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IBM i

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IBM i AI Assistant (Like ChatGPT, But Specialized for IBM i)

An intelligent assistant (CLI + Web + 5250 integration) that allows system admins, developers, and operators to ask natural language questions and get actionable, accurate, context-aware responses specific to the IBM i ecosystem. Command Explanati...
9 days ago in IBM i / AI with IBM i 0 Submitted

AI-Powered Job Log Analyzer

A native AI assistant that watches job logs (QHST, QSYSOPR, etc.) and :- Summarizes errors in human-readable form Suggests fixes from IBM docs Flags recurring patterns or anomalies Helps users and improves system reliability. It’s not "mission-cri...
9 days ago in IBM i / AI with IBM i 0 Submitted

ACS live editor

Using many tools that make use of SFTP and related, it is possible to go and edit objects in the ifs in real time. Given the new features it would be interesting to implement this change on ACS as well, so that it would be more complete since now ...
10 days ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Not under consideration

Locking objects on both systems in an Active-Passive environment - Db2 Mirror

Currently, locks are replicated in an Active-Passive Db2 Mirror environment. Is it necessary to lock objects or replicate locks exclusively or at the record level in the passive environment? If locking could be avoided in the "PASSIVE" environment...
11 days ago in IBM i / Db2 Mirror 0 Under review

Free Tier for IBM i (AS/400) to Support Education, Ecosystem Growth, and Promote IBM Cloud

Note: This proposal for IBM i addresses the exact same core issue of lacking a free tier for accessibility, education, and community growth as outlined for AIX in idea AIX-I-802: https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/AIX-I-802. Both platforms suffer from th...
14 days ago in IBM i / Core OS 1 Submitted

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...
14 days ago in IBM i / Security 0 Submitted

Enterprise Extender should be able to utilize a proxy and FQDN for connections.

Enterprise Extender should be able to utilize a proxy and FQDN for connections.
15 days ago in IBM i / Application Development 0 Submitted

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...
15 days ago in IBM i / Security 2 Submitted

Moving old data from production tables to historic tables in another library

In an active production system such as we have being in a 24 hour service financial environment, we have an issue with old data that exists in many of our database tables. Every second new data is being recorded in this tables and old the old data...
15 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Not under consideration

Provide an end time for long running jobs in Advanced Job Scheduler (5770JS1)

We have a number of long running AJS jobs that start 06:00 and end 23:00 for example. It would be great to have this function built-in rather than have to write a routine to end the job.
15 days ago in IBM i / System Management 0 Submitted

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