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IBM i

SEP in VS Code to debug any user or all users

When using a Service Entry Point to debug in Visual Studio Code, it is important to be able to debug other users' jobs. Currently, it will only break if the program is being run under the same user that started the debug session. Being able to spe...
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / Application Development Submitted

Empty QSYS/QS9MENUCE Menu and Continued Availability of Pre‑V5R3 Electronic Service Agent Menu Access

This is a remnant of the Electronic Service Agent from the 5798RZG LPO that was integrated into the base operating system, likely around V5R3. There are two traditional Electronic Service Agent menus, GO SERVICE and GO SERVICECE, that still persis...
4 months ago in IBM i / Other Submitted

Native PowerHA support for IBM FlashSystems (SVC) three-site configurations

Currently, PowerHA supports three-site configurations with IBM DS8000 storage through HyperSwap with Global Mirror technologies, and with Geographic Mirroring using multi-target Geographic Mirroring. IBM FlashSystems introduced three-site support ...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / PowerHA Submitted

IBM Navigator for i EIM reporting - users with their associations

Can you please provide the ability to export a list of EIM users along with their associations. Currently it's only possible to export the users. Something I can use to locate users that no longer have a target because their IBM i account has been...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Application Development Submitted

Ability to specify objects to OMIT/Ignore from the admin domain

While the administrative domain offers the ability to manually add resources into it, and provides capabilities such as ADDCADMRE that has wildcards and omits, one of the powerful features of the administrative domain are the automation policies: ...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / PowerHA Submitted

Upgrade level of OpenSSH from v9.6p1 to one which will pass scanning services.

IBM i: Qualys is dinging us for OpenSSH ssh Function Vulnerability (CVE-2025-61984)Opened up a case with IBM . The reply to the case was:This vulnerability was discovered fairly recently and has low (3.6 base) score on the X-Force Exchange site . ...
8 months ago in IBM i / Security Submitted

Add FSFC Full System Flashcopy option for holding Advanced Job Scheduler jobs

There is a parameter for holding regular scheduled jobs in the default IBM i job scheduler, but there is not one for the (newly free of charge) Advanced Job Scheduler. We would like one.
about 1 year ago in IBM i / Other Submitted

5733-ICC API to delete a no longer needed directory

There are cloud APIs to copy to, copy from cloud as well as one to remove a file from cloud. However if you file has a directory structure there is no way to remove any of those directories.
about 1 year ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud Submitted

6-digit date format for RPG

Hi IBM, On further checking, there is an IBM doc (date 2024-10-08) https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.5?topic=ios-changes-1940-2039-date-range-date-formats-2-digit-year that explained that new environment variable QIBM_QBASEYEAR apply to CL command, ...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG Submitted

More than 10000 lines in the System Debugger

We have (very) few big COBOL programs generated from an old 4GL generator. Theses programs exceed 10000 lines so we cannot acces to all the lines, and then we need to run STRDBG to debug them. We will be pleased to have more lines (20000 would be ...
9 months ago in IBM i / Application Development Submitted