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IBM i

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    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

    Modern Look for IBM Navigator for i Using IBM’s Carbon Design System

    Updating the IBM Navigator for i interface by implementing the Carbon Design System (https://carbondesignsystem.com/)— IBM’s open-source design system built on the IBM Design Language. Carbon provides production-ready code, design tools, UX guidel...
    9 months ago in IBM i / System Management 1 Not under consideration

    Allow COALESCE to provide automatic CAST

    I have this line in a CREATE VIEW statement: coalesce(va.vaaddress1, '?Unknown') as vaaddress1, When the view is accessed using SQL embedded in ILEPRPG, the SQLSTATE becomes 01004. VAADDRESS1 is defined in a SQL TABLE as CHAR(40). It would save a ...
    9 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Not under consideration

    Locking objects on both systems in an Active-Passive environment - Db2 Mirror

    Currently, locks are replicated in an Active-Passive Db2 Mirror environment. Is it necessary to lock objects or replicate locks exclusively or at the record level in the passive environment? If locking could be avoided in the "PASSIVE" environment...
    9 months ago in IBM i / Db2 Mirror 0 Future consideration

    Enterprise Extender should be able to utilize a proxy and FQDN for connections.

    Enterprise Extender should be able to utilize a proxy and FQDN for connections.
    9 months ago in IBM i / Application Development 0 Submitted

    Moving old data from production tables to historic tables in another library

    In an active production system such as we have being in a 24 hour service financial environment, we have an issue with old data that exists in many of our database tables. Every second new data is being recorded in this tables and old the old data...
    9 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Not under consideration

    IBM i ACS data upload type casting

    Hi, IBM i ACS is the replacment product for IBM i Access for windows. https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/633847 In Client Access for windows, it is possible to perform data download and data upload of a CCSID37 file that contains non CCSID 37 ...
    9 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

    Provide a smart LIKE keyword that works with any target type (vs LIKE and LIKEDS)

    Today when we write code, we use the LIKEDS (mostly) to declare a data structure "like" another. When a field is declared and should be "like" another existing field, we use the LIKE keyword. Please provide a new keyword that can be used in either...
    10 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 2 Not under consideration

    %elem on enum

    I would like to define the size of my dim array depending on the number of elements of my enum. Example : dcl-enum my_enum qualified; value1 const('1'); value2 const('2'); end-enum; dcl-s my_array char(1) dim(%elem(my_enum));
    10 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 1 Functionality already exists

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