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PASE port for RCLONE

Please, port RCLONE an publish on YUM repository.Rclone is a command line program to sync files and directories to and from: Use Case: We could perform some simple backups and colaborate using lots of cloud providers, including IBM Cloud Object St...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 2 Not under consideration

Hotspots to URLs have stopped working in Access Client Solutions version 1.1.7.2

In Access Client Solutions version 1.1.7.2 hotspots to URLs have stopped working. I have a string "FILE://myServer/myPath/myFile.PDF" and it is shown as an URL. When I click on it it says that the path does not exist. We have tested the same in Ac...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

Qshell df command is "slow" on detect disk space changes

df command under qshell shows a NOT updated percentage of used disk space if the disk space grows fast of get lower . It looks that the df commands "reads" a value that is updated every xx minutes ( maybe 20-30 mins) and it's NOT the current used ...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 1 Future consideration

Revisit, enhance and reduce redundancy in earlier SQL Services VIEWS that utilize OBJECT_STATISTICS

Some early SQL Services, such as MSGQ_INFO and MSGF_DATA use a 2-phase OBJECT_STATISTICS instance to build the list of objects they're using or returning. See additional details for example. Today, the OBJECT_STATISTICS includes the system library...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Not under consideration

KSH93 with AIX 7.1

For clarity, I would like to point out that: - We have modified our “failing” script and thus resolved the immediate operational problem, but we would like to avoid surprises in the future. - The change in ksh93 version is not so recent, only our ...
over 5 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

STRDBG should build the QGPL/QTESxxxxxx *DTAQ with appropriate authority for job QTESDBGHUB to access it.

When STRDBG is run interactively, it creates a data queue QGPL/QTESxxxxxx to communicate with the QTESDBGHUB job (the server process for the graphical debugger). This is created with the current job user as the owner, and *PUBLIC is granted the de...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 1 Future consideration

Let's Encrypt support for HMC

Add Let's Encrypt integration to HMC code to automate the security certificate management on these appliances. For clarity, more details about Let's Encrypt athttps://letsencrypt.org/about/
over 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

ALTER SEQUENCE: ALLOW SUBSELECT

It would helpful to use an expression like a subselect with DDL, such as: alter sequence XYZ.SEQ1 restart with (select max(ID) + 1from XYZ.TAB1) Use Case: It is common to add rows to a table. If one of the columns is not an identity column but ins...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Future consideration

Strip current line highlight from copy

When selecting source code from the LPEX editor, and then pasting that selection in certain applications such as Outlook or Word, the current line highlight is copied as well, and ends up being a dark blue background on the last line of the pasted...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Not under consideration

Json datatype create table

The idea would be to create a json datatype as happens in other dbms. This allows you to create fields in json type files (and not blobs as suggested in some documentation) while also verifying their actual validity.
about 1 year ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Not under consideration

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