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IBM i

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Possibility to create IFS objects filters

Because many sources for IBM objects e.g programs, commands can be stored in IFS directories, it would be good to have possibility to define IFS directories and files filters like ones available for objects.
4 months ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Future 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...
5 months ago in IBM i / PowerHA 2 Submitted

Display PTF information on the UI

For maintenance purposes our team highly rely on displaying current PTF levels installed on each LPAR. Can we have current PTF levels information displayed on the UI.
8 days ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 1 Submitted

Provide a C/C++ "API" or function to enable reading Deleted records from a database file.

Now that the system is "closed" we can't use our old ways to do certain things. There needs to be a way to go out to a database file record and programmatically "undelete" that record. That is, say I'm going to open file ABC using the open or fope...
16 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 0 Submitted

Allow to initialize arrays using %list

Allow for arrays to be initialized using %list command, for example: dcl-s allowedValues int(10) dim(4) inz(%list(1:2:3:4)); Plus error checking when initial value exceeds array size etc.
6 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 1 Future consideration
307 VOTE

*ESCAPE messages for SAVLIB

We have received MONMSG for CPF3795 in every SAVLIB running in our CL program: https://ecurep.mainz.de.ibm.com/rest/download/28061%2C100%2C838/2018-04-06/28061.100.838.SOURCE.txt?astext=true&fileSize=83568 But, when CPF3795 is reported saving ...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 5 Not under consideration

SEP in VS Code to debug any user or all users

When using a Service Entry Point to debug in Visual Studio Code, it is important to be able to debug other users' jobs. Currently, it will only break if the program is being run under the same user that started the debug session. Being able to spe...
25 days ago in IBM i / Application Development 0 Submitted

DATFMT(*JOBYY) for date fields in DDS

We want to control the format of our date field dynamically depending on a country or user setting. Normally you can use the DATFMT keyword to set the date's format. And all formats are supported. Our idea was to use DATFMT(*JOB) because we wanted...
5 months ago in IBM i / Application Development 0 Submitted

Add Inherit Rules to IFS journalling

Today when you set up journalling for the IFS the STRJRN command allows you to filter the objects that are to be journalled, however this is a one off request and the inherit rules are not able to be set to allow future filtering of the objects jo...
3 months ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 1 Future consideration

Enable iASP column in IBM Navigator list view

IBM Navigator for i brings in new functionality in every release and customers are appreciating it. However we are still missing this IASP column in the view when we are viewing two or more systems together. For the disk usage we have *SYSBAS incl...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / System Management 2 Future consideration

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