a 1 core 922G so we can create client paritions Use Case: Customer need to have several partitions even on a small system with 1 core, possible on a 914G 4 core system
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / Install and Upgrade and Licensing 3 Not under consideration

Allow sending printed output to an existing stream file.

When over-riding a printer file to send output to a stream file, if the stream file exists message CPF4208 is sent. Use Case: We are using the TOSTMF and WSCST parameters of the OVRPRTF command to create documents in PDF format and emailing them. ...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 4 Not under consideration

EDRSQL server requires QUSER *RWX authority to ROOT

We recently secured our ROOT directory in the IFS; however, when the EDRSQL server job (QXDAEDRSQL) starts up; MSG CPE3401 is shown in the joblog and the job ends. (see attached joblog) The Security Audit Journal records an Authority Failure (AF) ...
about 1 year ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Future consideration

xlsx file format transferfile from ACS dtfx crashes external pivot table with link to that xlsx

We work with pivot tables in Excel with link to source XLSX files, daily refreshed with dtfx files and java-code from Power i.Filetransfer we did before with RXFERPCB.exe and DTF files and all pivot tables worked fine.Now we transfer the files wit...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Not under consideration

RDI: rendering a screen takes forever - should cache field reference file

I'm working from home via VPN. When editing a subfile in a display file it takes forever to render the screen using the screen designer. A total of 28 fields in the subfile control and subfile took 10 minutes to render. I think that the cause is t...
about 1 year ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Future consideration

DDS: Add trim-indicator to all mainstream 1D BARCODE (i.e. COD128)

DDS: Add trim-indicator to all mainstream 1D BARCODE (i.e. COD128) like 2D QR barcodes. Frequently used codes like COD128 lacks the ability to trim right spaces before rendering the barcodes. Consequently, a real case of a field say of 30 chars, t...
about 1 year ago in IBM i / Print 1 Future consideration

Change RPG to support UNLOCK using RCDFMT name

RPG allows us to CHAIN using RCDFMT. RPG forces us to UPDATE/DELETE using RCDFMT. RPG does NOT allow us to UNLOCK using RCDFMT... This leads to buggy code -- it would be easier to spot mistakes and avoid bugs if we could CHAIN RCDFMT, UPDATE RCDFM...
about 2 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 2 Future consideration

Integrated Web Services server / two-tier web services / need to be able to supply profile and password for remote system

When configuring IWS in two-tier web services mode it appears to be inheriting the profile you set the IWS to run as as the profile to connect to the remote system as. Using good security practices the two machines should have at the very least se...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 1 Future consideration

Tool or job to query ESS and update OS keys

Currently OS keys for CBU systems need to be updated annually.Also, OS keys need to be either downloaded from ESS, which is often problematic, or manually installed. It would be helpful to have an OS based tool that could be used to - from the OS ...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Install and Upgrade and Licensing 3 Future consideration

Prevent Data Corruption Via CPYSPLF

CPYSPLF, which by default is set to *PUBLIC *USE, if directed at a regular, multi-field database file, will overwrite that file without warning. Request is to either prevent the copy or issue a warning that multiple fields will be overwritten. (I ...
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / Print 3 Not under consideration

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