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new build in function %PASSEDVALUE

In procedures with optional parameters, the %PASSED-BIF can be used to check whether the parameters are passed. To use such a parameter, a local field must be defined and the value must be set in the local field when the parameter is passed, other...
30 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 1 Submitted

I'm using the audit data mart in web Navigator, please add an option to schedule the "refresh" job when the journal receiver gets changed.

currently we can have an advanced job scheduler job added to run at a specific time. This is great but allows for the possibility of missing journal receiver entries. I would like to add the option to run the audit journal data mart process when t...
11 days ago in IBM i / Core OS 0 Submitted

Feature Request – Support for Parameter Substitution in RSEAPI_SQLRequest

I would like to suggest an enhancement to the RSEAPI_SQLRequest structure used in the RSE API for SQL execution. Currently, the API only supports static SQL statements via the sqlStatement field, without the ability to bind input or output paramet...
11 days ago in IBM i / Other 0 Submitted

Extend threshold monitoring and alerting for memory usage

The settings in the cmc for pep2.0 allow the user to set individual thresholds for core usage in a particular cpu pool. However, there is no such setting to notify about overusage of memory. Extending the pool thresholds for memory usage would hel...
6 months ago in Cloud Management Console 1 Submitted

go directly in Virtual Fibre Channel instead of Virtual SCSI tab when going on LPAR Virtual Storage

When clicking on the LPAR, then virtual storage, the first tab virtual scsi is automatically selected. In the majority of cases, we would rather use virtual storage channel tab first. Can you change default to be virtual storage channel? or create...
about 1 month ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

Add IncludeGroup for use RSEAPI

Recently, to use the RSE API, we have the options "adminUsers", "includeUsers", or "excludeUsers". When we want to add a new user, we need to modify the file located at /QIBM/UserData/OS/RSEAPI/rseapi.properties, and then restart the ADMIN5 server...
12 days ago in IBM i / Other 0 Submitted

%SCANRPL to replace only *FIRST (or *LAST) occurence

%SCANRPL is a nice and usefull function but sometimes we need to limit the replacement to the first or the last occurence. Of course we can code around it using %scan but nowadays UTF strings are more complicated so the code itself can became frag...
30 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 2 Submitted

Quick Enable/Disable user profiles

This would be a quick function for admins/support personnel to use to enable/disable an account without invoking CHGUSRPRF or Option 2 STATUS(*DISABLED). Create an Option 27 and 28 to Enable/Disable user profile from the WRKUSRPRF screen.
13 days ago in IBM i / Core OS 0 Submitted

lpardbg - Add data collection for LPARS running AIX

lpardbg is a great new feature to collect snap-data from VIOS via HMC, but it would be nice to be able to collect data from LPARS with AIX as OS as well. Documentation of lpardbg: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/power10?topic=commands-lpardbg
9 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 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,...
4 months ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 4 Submitted