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Advanced Job Scheduler - Increase job group size from 99 to 999 (# of jobs included in a group) (or at least more than 100)

We currently use a non-IBM job scheduler that frequently has over 100 jobs in the job grouping. We would like to use AJS to replace this product, but one of the limiting factors is only 99 jobs are allowed in a group.
12 days ago in IBM i / System Management 0 Submitted

Free Tier for IBM i (AS/400) to Support Education, Ecosystem Growth, and Promote IBM Cloud

Note: This proposal for IBM i addresses the exact same core issue of lacking a free tier for accessibility, education, and community growth as outlined for AIX in idea AIX-I-802: https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/AIX-I-802. Both platforms suffer from th...
2 months ago in IBM i / Core OS 1 Under review

SQL service to manage certificate store (import certificate to store)

Hello, I recently just been working on some certificates projects and I thought it would be a great use to have a SQL functionality to import certificate to a store. Furthermore It would be nice to have a possibility to assign or replace certifica...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / System Management 2 Submitted

Live Partition Mobility: Allow overrides of CPU and LPAR ID on target CEC

For hosted environments, moving a partition from P9 to P10, for example, is often not at CPU-for-CPU but at CPW-for-CPW (e.g. 15000 CPW = 1 CPU on a 9009-22a but not on a 9105-22a). And LPAR ID is automagically assigned.This is counter-productive,...
3 months ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 4 Submitted

ACS Spool File Download Options

Be able to include the USRDTA in the file name when downloading a spoolfile to your local computer. The user data can mean something and it would be nice to be able to include that as part of the PDF file name.
18 days ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 0 Submitted

Add Column of Configured Maximum number of jobs on Active Prestart Jobs

In the latest TRs, V7R4 TR11 in our case have been included some additional columns that also included the Peak in Use! It would be very usefull to also have an additional column with the configured Maximum number of jobs per PJ, so we could easil...
2 months ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 1 Functionality already exists

Custom SQLSTATE/MESSAGE for SIGNAL statement

Currently it is possible with the SIGNAL statement to return a custom SQLSTATE and message. DECLARE COUNTRY_NOT_FOUND CONDITION FOR SQLSTATE '02000'; DECLARE EXIT HANDLER FOR COUNTRY_NOT_FOUND SIGNAL SQLSTATE '75001' SET MESSAGE_TEXT = 'Country no...
3 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Future consideration

Support stcp on IBMi. I have used IBM system exclusivily for 50 years. I have to use a Linux partition to access stcp now.

Most other platforms support stcp "Stream Transmission Control Protocol" I don't understand why you haven't already. Diameter/internet gateway communitcations from the QOS Gx servers require stcp.
13 days ago in IBM i / Networking 0 Submitted

Add a field in the SYSTEM_STATUS* SQL services that shows the whether the LPARs Attention LED is on or off.

In the current services:SYSTEM_STATUS view, SYSTEM_STATUS_INFO view and SYSTEM_STATUS table function. The ATTENTION_LIGHT light column only shows whether the SRC panel has a SRC in it. The manuals were recently updated to reflect the correct defin...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Future consideration

Enhance IBM SQL Services to use better "list" parameter parsing

I’d like to request an enhancement to IBM i SQL Services to improve flexibility when passing multiple values to parameters that accept lists. Currently, the following syntax does not work: table(qsys2.active_job_info(subsystem_list_filter=>'QIN...
3 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 4 Future consideration