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Pick up the workload group from the job description for a user profile when swapping in a prestart job

In an environment with a large number of service user profiles accessing the system for a large number of different applications, workload groups provide the ability to control CPU resources at different levels for different applications. The work...
5 days ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 0 Submitted

Provide Cursor Hover Row Highlighting in ACS RUNSQL resultSet

I would like to suggest an enhancement to improve data review and usability within result sets. When a result set is displayed in ACS RUNSQL, it would be highly beneficial to introduce a cursor hover highlight feature. This functionality would: 1....
5 days ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 0 Submitted

Add user to SEP parameter so we can target another users job with that SEP

With the recent release of SEP support for Merlin and VS Code, it seems that they made it just use the user you connected to the IBM i with. In my product, we rarely (dare I say never) want to set an SEP on our current user. We need to 'catch' the...
2 months ago in IBM i / Application Development 1 Submitted

Possibility to use generic message ID's on ON-EXCP section in MONITOR group

It would be very useful to have ability to use generic message ID's e.g CPF0000, CPF9800 in ON-EXCP op-code within MONITOR group. This should be similar to CL's MONMSG functionality in terms of generic message ID's monitoring.
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 0 Submitted

aclput -R --ignoredirectory -i mycl /dir

I need to apply an AIXC ACL to the thousands of files in a directory tree as quickly as possible. The aclput -R command seems usable, but it also applies the ACL to the subdirectories found in the tree. As the acl is defined with rw-rw---- permiss...
4 days ago in AIX 0 Submitted

Enhance the CPIAD09, CPIAD0B, and CPI3E34 messages to indicate whether the connection came in an a secure port or a non-secure port

The subject messages are all very similar and are logged to the history log when new connections are made to the system. These messages are very useful to understand the workload for connections to the system. However, there is no ability to deter...
18 days ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 1 Submitted

Add WHEN-IS-NOT clause to the new SELECT statement

The traditional SELECT/ENDSL allows when a=b and also allows when a <> b. However, the new SELECT/WHEN-IS/ENDSL does not allow a negative comparison, and forces me to go back to the older style. In this shop [and others I have worked in], th...
27 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 0 Submitted

HMC Central Patch Management for AIX, PowerVM, Firmware and Microcode

HMC should have a Patch Management: Central Patch Management for AIX, PowerVM, Firmware and Microcode. IBM should provide a easy way for Patch Management. System Firmware and Adapter microcode report in one tool (something Microcode Discovery tool...
8 months ago in Hardware Management Console 13 Planned for future release

Enable Virtual Serial Number (VSN) for Shared Processor Pool (SPP)

As currently defined, a Virtual Serial Number (VSN) can only be used once for a single LPAR, with cores fully assigned. This approach significantly limits flexibility. For example, consider a scenario with three LPARs, each assigned 0.4 cores. The...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 0 Submitted

RDi "BYOE" (Bring-Your-Own-Eclipse) Edition

The idea is, to have RDi as an BYOE (Bring-Your-Own-Eclipse) install, which can be integrated into any existing Eclipse installation (even under Linux). This way, RDi would open up to more developers, especially to developers running Eclipse on Li...
11 days ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 0 Submitted

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