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IBM i

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WRKPTFGRP vs. DSPPTFGRP

The service below requires the user to be authorized to the WRKPRTGRP. But the service only list information not changing anything, so why not only require authorization to DSPPTFGRP? Improvement suggestion to IBM… SELECT CURRENT SERVER CONCAT ' i...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 0 Submitted

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...
3 months ago in IBM i / Storage 4 Not under consideration

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...
8 months ago in IBM i / PowerHA 5 Submitted

Create a web based full functioning 5250 Emulator

I need the ability to create a web based full functioning 5250 Emulator comparable to the ACs Java 5250 emulator
about 1 month ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

A library's CRTOBJAUD setting should be honored for CRTDUPOBJ adding to the library.

This closes a security hole. The library's CRTOBJAUD setting is used to assure that objects created within the library have the auditing desired. However, CRTDUPOBJ will put an object into a library and the auditing is based on the source object's...
19 days ago in IBM i / Security 1 Not under consideration

Include LF with shared access path in SYSPARTITIONINDEXES and SYSPARTITIONINDEXSTAT

SYSPARTITIONINDEXES and SYSPARTITIONINDEXSTAT include many usefull informations about logical files (DDS type). Since they are a valid substitute for the use of APIs, it would be very useful if logic files with shared access were also included in ...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Not under consideration

Fix bug in CHGSMTPA

When you run CHGSMTPA you can choose SBSD in which you can run smtp jobs. This parameter allows putting 10 chars for the *sbsd object and 10 chars for the library. When you use a 10-character library in the parameter, however, errors occur in both...
26 days ago in IBM i / Networking 0 Submitted

Possibility to use generic message ID's on ON-EXCP section in MONITOR group

It would be very useful to have ability to use generic message ID's e.g CPF0000, CPF9800 in ON-EXCP op-code within MONITOR group. This should be similar to CL's MONMSG functionality in terms of generic message ID's monitoring.
3 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 1 Future consideration

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...
22 days ago in IBM i / Security 0 Submitted

RPG: Do not send RNF7031 (variable not referenced) for fields in template ds

For data consistency we use our reference file to define internal fields like so: dcl-ds omsref ext template end-ds ; dcl-s myObject like ( objc ); The reference file contains a boatload of fields. Because we do not use the majority of these field...
22 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 0 Submitted