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IBM i

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Add auditing to successful authentications

IBM i records failed authentications, which appear in the audit journal entries, but is missing a unified entry type for successful authentications. From an auditing perspective, this makes it hard to comprehensively track and report on successful...
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / Security 3 Future consideration

Allow RDi to use saved ACS configuration.

RDi includes Access Client Solutions (ACS), but it doesn't allow you to use a saved configuration (e.g. 5250 .HOD file). This limits the usefulness of this tool
over 1 year ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Future consideration

Add new parameter SAVDTA( *YES | *NO ) to the SAVLIB and SAVOBJ commands.

It would offer the ability to save a library (or object) without data so that a new instance of an application could be created starting with an empty database. Everything would be saved except the data. When the library is later restored tables a...
11 months ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 4 Future consideration

Additions for the PRUV tool

Please add the following to the PRUV tool. Report on command default changes in IBM licensed program libraries. simple example (SELECT * FROM TABLE(QSYS2.OBJECT_STATISTICS('*ALL', '*CMD')) > WHERE APAR_ID = 'CHGDFT';) possible enhancements: in ...
about 1 year ago in IBM i / Install and Upgrade and Licensing 0 Submitted

Usage of Enumeration in "Outline"-View

When we declare fields, files, enumerations etc. we can see them in our Outline-view and click on them to jump to their declaration in the code.With normal fields, files etc. we also get the references which indicate in which line they are used an...
7 months ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Future consideration

IBM i SSO authentication against Azure Global AD

Actually, a valid Network Authentication service and EIM configuration permits to use SSO on IBM i through different Windows AD realms for the users to authenticate to the IBM i using their windows usernames. New times requires new technologies fo...
almost 3 years ago in IBM i / Security 3 Future consideration

BRMS ICC - avoid loop when no more media available (using volume prefixes)

Hello, That it might be interesting not to loop the backup when there is no more media available. we always get Cartridge xxx not available message in BRMS log when job is stuck. Regards, Axel C.
5 months ago in IBM i / BRMS 1 Under review

SQLRPGLE precompiler - allow usage of large VARCHARS by interpreting the same as SQLTYPE(CLOB)

Currently you cannot use large RPGLE VARCHARs (length >= 32705) in EXEC SQL statements. I suggest updating the SQL precompiler and SQL processing so that they can be. This would remove the need for defining SQLTYPE(CLOB) in new programs, VARCHA...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Future consideration

Better behavior and error handling between Infoprint and SMTP

We've gone to great lengths to troubleshoot an email delivery issue in IBM Case TS015919455. When encountering a transient email delivery issue while using a 3rd party email relay server on the public internet (i.e. Microsoft 365), the IBM SMTP se...
9 months ago in IBM i / Print 2 Future consideration

DB2 for i GeoServer extension

We need to deliver geospatial data to the company via GeeoServer but we haven't found an extension that allows us to use DB2 for i as a datastore. There is a extension to DB2, but is for DB2 LUW and do not work with DB2 for i. (https://docs.geoser...
5 months ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 0 Submitted

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