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IBM i

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    Tcp server certificate hot reload

    A few days ago I read an article reporting the future intention to go to decrease the duration of certificates, it would be important to make sure that the application of such certificates would not require the shutdown and subsequent activation o...
    5 months ago in IBM i / Security 4 Under review

    Improved behavior of IBM i when bad sectors of external storage occur

    There was an incident that bad blocks on an external storage connected to an IBM i partition resulted in recursive SRC A6xx0266 for hours and performance of the IBM i partition significantly slowed down. It was hard for the customer to determine w...
    over 6 years ago in IBM i / Storage 2 Is a defect

    5733-ICC API to delete a no longer needed directory

    There are cloud APIs to copy to, copy from cloud as well as one to remove a file from cloud. However if you file has a directory structure there is no way to remove any of those directories.
    4 months ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 2 Submitted

    Change the performance adjuster algorithm

    The performance adjuster algorithm looks only if the pool is paging but doesn't care if it has already free memory. This causes sometimes that a pool start stealing a lot of memory without using it. The algorithm should look at the unallocated mem...
    over 6 years ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 4 Future consideration

    Allow more than 1 level of qualified datastructures in SQLRPGLE

    We get more and more embedded SQL code in our RPGLE sources but the compiler still only supports 1 level of qualified data structures. This is such a pain. See Use case for example. More practical examples are joins where you want to use the exter...
    over 5 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 6 Future consideration

    Create a service for RMTOUTQs or *LAN Printer Device Descriptions

    Ref IBM Doc ID 640063 https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/getting-list-all-tcpip-addresses-used-rmtoutqs-or-lan-printer-device-descriptions Getting a List of All TCP/IP Addresses Used in RMTOUTQs or *LAN Printer Device Descriptions Is there a servic...
    about 1 year ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 5 Future consideration

    Create a web based full functioning 5250 Emulator

    I need the ability to create a web based full functioning 5250 Emulator comparable to the ACs Java 5250 emulator
    11 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

    Compiler may notice a missing Ctl-Opt Main() keyword

    When the main() keyword in RPG is missing the compiler assumes RPG cycle logic, even if there is not a single C-spec outside a procedure available and all F-specs are coded with UsrOpn. When you call the program it runs at _QRNP_PEP_... and does n...
    about 1 year ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 1 Future consideration

    IBM i Services for the Advanced Job Scheduler (AJS)

    IBM i is moving into the direction of adding SQL service to nealry every part of the operating system, except for the Advanced Job Scheduler. To my knowledge there are none. Since the license simplification the use of the Advanced Job Scheduler is...
    about 1 year ago in IBM i / System Management 3 Future consideration

    Provide capability to restrict use of Global Variables in Subprocedures

    Provide a capability to restrict access to global variables from local subprocedures. This could be done by adding a keyword to the dcl-proc specification that lists the global variables permitted for a given subprocedure. For example: dcl-proc My...
    about 9 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 18 Future consideration

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