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IBM i

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    Add parameter to RSTLIB / RSTOBJ commands to restore table(s) without data

    Please consider adding a parameter to the RSTLIB and RSTOBJ commands to allow restore of DB2 tables / PF's without data (rows). It would be great to be able to restore libraries or objects without getting the data onto the system. Use case 1: We h...
    about 2 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 7 Future consideration

    Toggle the way BRMS handles message ID CPD33A8

    Dear IBM Team, Our organization supports a large number of IBM i customers, and our monitoring tools generate alerts whenever a backup failure occurs. I'd like to propose an enhancement that introduces a configurable option (e.g., a toggle setting...
    about 1 month ago in IBM i / BRMS 1 Future consideration

    Better error handling with record locking done in a procedure

    Using procedures is far more beneficial than subroutines. There is a catch though that record locks are not handled well in procedures. Example 1 (works great): Record level logic in subroutine, or in mainline. When doing file/record level access ...
    4 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 2 Future consideration

    CGI PDI Enable History Performance Reports PDF

    Inavigator PDI Performance Data Investigator.Create Report of History Performance data , and preferably to be able to schedule them. Use Case: PM400 is End Of Support by IBM , There is an high demand from our IBM i customers to have similar monthl...
    almost 5 years ago in IBM i / Performance Tools 7 Future consideration

    DSPPGMREF with SQL

    In SQL Services create a view or UDF, who have the same information as the CL command DSPPGMREF Use Case: get the list of programs that use a file ...
    about 6 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 8 Future consideration

    Enable no-auditing of /tmp like QTEMP

    Please change audit code to not audit any activity in /tmp direcotry when system value QAUDLVL has option *NOQTEMP set - or by adding a new option *NOIFSTMP. As this directory is to be used for temporary files by design like objects in QTEMP this...
    over 3 years ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 8 Future consideration

    Copy service definition in IWS

    Provide the ability to copy an existing service definition, so you don't have to go through all the steps to define a new service when a similar service already exists.
    6 months ago in IBM i / Web Serving 1 Functionality already exists

    Enhance iNavigator to allow copy of user profile to other systems when it contains a group profile.

    We would like to use iNavigator to copy user profiles from one system to many. This currently does not work if the user profile contains a group profile - which nearly 100% of user profiles do. Reference TS017839310 We consulted our Navigator deve...
    about 1 year ago in IBM i / System Management 1 Future consideration

    RPG - Conditional (Ternary) Operator (?:) in EVAL operation

    I'd like to be able to use conditional assignment (?:) in EVAL and EVALR operation in RPG. C, C#, java and many other languages have a conditional (aka ternary) operator. This allows developers to make very terse choices between two values based o...
    about 8 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 17 Future consideration

    ClamAV rpm requested for IBM i

    Please may we have a port of ClamAV (already available on AIX) for the IBM i platform incuding back to 7.1 :-) Use Case: Ability to run Open Source AV on the IBM i platform.
    over 4 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 8 Planned for future release

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