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provide a command or an API to change certificate store password

Properly managing SSL/TLS certificates become more and more important. Specifically all the certificates and certificates authorities which are stored in the *SYSTEM certificate store.This certificate store is protected by a password, that can be ...
about 4 years ago in IBM i / Security 3 Delivered

RDi: Error list does not position to correct source line if any source lines have been added or deleted

System: RDi for RPGActor: User needing defective feature to be fixed RDi currently provides the ability to quickly position to compiler errors by double-clicking the error in the Error List. Issue: If you modify your source code by adding or delet...
almost 9 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Delivered

Add USRDFNDTA to OUTPUT_QUEUE_ENTRIES

In our ERP different informations are stored within the USRDFNDTA each spooled file. Like Mailaccount, Address and so on.Now i want to add some new feutures and at that point i would need the field USRDFNDTA in the SQL UDTF OUTPUT_QUEUE_ENTRIES. U...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Delivered

DISPLAY_JOURNAL UDTF enhancement request

DISPLAY_JOURNAL UDTF currently accepts library and object as parameters and also if object name is not specified, it defaults to "ALL" for the library. We would like to request for an enhancement where this UDTF can accept a list of objects as par...
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Delivered

Add TGTRLS on RUNSQLSTM OUTPUT(*LIST) Report

When creating a UDF or UDTF (SQL Function) using the RUNSQLSTM CL command, the resulting Output "Compiler Listing" does NOT including the TGTRLS (Target release) specified on the RUNSQLSTM command. The "current" VxRyMz does appear in the title of ...
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Delivered

commit & rollback in Toolbox ribbon in Run SQL script

It would be great if Run Sql Script could have two new buttons - "commit" and "rollback" in Toolbox ribbon. if these two could be available only when applicable -> if isolation level in opened JDBC connection = '*NONE' THEN "greyed out" else "a...
about 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 6 Delivered

Monitor for Hardware Key expiration

We are trying to extract the firmware status to allow tracking of expired keys. There are some commands which will extract the key information (DSPFMWSTS) but no associated API's that we can find. We looked at monitoring for the messages when the ...
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 6 Delivered

User profile maintenance function

Can we have a function that we can maintain user profiles using SQL. For example: call systools.update_user_profiles(profile = > 'MARINATEST', enabled = > '*YES', password => 'Testing@@123' ) Or I can just disable the profile. call systoo...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Delivered

DSPSYSSTS ASTLVL(*BASIC) : Show "system storage" in GB or TB.

DSPSYSSTS ASTLVL(*BASIC)Disk spaces have grown so large that reporting in MB is no longer feasable. DSPSYSSTS ASTLVL(*BASIC)Disk space: System storage (in 1,000,000 bytes) . . . . . . . . . . : +++++++ System storage used . . . . . . . . . . . . ....
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 2 Delivered

Change user of Integrated Webservice Server

Currently it is not possible to change the user of the webservices server without deleting, recreating and redeploying all services. Please extend the setWebServicesServerProperties.sh script with a -user parameter so that QWSERVICE (or any other ...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 3 Delivered