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IBM i

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    Authority *SECADM and *ALLOBJ needed with RST command

    Restoring Ifs objects using RST puts in the joblog a CPDA088 and a CPF9898 for each object restored. The messages text is: "THE OBJECT IDENTIFIED BY THE PRECEDING CPDA088 MESSAGE WAS RESTORED, BUT THE *RUNEXIT AND/OR *CRTRUNEXIT ATTRIBUTES WERE NO...
    11 months ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 1 Under review

    Cloud Storage Solutions for i 5733ICC - Multi-threaded downloads

    I've configured the mutil-threaded uploads for this product and it made a significant improvement to the upload times. It would be beneficial to be able to do this for the downloads.
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 4 Under review

    Allow finer grained 'Adopt Authority'

    This idea will allow ISVs and other to help close security exposures related to programs that adopt authority. Currently a program can be set to USRPRF(*OWNER) to have it adopt authority. Different programs within an application have needs for acc...
    6 months ago in IBM i / Security 1 Under review

    IBM Navigator for i - Function Usage ID to allow only management of EIM users

    Our helpdesk staff manage the creation and deletion of users and password resets, however I can't grant them access to Navigator for i to manage EIM user entries for SSO as it gives them far too much access. Please provide a Function Usage ID whic...
    11 months ago in IBM i / System Management 2 Under review

    UID for IBM i Digital Certificate Manager

    I would like to bring to your attention a potential enhancement opportunity concerning the IBM i Digital Certificate Manager (DCM). During the process of Certificate Signing Request (CSR) creation, we have observed that there is no available field...
    6 months ago in IBM i / Security 2 Under review

    Enable F4 on the remove image catalogue entry so KEEP can be set to *YES

    While the RMVIMGCLGE provides an option and is the default to KEEP(*YES) the associated image catalogue file the 4=Remove option in WRKIMGCLGE provides no option to keep the associated file. This is inconsistent and has resulted in image files bei...
    10 months ago in IBM i / Install and Upgrade and Licensing 4 Under review

    Add Function Usage to RTVSYSINF

    It would be great if the Function Usage (WRKFCNUSG) values could be integrated into the Retrieve System Information (RTVSYSINF) data collector. This would simplify data transfer to new systems via Save/Restore without the risk of forgetting values...
    11 months ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 1 Under review

    Sending Apache Server access and error logs to a Syslog Server

    Enable sending of Apache Server access and error logs on IBM i to a local or remote Syslog Server
    8 months ago in IBM i / Web Serving 1 Under review

    Adopted authority to SFTP connections

    Hello team, since a couple of days we are fighting with the SFTP connections, what is the problem? For BATCH process, there is no problem because you can use the "user profile" for the submission but... for interactive transactions, the sftp conne...
    6 months ago in IBM i / Security 3 Under review

    Allow programs and service programs to FORCE library at top of system library list.

    When creating or changing Commands and Menus (*CMD, *MNU) objects you can set the PRDLIB, which cause the specified library to be inserted between the system library list and the user library list in the library list order. This provides a nice wa...
    6 months ago in IBM i / Security 1 Under review

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