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IBM i

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Change of name for ILE/RPG

Time to give ILE/RPG a new name that is better suited to its current form.Call it "RPG for i", matching "Db2 for i". Use Case: By giving the RPG product a new name will help us define the difference between modern free format RPG & the older f...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 8 Not under consideration

ADMIN1 server environment to communicate with port 636 for SPNEGO

IBM Navigator for i Single Signon, the configuration currently supports only 389 ports. Our environment we allowed only 636 LDAPS service. So our security team asked to use the 636 instead of 389 to configure iNavigator SSO.
about 2 months ago in IBM i / System Management 0 Submitted

Post-Quantum Cryptography

Add to DCM the possibility of Post-Quantum Cryptography and also update version of OPENSSL to 3.50 for use it
4 months ago in IBM i / Security 2 Future consideration

Bring the Rust programming language to IBM i PASE

More and more open source packages depend on Rust so we would like to see the Rust language available on IBM i.
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 2 Submitted

Suggested versions of IBM i support for new Power Systems

Power 8 (generally) supports IBM i 7.1-7.4 Power 9 (generally) supports IBM i 7.2-7.5 Power 10 supports IBM i 7.3-7.6 (and, if the pattern holds) likely not iNext Power 11 supports IBM i 7.4-7.6 and likely iNext I propose that new systems should s...
6 months ago in IBM i / Hardware 1 Under review

"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.
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Networking 3 Future consideration

Add a new service that will convert *DTS columns to character date format.

When selecting and displaying data from a file with columns of type *DTS char( 8) the column cannot be viewed correctly via SQL 'SELECT' or handled directly for file search and review. Using the TIMESTAMP_FORMAT or the VARCHAR_FORMAT functions wil...
28 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Future consideration

Detailing environmental variables used by IBM products

It would be a great starting point having IBM list the environmental variables used for controlling additional application behavior allowing administrators the ability in some cases to control additional system behavior. eg QIBM_SMTP_FWDSVR_LCL_MAIL
5 months ago in IBM i / Documentation 2 Submitted

Allow CREATE OR REPLACE TABLE to set the correct source info in the resulting table

When we create a table using CREATE TABLE to create a new table, the object description of the resulting table contains the source information for the source member used by RUNSQLSTM to create the table. When we use CREATE OR REPLACE TABLE to repl...
7 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 6 Future consideration

In DATA-GEN, allow array count to be specified using a suffix in addition to prefix

We are using both the DATA-GEN operation and providing IWS web service using the same data structures. Unfortunately, the nomenclature to specify an array length for the two systems are opposite. IWS uses array_LENGTH to indicate array length and ...
6 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 1 Future consideration