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IBM i

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    Last Updated Date for Server Firmware

    Last server firmware upgrade date is not reflected when we use this command, DSPFMWSTS. However it is very beneficial to know when the last update/upgrade was performed by seeing this installation date next to the current level of firmware. We do ...
    8 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Under review

    Enhance Security of QUSEADPAUT system value and USEADPAUT in general

    This is similar in intent to https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/IBMI-I-4498 In support of 'deny by default' security principle, arrangements should be made to only generate programs and service programs with USEADPAUT(*YES), when A) explicitly requested ...
    6 months ago in IBM i / Security 2 Under review

    Start and stop the Syslog server on the IBM i

    Add the ability to start and stop the Syslog server on IBM i to the STRTCPSVR and ENDTCPSVR commands.Similarly, in Navigator for IBM i
    8 months ago in IBM i / Networking 3 Under review

    BRMS ICC backup to AWS Cloud only allows US East region for storing data

    Please see PMR Case number TS016529098. We are looking to use BRMS to send backup data to an S3 bucket at AWS. By default it is directing to AWS US East region and we are told there is no option to send data to another region. We faced issues with...
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 1 Under review

    Add *OUTPUT to WRKSMTPUSR

    Hi, After doing a STRIMPSMTP, we may need to do some change on each record to the list provided by WRKSMTPUSR. With thousend of records impossible to do that by hand. It would be usefull to get the same list in a PF to use ADDUSRSMTP or CHGUSRSMTP...
    3 months ago in IBM i / Networking 3 Under review

    Teach "Refactor | Rename to use file ALIAS" about variable scoping

    I had occasion to use this refactor function today and it surprised me. I have used it before with much success. I had a file declared globally that contained a field FIELD1 (we'll say). I also had an externally described data structure in a sub-p...
    2 months ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Under review

    Embedded SQL - SQLTYPE xLOB_FILE with CCSID

    Since release 7.2 variables in RPG can be defined with a CCSID. With embedded SQL it is possible to read from the IFS and writing into the IFS with (static) SQL SELECT-Statements just by specifying a xLOB_FILE. A xLOB_FILE must be defined in compo...
    4 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Under review

    Allow to define a data structure based on a SQL table function

    When declaring a data structure, allow using the keyword extname to read the fields defined in the RETURNS TABLE block of an UDF. dcl-ds genericDsTemplate extname('MYLIB/MY_SQL_TF':*output) qualified template alias end-ds; That would guaranty a 10...
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 2 Under review

    IBM Cloud CLI option for IBM i

    It would be great to have an IBM Cloud CLI ported to IBM i. This would allow to run snapshots, exports or queries to the cloud billing without living IBM i LPAR. I can also imagine some kind of orchestration between on-premise and cloud LPARs.
    11 months ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 0 Under review

    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...
    7 months ago in IBM i / Security 1 Under review

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