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IBM i

Add signals keyword to declare that exceptions may be raised by RPG procedures

Summary RPGLE currently offers no syntactic or compiler-level mechanism to indicate that a procedure may raise an exception (*ESCAPE). Developers must either read the source of every invoked procedure (when available) or defensively wrap every cal...
13 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG Submitted

Make BOB included with annual support! IBM i developers are eager to utilize Bob but the cost makes it prohibitive.

Including Bob as a part of annual support will benefit the developers, the corporations who still utilize the IBM i platform and would like to continue using it and it would help IBM retain it's place in many companies. Many IBM i shops are strugg...
13 days ago in IBM i / AI with IBM i Submitted

Concistent and predicatable save and restore of Stored Procedures

We recently upgraded from 7.4 to 7.6. When upgrading, we restored our system full several months before our final transition. In the final move to the new server, we did saves and restores of changed libraries. In this process, Stored Procedures d...
13 days ago in IBM i / Core OS Submitted

The shipped value for *PUBLIC authority to the root is *RWX. WHY??????

IBM should reassess the default authority posture for the IBM i root directory, specifically where broad *RWX authority is allowed by default. From a modern security and resiliency perspective, this default creates unnecessary exposure and places ...
25 days ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers Submitted

Ability to limit which special characters are allowed or not allowed in a password.

Password changes performed through ACS is using Unicode. Because IBM i does not restrict special characters when QPWDRULES is active, users can select characters that are valid in Unicode but do not map consistently to the CCSID used on the IBM i....
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Security Submitted

Authority Collection data should include successful checks, even when the user is the OWNER of the object

I ran into a strange behavior when using authority collection. Scott Forstie was able to confirm that it's currently working "as coded". However, I think it should be changed. When a user profile successfully accesses an object, and that user prof...
2 months ago in IBM i / Security Submitted

IBM i: Add a new system value so we can enable to create automatically $HOME directory on User Profile creation

Today we use SSH, SFTP and VSCode more often than in the past, but when creating a new user profile the /home/USERID directory is not created. Please, add a new system value to enable automatic creation and select the $HOME base directory, in case...
5 months ago in IBM i / Security Under review

Enhancement for SELF: exclusion list

In production environments, running SELF with *ERROR monitoring enabled is highly valuable for identifying potential issues in SQL executed on production LPARs. However, a challenge arises when frequently occurring and well‑understood SQL errors—s...
4 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i Future consideration

Request for Missing Python 3.13 Packages in Open Source Package Management

We are upgrading the patches for the Open Source Package Management environment. However, we found that some of the required Python 3.13 packages are not available in the Open Source Package Management repository. For your reference, we have attac...
21 days ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 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
3 months ago in IBM i / Security Submitted

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