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IBM i

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Command or tool to find objects inside the IFS

It would be very helpful and useful to have a command or tool to search for objects in the IFS directory structure, by name, by date, by extension, and other criteria.Something like WRKOBJ OBJ(*ALL/P*) for example.
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 3 Not under consideration

Host Service Should Ignore Expired Certificates

Today I experienced that as long as an expired certificate exists, the associated services on power i (e.g. login, database, ddm) do not work and deny access despite the fact there is another certificate that is active on the same services. By del...
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / Security 2 Future consideration

BRMS : RMVMEDIBRM - 68/5000 create a parameter to have the choice of a specific library

objective: to be able to select a single library Remove BRM support info (RMVMEDIBRM)                           ...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 3 Not under consideration

ARE sync PTF Coverletters when available

Always sync PTF coverletters when doing a PTF sync with ARE Use Case: When doing a PTF sync from an image catalog with PTF iso images PTF coverletters are transferred to the target system from the CS. When instead of an image catalog PTF savefiles...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / System Management 4 Future consideration

Alias name for Indicators KA-KY

Provide an alias RPG RESERVED NAME for Indicators KA-KY. Suggested alias names: *INFK01-*INFK24*F01-*F24 Use Case: Indicators KA-KY are more simple to communicate with the DDS Dispaly,since it does not use up indicatore 01-99. But the problem with...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 4 Not under consideration

Solution to input Chinese character in Win 10 to Power System I

Due to the limitation of IBM emulator as Client Access (PC, i Access for Web, ACS) running in Win 10 (which provide only Unicode Chinese Input Method), we cannot input those chinese character that contains more than 2 bytes through those Client Ac...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

Option to disable automatic selection of Restrict search to selection

A previous RFE requested that RDi find text work like standard Eclipse find text. Part of that was the automatic selection of the "Restrict search to selection" checkbox if you have lines selected in the editor. I would like to disable that option...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Not under consideration

Allow PTF Groups to be ordered using deltas

We have developed a tool that can compare the PTF Group levels installed on a system and those available from IBM. When we see a difference between the group levels we use SNDPTFORD to order the PTF's directly to an Image Catalog ready for install...
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 1 Functionality already exists

BRMS Track changed objects since last save VS scan

We have a customer with 18 million objects in the IFS- the customer does incremental saves for the IFS and they still run 30+ hours on LTO6. On a daily basis- very little data changes, but the system scans the entire IFS to find the objects that a...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 6 Not under consideration

support for Field Procedure for Date fields with default value Current date

Currently field procedure cannot be applied to DATE type fields with default value ‘Current date' I would like to know if there is any way to remove this limitation. Use Case: Field Procedure
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Not under consideration