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    GitHub actions for ppc64le. Let's make ppc64le a standard!

    With the exponential emergence of ARM-based systems we think it is time to make ppc64le a third standard along with x86 and ARM. 1. The context The rise of containerization and cloud-native applications has emphasized the importance of Continuous ...
    over 1 year ago in Linux for Power / RHEL OpenShift (5639-OCP) 9 Future consideration

    Run SQL Scripts: Remove redundant variable prompting

    When prompting for multiple substitution variables with same name, only prompt once.
    3 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 5 Future consideration

    Allow generic member/file name for /COPY and /INCLUDE compiler directive

    Today if we have to include several copy member, we have use one /COPY or /INCLUDE directive per member: /include qcopysrc,copy01/include qcopysrc,copy02/include qcopysrc,copy03 My proposal is, to extend the /COPY and /INCLUDE directive to support...
    23 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 6 Submitted

    Change Data Capture (CDC) support in Db2 for i

    We have a requirement to stream data in realtime from Db2 for i to other consumers for AI, data warehouse and other systems. I'm aware there are third party products available like Debezium, Fivetran and others, and you can always roll your own. H...
    about 1 month ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 5 Submitted

    Provide a tool Admins can use to review PTF cover letters for Special and Activation Instructions

    Currently there is no tool available to assist Admins when reviewing PTF cover letters prior to loading and installing PTF's. This would be helpful as there are thousands of PTF's in a typical deployment. It is impossible to review each cover lett...
    2 months ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 2 Submitted

    Native DCM support for ACME protocol (Automatic Certificate Management Environment)

    Certificate lifespan is drastically shortening. and certificates are fundamental in todays security. Lifespan will be 47 days in 2029. IBM i needs a robust way to automate the renewal of publicly signed certificates.
    3 months ago in IBM i / Security 3 Future consideration

    Add support for USB devices >256GB

    As LTO Drives and media getting larger (and more expensive) it is not longer suitable for a daily backup on small environments. So a lot of customers use USB thumbdrives, but these are only supported up to 256GB Please add support (and test) for l...
    4 months ago in IBM i / Hardware 6 Under review

    OVERRIDE_INFO for any job

    At present OVERRIDE_INFO will only return results for the current job. Please allow it to return the same information for any job passed to it. It could be a Table function of the current view. Pass to it a fully qualified job name, or '*' for the...
    about 2 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Future consideration

    Support LTO9 with SAS and FC direct attach on AIX

    There are many cases which it is necessary to backup AIX to external media. We and BPs have proposed RDX or LTO before, but we are now guided to propose only LTO. There are currently some problems on proposing LTO. Now AIX only supports LTO8 via S...
    7 months ago in AIX 0 Under review

    Built in function to subset an array using a procedure to filter

    Create a new built in function to subset an array using a procedure to filter. Similar to the %SUBARR function, but allow a procedure to be specified to determine if the array entry should be included in the result. Something like ... dcl-ds array...
    about 1 month ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 2 Submitted

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