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Program References Enhancement

I would like to be able to see the Procedure Names a Program or Service Program require. I have a service program with 5 procedures defined in it. I can get a list of those procedures using DSPSRVPGM with DETAIL(*PROCEXP). This service program is ...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Application Development 3 Not under consideration

Email all self-service users / Add custom email templates and rules

PowerVC has a built-in email functionality for requests/expiration notices. Enhancing the product with the ability to send notices to all users and users by project (maintenance notices / security bulletins / reminders) via the built-in "donotrepl...
about 6 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Add user defined fields to user profiles

Adding a few user defined fields to users profiles would allow customers to directly attach useful information to user profiles. I suggest five 10 character fields. having one field long enough to store an email address would also be very helpful....
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Security 4 Not under consideration

More than one statement per line

It would be nice to be able to put more than one statement per line in free format separated by the Semicolon. If X = 1; X=2; Else; X=3; EndIf; Would be an easy solution without changing the whole language to be similar to what other languages com...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 4 Not under consideration

Remove all references to SAVSTG from documentation for IBM i 7.2 on up.

SAVSTG hasn't been supported as of IBM i 7.2 as per https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.2?topic=ios-save-storage-savstg-command-restore-storage-process-are-no-longer-provided However it is still referenced multiple times in current documentation. Simp...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Documentation 0 Submitted

Hold PowerHA Resource Group w/ node that had it last

After experiencing a loss of both 10Gb links between data centers in a stretched cluster, the primary node that held the resource group rebooted 4 times thinking the secondary node had acquired the RG. Heartbeat was lost on the repository disk. Se...
about 6 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Not under consideration

AIX server time zone is EST5EDT. Need to transfer AIX Syslog entries to remote syslog server in UTC timezone format.

AIX server time zone is EST5EDT. Need to transfer AIX Syslog entries to remote syslog server in UTC timezone format. This is a priority request from InfoSec team. We have found solution for LINUX server whereas on AIX server as per "TS003340201" w...
over 4 years ago in AIX 11 Future consideration

Display the content of global variables

When using global variables in (noMain) modules included in either programs or service programs, it is currently not possible to view the content of these global variables when debugging the (service) programs. Use Case: This new feature will help...
over 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Not under consideration

V7R3 to V7R5 Cross-reference PTF .csv

Can IBM provide the V7R3 to V7R5 cross-reference PTF list in a .csv format, similar to what's available for V7R4 to V7R5? To my knowledge, the V7R3 to V7R5 cross-reference list is currently only available in .pdf.
over 1 year ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 2 Functionality already exists

Add AFP Manager function to Navigator for i web User interface

Currently, IBM i Access for Windows i Navigator has "AFP Manager" function". This allows customer to import AFP resources from other platforms/tools in BINARY format. However, There is not equivalent function on Navigator for i web User interface....
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / System Management 1 Not under consideration

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