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IBM i

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    Provide an API to extract the DSPPGMREF information

    There currently is no API to get the output of DSPPFMREF which makes extracting and development of tools cumbersome. There's *OUTFILE support but this is not flexible enough as it requires an intermediate step that complicates things like building...
    about 2 months ago in IBM i / Application Development 2 Submitted

    Provide an up to date version of ICU - International Components for Unicode (5770SS1 - Option 39)

    Having to deal more and more with Unicode and some applications that are still restricted to EBCDIC codepages, I was looking at the ICU library but found out that the most recent version on IBM is 4.0 which dates from 2009 (more as 15 years old) ?...
    8 months ago in IBM i / Core OS 1 Submitted

    Enhance(fix) the QLZARCAPI API so the messages returned are consistent.

    Currently there are 3 messages(CPF9897) returned for an LPAR that is part of other LPARs on a frame. SYSTEM INFO, PARTITION INFO, and PROCESSOR POOL INFO Of these, the second stanza "PARTITION INFO" is not terminated by a period. I have been worki...
    9 days ago in IBM i / Core OS 0 Submitted

    Pendant to SND-MSG to retrieve the error message text

    Being mainly a C# developer, it seams for me completely absurd that in RPG when you send an escape message with the SND-MSG function, you don't have a built in function to retrieve the error message text! Instead of having each developer/company t...
    3 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 2 Submitted

    VARDIM for RPGLE

    Quick explanation. VARDIM is to DIM what VARCHAR is to CHAR. Background Interfacing with RPG complex structures can be done, however the implementations are not homogeneous. Examples. In IWS you need a pseudo variable suffixed by the array name ...
    2 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 0 Submitted

    Firmware level and PTF Group Currency on "About" page- IBM Navigator for i

    My understanding is that Navigator for i get's it's info about the system through SQL. I am also aware of a SYSTOOL to show PTF group currency. My suggestion is to combine these two features, and include the PTF Group Currency on the "About" page ...
    about 2 months ago in IBM i / System Management 0 Submitted

    Provide a POST /security/dcm/appdef/add to the RSE APIs (HTTP ADMIN5)

    I have written an application to automate the Let's Encrypt process for issuing and renewing certificates. It would be very useful to have this as I don't believe that there is an API or any other method for automation.
    29 days ago in IBM i / Security 0 Submitted

    QM Profile Management: CRTUSRPRF automatically creates QM Profile with *SELECT as Allowed SQL-Statement per Default

    Hi all if you create a userprofile, the CRTUSRPRF - command automatically creates a Query Manager Profile with (as default) *SELECT as Allowed SQL Statement. There is no way to inhibit creation or change any defaults. Also there is no command / AP...
    11 days ago in IBM i / Other 0 Submitted

    Built in function to subset an array using a procedure to filter

    Create a new built in function to subset an array using a procedure to filter. Similar to the %SUBARR function, but allow a procedure to be specified to determine if the array entry should be included in the result. Something like ... dcl-ds array...
    3 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 2 Submitted

    Do not re-create QSECEXP1 job schedule when changing profile expiration date

    Hi IBM team, When changing the date in the USREXPDATE of the CHGUSRPRF command, the QSECEXP1 job schedule is re-created even if it already exists. Also, the description disapears and the 'Scheduled by' is changed with the profile that did the chan...
    12 days ago in IBM i / System Management 0 Submitted

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