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IBM i

Enhancement Request for Root CA Renew Procedure

we would appreciate it if you could advise if IBM has plans to release a new technote covering the step-by-step root CA renewal procedure for reference. Or from DCM, add some technote for renewing root CA. like not allowing the same root CA occurr...
26 days ago in IBM i / Security Submitted

SMB 3.1.1 support needed in V7.5

Security: CIS Benchmark for Windows 11 (CIS Microsoft Windows 11 Enterprise Benchmark v4.0.0) requires SMB version 3.1.1. Enforcement of this benchmark is a customer requirement
2 months ago in IBM i / Security Submitted

Context-Aware “Next Action” Guidance for Job Outcomes (No Additional Messages or Alerts)

Business Justification The IBM i platform already captures comprehensive job information, including job status, job logs, and spool files. However, users must rely on experience and manual navigation to determine the appropriate next step after a ...
2 months ago in IBM i / Other Submitted

Provide an up to date version of ICU - International Components for Unicode (5770SS1 - Option 39)

Having to deal more and more with Unicode and some applications that are still restricted to EBCDIC codepages, I was looking at the ICU library but found out that the most recent version on IBM is 4.0 which dates from 2009 (more as 15 years old) ?...
about 1 year ago in IBM i / Core OS Submitted

IFS and folders properties

When handling IFS, when an object's properties are requested, all are returned very quickly except the size and number of objects and folders. The size and number of objects are updated fairly quickly, but if the folder contains a large number of ...
28 days ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family Submitted

CPYTOSTMF - Add a parameter allowing you to choose whether to propagate attributes (audit) when copying objects to QSYS and the ifs

The behaviour of the CPYTOSTMF command can lead to uncontrolled results depending on the historical files and their configuration in the QSYS section when copying to the ifs. By default, attributes such as audit are necessarily propagated identica...
6 months ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers Submitted

ACS Run SQL Scripts - Add capability to customize colors

I cannot see the light green that is used for comments. It would be nice to have the capability to specify the color for the various parts in the editor.
3 months ago in IBM i / Application Development Submitted

Have the ability to change the ownership of several owned objects at once in Navigator

I have a user, RETIREE. He retired. I go into IBM Navigator for i. I find the user. Look up his owned directory objects. Highlight several. Permissions is greyed out if I select more than one and there's no other way, here, to change the ownership.
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Security Submitted

Add a message after the CPI3E34 when routing work to a different subsystem by user profile

When routing work by user profile for the host servers, there is a CPIAD09 message sent that the user connected to the system, followed by CPIAD0C that the work was transferred to a target subsystem (7.5). On 7.4 and earlier, there are two CPIAD09...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging Submitted

Create a "Code for IBM i" Extension for JetBrains PyCharm (similar to the one for Visual Studio Code)

Currently, the "Code for IBM i" extension is available for Visual Studio Code, enabling developers working on IBM i to benefit from a modern and integrated development environment. However, many developers also use JetBrains PyCharm for their proj...
8 months ago in IBM i / Application Development Submitted

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