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Change QMHRCVM, QGYOLMSG and MESSAGE_QUEUE_INFO to return the same severity for immediate messages

Today the QMHRCVM API returns 0 (zero) for messages send by the SNDMSG command, whereas DSPMSG, the QGYOLMSG API and the MESSAGE_QUEUE_INFO SQL table function return 80. That is confusing, for example when using both APIs. From the documentation o...
almost 3 years ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 2 Not under consideration

Document Display_Journal_Entry_Info

Found this undocumented feature Display_Journal_Entry_InfoI'd like it documented and supported. Use Case: Bust apart the journal entry data.
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Not under consideration

Lock CMNxx from having multiple IPs assigned

We have a customer system that we will be hosting at our data center and we would like to be able to block the CMN03 port which is used as the a LAN Console port from being changed to allow anything else to use it.
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Networking 3 Future consideration

IBM i tape virtualization for TS3500

IBM i 7.4 TR2 added tape library virtualization from host to client partitions. This works VERY WELL with out TS4300 tape libraries. We are looking at migrating to a VTL solution, and that solution presents as a TS3500 tape library. Can support fo...
almost 3 years ago in IBM i / Hardware 6 Future consideration

PowerVC should support use of IPG for accessing Tape/VTL devices in a multi fabric environment (more than 2)

It is widely accepted that mixing of tape and disk via same FC/vFC adapaters is not recommended. Current IPG implementation only supports Tape without using IPG. It will be very useful for to provide IPG support for Tape and preferrably on separat...
over 1 year ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Add a new device web

It will be great to replace the workstation green screen with a device in a web navegator. Instead of DDS it can use an "HTML mask".
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 1 Not under consideration

Add checkbox for "replace" when saving newly updated example

if I update an "example" i previously created, I cannot save as a new example since it already exists. A replace check box would allow us to save an updated copy. i currently have to use <file><open> the example and then edit and resav...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Future consideration

Allow for MONMSG MSGID(*ALL)

It is not possible to create a program that monitors for all messages. Examples of CL programs that want to do this are Unit Testing Frameworks, Event Dispatching frameworks, etc.. Often it is not possible to know what messages return from a comma...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Languages - CL (Control Language) 3 Future consideration

Syntax Highlighting (and Outline) in Compare View

When the compare view will allow merging as requested in RFE 70905 it should also enable syntax highlighting and accessing the outline, so you can work with the code like it was opened using the "compare" action in good old CODE/400. (Please consi...
about 9 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Not under consideration

Port IBM NoSQL Wire Listener for DB2 to IBM i

With the IBM NoSQL Wire Listener for DB2 it is possible to use existing Applications that use MongoDB as their Database together with DB2 without changing the App.It runs on all Versions of DB2 except the DB2 for i. Details are here:https://www.ib...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Not under consideration