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CPE3025 should tell what exactly is missing.

The message CPE3025 occurs when a file or folder in the IFS cannot be found. But you have to guess which one, as CPE3025 doesn't tell. Edit: it is obviously me sending the message; sorry. But nevertheless, a common data structure for CPExxxx-messa...
17 days ago in IBM i / Core OS 0 Submitted

Navigator add own monitor

In Navigator there is the ability to define monitors that are managed directly by the system and are based on certain metrics such as free disk space capacity, CPU usage, etc. In addition, there is the ability to monitor message queues, defining m...
13 days ago in IBM i / System Management 0 Submitted

Tracking the number of message KEYS used by an active program

This is about MESSAGE KEYS. There are a limited number of message KEYS that a job can use. When that limit is reached, the job stops functioning and must be restarted. This job is very important to our business and processes MQ transactions and we...
9 days ago in IBM i / Core OS 0 Submitted

IBM Navigator for i EIM reporting - users with their associations

Can you please provide the ability to export a list of EIM users along with their associations. Currently it's only possible to export the users. Something I can use to locate users that no longer have a target because their IBM i account has been...
18 days ago in IBM i / Application Development 0 Submitted

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

Add an SQL processing option to automatically produce default values for NULL columns

Add a new processing option for use in SET OPTION statement that would cause DB2 to essentially produce COALESCE() functions for null capable columns. Suggested option keyword: GENDFTONNULL. Default to *NO for compatibility. *YES would cause null ...
18 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Not under consideration

Mitigate security risk VOLATILE TE - tsd entries after efix installation

Why is this necessary? After applying an efix (for example security fixes) the TE (Trusted Execution) tsd.dat is modified and stanza are replace with keyword VOLATILE. This happens for the replaced binaries (executables) and libraries, that were r...
about 2 months ago in AIX 0 Under review

Allow SND-MSG to use %target(*PGMBDY 1 ) more like the QMH* APIs.

I was using SND-MSG with %target(*PGMBDY 1 ) the other day and noticed that it does not work correctly -- or, rather, it does not work as expected (like the message handling APIs do it). When using (*PGMBDY 1) via QMHSNDPM or other QMH apis, the m...
5 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 1 Needs more information

BASH as a SQL service ( SQL scalar function)

Lots of great tooling is available in PASE via bash. It would be appreciated if commands could be executed using a "user defined function" returning a CLOB for the stdout. An implementation can be found here. https://github.com/NielsLiisberg/sql-o...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Future consideration

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.
2 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 1 Future consideration