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IBM i

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Provide an option with which the Prestart Job statistics can be reset in Navigator for i (Nav4i).

As more and more tasks can be performed using the Navigator for i and SQL services, the role of 5250 emulation is changing and having to go there for a missing option becomes a burden. The Navigator for i is great for managing prestart jobs, but w...
10 days ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 0 Submitted

Compiler may notice a missing Ctl-Opt Main() keyword

When the main() keyword in RPG is missing the compiler assumes RPG cycle logic, even if there is not a single C-spec outside a procedure available and all F-specs are coded with UsrOpn. When you call the program it runs at _QRNP_PEP_... and does n...
10 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 0 Submitted

Faster Encrypted Backups for IBM i

There are regulations that require to encrypt tape backups also for IBM i. However, software encryption requires about twice as long as the build-in real-time hardware encryption in IBM TS1xxx tapedrives. There are no means to manage the tape libr...
14 days ago in IBM i / Storage 0 Submitted

Audit which CL commands was executed using the QCMDEXC Procedure or scalar function.

Today if you execute a CL command inside of a QCMDEXC scalar function or QCMDEXC procedure, they are not audited. It would be extreamly helpful especially from a security perspective to be able to audit the commands that are executed that way.
14 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 0 Submitted

Allow custom commands to run in IWS

when creating an end point, we have the option to list the libraries where the api exists and thus, it also effects the library list that the job will run under. It would be nice to be able to run custom CL commands in that area to be executed whe...
14 days ago in IBM i / Web Serving 1 Future consideration

IWS Swagger page

We need a swagger page that we can test any of the endpoints we create in IWS. This would work like other API webtools that automatically create the swagger page that you can test the endpoints with.
14 days ago in IBM i / Web Serving 1 Future consideration

Enhance CREATE ALIAS to support a partition (i.e., member) name of *ALL

When attempting to read a multi-member database file, the only way to jump between members is to (A) do an OVRDBF or (B) create an SQL ALIAS. The SQL engine doesn't seem to respect the override when MBR(*ALL) is specified, and CREATE ALIAS also do...
15 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 0 Submitted

add extra detail to the view qsys2.AUDIT_JOURNAL_DATA_MART_INFO

for the AUDIT_JOURNAL_DATA_MART_INFO view please add a column for the number of records in the data mart file.
16 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 0 Submitted

Provide a C/C++ "API" or function to enable reading Deleted records from a database file.

Now that the system is "closed" we can't use our old ways to do certain things. There needs to be a way to go out to a database file record and programmatically "undelete" that record. That is, say I'm going to open file ABC using the open or fope...
17 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 0 Submitted

Add Update Version Check to ACS Emulator

Currently the version update check (when option is enabled) only works from the "main screen". Add an option to perform the test when the emulator is started. Outside of developers, most users have a limited number of IBM i servers to connect with...
20 days ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Functionality already exists