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System list navigator

In a scenario of a company managing a significant amount of IBM i partitions it would be really important to have the ability to manage all those partitions via navigator. At the moment when a new system is defined one has to either manually enter...
9 months ago in IBM i / System Management 2 Future consideration

New function %lookupNE() to find the first element in an array not equal to the search argument

Many times I have to locate the first non-blank or non-zero element in an array. To search for it I either have to code a for/endfor or dow/enddo loop to scan for it. Sorting it is not an option. The sequence must be kept. So often it is something...
almost 3 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 1 Future consideration

SQL query to report on RGZPFM history with same details shown in table reorganzation panes

Provides historical details of table reorganizations that would benefit support and application users
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Future consideration

Trace usage of External SQL functions (linked to an external program) in OBJECT_STATISTICS or somewhere else

There is no IBMi object for External SQL Functions (linked to an external program). These functions are only knows and identified in DataBase level. It is impossible to know the last usage date for these functions. You can get the last usage date ...
about 2 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Functionality already exists

Provide ability to control SSL counters (in SST) from OS command line using an API

We are running v7r4 and find the SSL counters that are available within SST very useful. A challenge we face is that due to our a weekly system interruption for full system save and IPL, these counters are disabled and get reset. It would desirabl...
9 months ago in IBM i / Security 1 Under review

The customer should be able to access the transferred files directly on the support page in the event of a support case.

the customer should be able to access the transferred files directly on the support page. In the case of one client, several support staff can process the case. It would therefore be useful if these persons could access the transferred files direc...
over 1 year ago in AIX 0 Submitted

OS command WRKSMTPEMM to get read version (DSPSMTPEMM)

WRKSMTPEMM needs *ISYSCFG special authority - request a DSPSMTPEMM version that does not require the special authority Use Case: Many user now use SNDSMTOPEMM to send emails from Series i. The log from the command usage is found in WRKSMTPEMM. How...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / Networking 5 Not under consideration

DSPJRN IFS entries to ASCII

When displaying journal entries for IFS (type B) the ESD data in the journal is in ASCII, but the display is EBCDIC so the content when display via the interface is not readable. It would be far better to either convert the content to ASCII automa...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Not under consideration

SQL EXPORT command to create export streamfiles in e.g. CSV format

Wouldn't it be nice, if DB2 for i would provide an EXPORT statement, which would generate export streamfiles similar to CPYTOIMPF.e.g. something like EXPORT (SELECT HOST_NAME, PARTITION_ID, NUMBER_OF_PARTITIONS FROM QSYS2.SYSTEM_STATUS_INFO) TO '/...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Not under consideration

Ability to start and stop monitors in Navigator

I would like to have the ability so specify a start and stop date/time for monitors in i Access Client Solutions. Currently the only options are start and stop. Use Case: Customers running monitors may only be concerned about daytime process, not ...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / System Management 3 Future consideration

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