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DB2 Web Query - Allow "Edit in Text Editor" feature to be used by non-admin

Allow the security regarding the ability to edit reports and other web query objects in text editor to be granted to web query developers. Currently this is only available to the web query admin. In order to solve certain issues that occur from ti...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Db2 Web Query 2 Not under consideration

Option to Automatically do UPDPGM to update signature related to Service Program

Currently when a procedure is added/removed or changed order within a Service Program, the signature changes, and all programs that relate to the Service Program need to do UPDPGM. If not, the program fails. There are some tricks to go around, tri...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 4 Not under consideration

Provide a QteRetrieveModuleViews API that works when NOT in Debug Mode

No APIs return the DBGVIEW(*LIST | *SOURCE | *ALL | *NONE | *STMT) attribute for programs or embedded *MODULEs except QteRetrieveModuleViews. However it, like all Qte* API are enabled only while the job is in Debug Mode. Please provide this inform...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Application Development 2 Future consideration

BRMS deleted objects

BRMS recovery report (STRRCYBRM ACTION(*REPORT)) and restoration should exclude deleted objects at the point of backup. Logic can be implemented at time of Incremental backup of a library. If an object doesn't exist in that library at that point i...
about 4 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 2 Not under consideration

Show active NWSD jobs that have an NWSSTG space in an IASP under the WRKASPJOB command

If an active Network Server Description (NWSD) has a linked Network Server Storage space (NWSSTG) in an available IASP, attempting to vary off the IASP or perform a PowerHA switch will fail with CPAB8E6 'device xxx cannot be varied off at this tim...
about 4 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 2 Is a defect

Bring Eclipse CHE 7.0 to IBM i

Eclipse Che as a zero-install development environment that runs in a browser, Eclipse Che makes it easy for someone to join your team and contribute to a project. https://che.eclipse.org/eclipse-che-7-is-coming-and-its-really-hot-1-4-64d79b75ca02 ...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 2 Not under consideration

PowerVC : Add support for discovery of KVM deployed VMs when adding host

PowerVC KVM host support is greenfield only, Customers may have existing KVM VMs deployed or may need to recovery a KVM host that had a spectrum scale cluster failure. without option to add a KVM and discover existing VMs, product is limited
over 5 years ago in PowerVC 1 Not under consideration

Increase the number of LP's for an LV dynamically when CHFS is executed.

When I want to add space to a file system and the LV doesn't have enough LP's defined I have to manually go increase the max number of LP's for that LV. I have to guess at how many LP's I need or do some math. I usually end up tossing some large n...
over 1 year ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

Service Program re-bind to open files in DFTACTGRP

If a Service Program procedure opens a file in the Default Activation Group and it's later closed with RCLRSC from a calling program, the service program isn't made aware of this and it still has a reference to the "now unknown" space. When it tri...
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 3 Not under consideration

Journal entry needed when statistics removed from file

During upgrade from 7.2 to 7.3 we got serious performance degradation for some SQL queries. Trying to improve performance we request and remove some file statistics on the source (production) system. It help for some issues. Unfortunately on the t...
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Not under consideration