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Relaxe the restriction for the QUALIFIED keyword use on LIKEDS strucctures.

When coding RPG IV, I use Templates and the LIKEDS keyword, and also use non-Template data structures with the LIKEDS keyword. RPG IV muscle memory instinctively has me writing: DCL-DS myStruct Qualified LIKEDS(struct_tmpl) Inz(*LIKEDS); The probl...
about 10 hours ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 0 Submitted

%elem on enum

I would like to define the size of my dim array depending on the number of elements of my enum. Example : dcl-enum my_enum qualified; value1 const('1'); value2 const('2'); end-enum; dcl-s my_array char(1) dim(%elem(my_enum));
1 day ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 1 Functionality already exists

Add the ability to execute a custom AcsConfig.properties in a specific folder when calling acsbundle.jar

I have to deploy ACS in a customer Citrix environnement, with different categories of user and with specific needs (limited access to IFS folders, no SQL client connections for just one category, ...).My intent would be to create as many AcsConfig...
1 day ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 0 Submitted

Add more functionality to *VAR and *AUTO arrays

I really love the new *AUTO and *VAR arrays, I use them quite often. I would really like more functionality to be added, like the methods available for JavaScript arrays. Some examples assuming an Array "A20" with dim(*auto:20) : I gather a set of...
3 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 0 Submitted

Granular API Token Management in CMC

The current IBM Cloud Management Console (CMC) API token system provides limited control over access permissions. We propose enhancing the token management capabilities to provide greater flexibility and security: Multiple API Tokens: Allow users ...
6 days ago in Cloud Management Console 0 Submitted

Retrieving Events/Alerts in CMC from API

Currently, the IBM Cloud Management Console (CMC) provides notifications of events and alerts only via email and SMS. This limits the ability to integrate CMC with other monitoring, ticketing, and automation systems. We propose adding a RESTful AP...
6 days ago in Cloud Management Console 0 Submitted

Extend threshold monitoring and alerting for memory usage

The settings in the cmc for pep2.0 allow the user to set individual thresholds for core usage in a particular cpu pool. However, there is no such setting to notify about overusage of memory. Extending the pool thresholds for memory usage would hel...
2 months ago in Cloud Management Console 1 Submitted

Security: Add to user configuration option to log in only from selected IP address

Currently, HMC does not allow you to restrict a user's login to a selected IP address. Such an option is available in SSH however it cannot be used on the HMC console. Currently, it is possible to restrict SSH logins (all of them) using the firewa...
5 days ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

Follow up for CVE-2024-27275 and ACS - > Database Maintenance with Function Usage options

With the recent changes to restrict *PUBLIC from *USE to *EXCLUDE in regards to files created in QRECOVERY for db administration tasks like reorganizing tables (physical files), table alters and index rebuilds, would it be possible with the except...
7 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Submitted

Enable per-UID network routing like iptables

In most if not all Linux distributions, iptables is used for network routing. IPTables enables routing per UID like so: sudo ip rule add uidrange 1001-1001 table user_wlp sudo ip route add default via 192.168.53.14 table user_wlp This will set the...
7 days ago in AIX 0 Submitted

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