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IBM i

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Urgent support for Power HA System Mirror for IBM i of the new IBM Spectrum Virtualize function Policy-based HA (the new Hyperswap function)

With the last announcements of IBM storage, the IBM Spectrum Virtualize Software is enhanced with the new functions based on Policy-based HA (the new Hyperswap function). The PowerHA system mirror for i, today doesn't support this new function and...
9 months ago in IBM i / PowerHA 5 Submitted

Optimizing SEU Usage: Balancing System Administration Needs and Developer Progress

The justification for keeping SEU in the operating system is that system administrators need it to modify CL programs while in restricted state. However, maintaining SEU hinders developers from transitioning to modern, more efficient development t...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Application Development 2 Functionality already exists

Exit point QIBM_QPWFS_FILE_SERV should include the Netserver file share name

This exit point currently provides a lot of data about file server access, but this one key piece of information is missing (the share name). During security remediation, it would be invaluable to capture the name of the share that is being used, ...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 2 Submitted

Implement a %DTAARA built-in function in RPG IV

A %DTAARA built in function would be used to : When used as an lValue (left side of an =) Change the content of the data area. When used ias an rValue (right side of the = sign, or in compare opcodes) it returns the content of the data structure T...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 0 Submitted

Tools do assist with Spatial/GIS data on DB2 for i

When dealing with spatial data, it is quite common to use tools and/or products that assist in the manipulation and loading of this data. Even within the DB2 family (LUW and z/OS), there is the DB2 Spatial Extender which enables the import and man...
13 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 0 Submitted

DCM *SYSTEM store password in admin-cust.xml files

In the security configuration files from ADMIN application servers (ADMIN1, ADMIN3, ....) the *SYSTEM store password is weakly encoded with {xor} and is easy to obtain if you have access to admin-cust.xml file in /QIBM/UserData/OS/ADMININST/[admin...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Security 1 Future consideration

Allow for Synchronous Policy Based Replication (PBR) on IBM Storwize

With the recent version of IBM Storwize, metro mirror - synchronous replication - is no longer available for IBM i. This version allows for policy based replication (PBR) or policy based High-Availability (PBHA), both asynchronous. In order to get...
4 months ago in IBM i / Storage 4 Not under consideration

Moving load source concurrently

The idea is based on the ability to be able to copy (and thus move) the load source from one disk to another without the need for downtime. The operating system is already capable of initializing and moving data from one disk to another without do...
2 months ago in IBM i / Storage 2 Submitted

ILE COBOL: CRTCBLMOD MODULE(*PGMID) should avoid *MODULE object with invalid name

When compiling a ILE COBOL module (CRTCBLMOD) with parameter MODULE(*PGMID) the module name is taken from the PROGRAM-ID paragraph in the outermost ILE COBOL source program of the compilation unit. When the programmer had used "PGM NAM01" as PROGR...
8 days ago in IBM i / Languages - Other 0 Submitted

Support ISO 8601 Date-Time Format in VARCHAR_FORMAT and TIMESTAMP() patterns

This may be a dup of an 4 or 5 year old request, but please add native support for the ISO 8601 date-time format in Db2 for i. This includes: 1. Parsing and Formatting: Built-in SQL functions to convert between ISO 8601 and existing Db2 date/time ...
15 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 0 Submitted

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