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Tracking the number of message KEYS used by an active program

This is about MESSAGE KEYS. There are a limited number of message KEYS that a job can use. When that limit is reached, the job stops functioning and must be restarted. This job is very important to our business and processes MQ transactions and we...
5 days ago in IBM i / Core OS 0 Submitted

ADD in QSYS2 TABLES a new table to know wich programms use an exported porcedure from à service program

Hi, QSYS2 functions and tables allow you to know:- What procedures are exported by our service programs.- What programs use our service programs. But it is not possible to know which programs use which exported procedure. This is a pity because it...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Application Development 1 Submitted

Split DBOpen exit point in new format

DBOpen Exit Point takes care of ANY database access, regardless what type. This results in performance problems. Severals performance tests show that from 100% DBOpen Acess apx. 95%-99% are coming from Native I/Os. This is from exit point technolo...
14 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Submitted

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 ...
14 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 0 Submitted

Allow for Synchronous Policy Based Replication (PBR) on IBM Storwize

With the recent version of IBM Storwize, metro mirror - synchronous replication - is no longer available for IBM i. This version allows for policy based replication (PBR) or policy based High-Availability (PBHA), both asynchronous. In order to get...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Storage 1 Submitted

Add user to SEP parameter so we can target another users job with that SEP

With the recent release of SEP support for Merlin and VS Code, it seems that they made it just use the user you connected to the IBM i with. In my product, we rarely (dare I say never) want to set an SEP on our current user. We need to 'catch' the...
3 months ago in IBM i / Application Development 1 Submitted

Addition of Journal Code/Entry type description table

I'd like to suggest adding a table to QSYS2 with the contents of the help text for Journal Codes and Journal Entry Types. If we were to combine this table with DISPLAY_JOURNAL it would provide a greater amount of context to queries against journals.
19 days ago in IBM i / Other 1 Submitted

Add CRTPERIOD (similar to CHGPERIOD) on the "SAV" CL Command

When doing large migrations, the number of objects in the IFS could add up to nearly terabytes. We would like to save IFS files based on Creation Date rather than Last Changed Date. The benefit is we can migrate files created before or since a spe...
4 days ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 0 Submitted

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...
13 days ago in IBM i / Core OS 0 Submitted

UUID datatype for IBMi

A UUID is a U niversally U nique Id entifier, meaning that these identifiers are unique over your whole DB; even better unique" across space and time". UUID's are stored in 128bit format and follow a standarized format ( rfc4122 ) This makes the t...
22 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Submitted