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SQL service to manage certificate store (import certificate to store)

Hello, I recently just been working on some certificates projects and I thought it would be a great use to have a SQL functionality to import certificate to a store. Furthermore It would be nice to have a possibility to assign or replace certifica...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / System Management 1 Submitted

Few confirmation screen before power off manage system

It has been observed a couple of times in the past that the managed server on the processors (i.e. the whole machine) has been powered off accidently since the enhanced version of the GUI was available. To avoid another accident in future can we h...
3 months ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

Custom SQLSTATE/MESSAGE for SIGNAL statement

Currently it is possible with the SIGNAL statement to return a custom SQLSTATE and message. DECLARE COUNTRY_NOT_FOUND CONDITION FOR SQLSTATE '02000'; DECLARE EXIT HANDLER FOR COUNTRY_NOT_FOUND SIGNAL SQLSTATE '75001' SET MESSAGE_TEXT = 'Country no...
3 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Future consideration

Provide Db2 table / SQL Service to provide information on changed objects as seen in Memo to Users for new OS release.

For each new release we review the list of changes made to APIs, SQL Services, Exit Points and Commands as recorded in the Memo to Users and then manually review these to see if our software uses any of these. For those that are used we then need ...
7 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 0 Submitted

Add an option to show the newest "Insert From Examples" that are available ACS Run SQL Scripts

IBM adds new Insert from Examples with every version of ACS, so that we can more easily find these new examples, can you please add some sort of view or flag or date to highlight these new examples.
7 days ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 0 Submitted

IBM ACS Spool File Download hangs ay 99% if download started whilst the Spool File was Open

If you use ACS Spool File Download function on a Spool File that is at Status Open, and allow the download to get to 99%, the download hangs and will never completes, even if the spool file is later closed the spool file status changes to Ready
7 days ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

lpardbg - Add data collection for LPARS running AIX

lpardbg is a great new feature to collect snap-data from VIOS via HMC, but it would be nice to be able to collect data from LPARS with AIX as OS as well. Documentation of lpardbg: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/power10?topic=commands-lpardbg
8 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

Copy User Profile - No Option to NOT copy TOTP

Problem Statement When copying user profiles to other systems through Navigator for i, there is no option to NOT copy their TOTP. To reduce TOTP re-use and better align with best security practices; this operation should be disabled by default and...
25 days ago in IBM i / System Management 2 Future consideration

Change of name and library of SQL package in a Embedded SQL program

Our programs are compiled on a central build server which is integrated in a CI/CD pipeline. Created objects will be saved and restored on different production systems. We have a ILE Cobol embedded SQL program which can also be used to access a re...
26 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 0 Submitted

Enhance IBM SQL Services to use better "list" parameter parsing

I’d like to request an enhancement to IBM i SQL Services to improve flexibility when passing multiple values to parameters that accept lists. Currently, the following syntax does not work: table(qsys2.active_job_info(subsystem_list_filter=>'QIN...
3 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 4 Future consideration

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