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IBM i

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    Ability to specify objects to OMIT/Ignore from the admin domain

    While the administrative domain offers the ability to manually add resources into it, and provides capabilities such as ADDCADMRE that has wildcards and omits, one of the powerful features of the administrative domain are the automation policies: ...
    9 months ago in IBM i / PowerHA 0 Submitted

    Restrict Powerdown system command to run from Interactive environment

    The PWRDWNSYS command is utilized within the environment to either shut down or restart the partition as necessary. This process is overseen by the technicians responsible for maintaining the platform. However, I have observed a potential security...
    9 months ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 3 Not under consideration

    Add *DEVD with Attribute "DSPVRT" to the Admin Domain

    At our customers we configure the authorities of objects of type "*DEVD/DSPVRT" to ensure that only authorized users can use a workstation. Because of that when we do a SWITCH we need to have the *DEVD's in the other LPAR with the same authority. ...
    9 months ago in IBM i / PowerHA 0 Submitted

    Printer writer job is unable to recover after a preprocessed spool file is deleted unexpectedly

    I observed that our writer job occasionally encounters the CPF6DF5 error after a temporary spool file is deleted in the output queue during preprocessing according to IBM Support. When this error occurs, all subsequent spools entering the queue ar...
    9 months ago in IBM i / Print 1 Future consideration

    RACF should support dynamic altering the RACF database configuration

    Currently, the names of the RACF databases are defined in the SYS1.PARMLIB(IRRPRM00) parmlib member. Those dataset names become constant for the IPL. They can not be changed without SYSPLEX-wide IPLs which would cause the customer massive outages ...
    9 months ago in IBM i / Security 1 Not under consideration

    Authority Collection - Size of the collections

    Please add options/columns into existing SQL views (object_statistics maybe?) or add new SQL views to see how much the IBM i Authority Collection repositories actually take space. Currently there is no such option and the security administrator/IB...
    9 months ago in IBM i / Security 2 Future consideration

    Request for 「No conversion」 Data Transfer Support in ACS Data Transfer

    In PCOMM and IBM i Access for Windows data transfers, it was possible to specify "No conversion" as the file type. However, ACS does not support unconverted transfers.Could you please consider adding support for unconverted transfers in ACS as a f...
    9 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 5 Not under consideration

    Add OPEN *ALL to RPG to open all files not already open.

    Files defined as USROPN or already closed must be opened manually and individually and code must make sure each file is not already open. OPEN *ALL would be the complement to CLOSE *ALL.
    9 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 2 Future consideration

    add a field in QSYS2.LICENSE_INFO that shows the "P- group" for the listed licensed program product.

    There currently exists a field "PROCESSOR_GROUP" in the SQL view QSYS2.LICENSE_INFO, which is the processor group for the server the software is currently installed. the new field should more closely align with the column "PROCESSOR" in the output...
    9 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Future consideration

    Add IMPORTANCE parameter to SNDSMTPEMM and API QtmsCreateSendEmail

    On the old e-mail command SNDDST there was an option to change the content importance of the e-mail. It will add "Importance" to the mail header. Please add this parameter to the command SNDSMTPEMM and API QtmsCreateSendEmail.
    9 months ago in IBM i / Networking 2 Future consideration

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