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IBM i

long name CADMRE

The administrative domain allows you to replicate various types of objects and configurations across the different members of the cluster. Among these types, you can also specify environment variables, which often have names longer than 10 charact...
22 days ago in IBM i / PowerHA Submitted

SNMPv3 sends error messages back to the SNMP Mgr

When get wrong value, need SNMP Agent (here is IBM i) response Report PDU with error "notInTimeWindow" + agent's current (new) `engineBoots` and `engineTime` values to SNMP Mgr. It can trigger SNMP Mgr run Discovery and refresh the value.
23 days ago in IBM i / Networking Submitted

Add support for Java 21 to IBM i

Java 21 is needed so we can use new features also on IBM i. It will enable IBM i community to run applications that requires java 21. Java 21 (IBM Semeru) is already available for other platforms.
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / JAVA Submitted

Security issue: C runtime functions snprintf and vsnprintf return code is very much non-standard.

This is useful because it allows C code to write functions securely and detect would-be buffer overruns that might result in security exposures. The return value for snprintf and vsnprintf are not consistent with C99 standard and most all other C ...
2 months ago in IBM i / Languages - Other Submitted

Provide system generated CPW usage for an LPAR

Whenever we need to find CPW for an LPAR, we have to jump around and gather information from numerous places.We need an OS command which would provide that calculation for us. Currently we have to gather system information including Power System m...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Performance Tools Submitted

Provide a method to automate Configure TLS for an HTTP server

I have written an application to automate the Let's Encrypt process for issuing and renewing certificates. I would like to automate the process of assigning a JavaKeyStore to the Admin5 HTTP server. In addition this would be useful for others who ...
4 months ago in IBM i / Web Serving Submitted

ADD in QSYS2 TABLES a new table to know wich programms use an exported porcedure from à service program

Hi, QSYS2 functions and tables allow you to know:- What procedures are exported by our service programs.- What programs use our service programs. But it is not possible to know which programs use which exported procedure. This is a pity because it...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Application Development Submitted

Bring the Rust programming language to IBM i PASE

More and more open source packages depend on Rust so we would like to see the Rust language available on IBM i.
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE Submitted

Add nmap to IBM i repository to be downloaded via ACS

Hi IBM, can you add NMAP package to the IBM i repository? NCAT is part of NMAP and it will be useful to problem remote systems ports from IBM i
4 months ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE Submitted

Allow to create and save to a Tape Image Catalog on remote server

Please, add support to Tape Image Catalog so we can save on a remote server (probably NFS V4) and allow migrate to the cloud when there is not enough local storage in the ASP. I know we can use a Remote Virtual Optical Image Catalog, but this only...
5 months ago in IBM i / Save and Restore Submitted

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