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    IBMi request new Kerberos ticket

    With Enterprise Identity Mapping (EIM) and Kerberos, Windows clients can authenticate to IBMi without supplying a user and password. When the client connects, it supplies IBMi with a Kerberos ticket for authentication. A Kerberos ticket has a fixe...
    almost 7 years ago in IBM i / Security 5 Not under consideration

    RPG string templates

    Modern applications are using strings more and more to provide data for documents and web applications. Strings can be constructed today but the syntax get the process very convoluted especially when strings folds over several lines and contains v...
    almost 8 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 5 Not under consideration

    CPE3025 should tell what exactly is missing.

    The message CPE3025 occurs when a file or folder in the IFS cannot be found. But you have to guess which one, as CPE3025 doesn't tell. Edit: it is obviously me sending the message; sorry. But nevertheless, a common data structure for CPExxxx-messa...
    about 1 year ago in IBM i / Core OS 2 Not under consideration

    BRMS Web GUI interface needs to be made available for 5770BR1

    Fortra has developed a web interface for BRMS replacing the old web navigator interface that was deprecated. This new interface is only available in the new software subscription for BRMS, 5770BR2 with PTFs SJ00271and SJ00272.Not every customer is...
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / BRMS 3 Not under consideration

    Add an SQL processing option to automatically produce default values for NULL columns

    Add a new processing option for use in SET OPTION statement that would cause DB2 to essentially produce COALESCE() functions for null capable columns. Suggested option keyword: GENDFTONNULL. Default to *NO for compatibility. *YES would cause null ...
    about 1 year ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Not under consideration

    Provide DKIM signing to the SMTP server/client on IBM i

    DomainKeys Identified Mail, or DKIM, is an authentication protocol that links a domain name to a message. The protocol allows you to sign your email with your domain name. The purpose of the DKIM protocol is not only to prove that the domain name ...
    over 4 years ago in IBM i / Networking 5 Not under consideration

    Expand on the Authority Collection process by logging commands that actually use the special authorities granted on user profile

    I'm trying to clean up security and while the Authority Collection process is valuable, I need to go a step farther. There are too many IDs with any combination of special authorities, and I do not have a clean way to monitor if it's needed. I wou...
    10 months ago in IBM i / Security 2 Not under consideration

    SSL/TLS support for SET_SERVER_SBS_ROUTING

    We have a number of customers within our Managed Service offering, all of which are using ODBC/JDBC connectivity. To enable us to manage these connections we are adopting the use of SET_SERVER_SBS_ROUTING to route users into different subsystems. ...
    about 9 years ago in IBM i / System Management 1 Not under consideration

    need a new QPWD system value that allows to set case sensitivity mix

    need a new QPWD system value that allows to set case sensitivity mix that aligns with the rest of QPWD* system values. We are working on align the IBMi password set with our company policy. but, As per the documentation(IBM), if we do use QPWDRule...
    10 months ago in IBM i / Security 4 Not under consideration

    Disallow read-write shares of the root of the IFS

    All read-write shares of the ROOT of the IFS on IBM i should be prevented and disallowed via NetServer and SAMBA etc. Use Case: An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
    over 5 years ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 4 Not under consideration

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