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IBM i

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POWERHA IBM i Service

I'd like to see a DB2 Service showing POWERHA status, cluster status, IASP status, CRG status, Administrative Domain status. Use Case: Allow me to programmatically check the status of an IASP and POWERHA information. This would allow for automated...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / PowerHA 6 Delivered

Recognize fields renamed in RPG I-specs in RDi live outline

Currently RDi doesn't recognize renames of fields in RPG I-specs. For example, in the code below, the outline fails to recognize p3srvl as a defined field, and all functions dependent on it do not function. Please consider enabling the live outlin...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Delivered

IBM i - iconv() - Unicode support enhancement (MS932 sequence)

Microsoft Unicode sequence support on iconv() is required.IBM i provides single 1399<->Unicode converter which complies Unicode standard, not the same as Microsoft conversion table.Thus, the result of conversion is different from 5035 (compa...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 2 Delivered

Add support to PRTTRC to sort by *TIME

The PRTTRC has a parameter, SORT, that has two options: *TIME and *THREAD. Attempting to sort by *TIME results in CPF98FF, Function currently not supported. Cause: *TIME Not supported. We intend to provide this function at a future date. This has ...
about 5 years ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 4 Delivered

Abilty to specify a move policy when a volume is full

I would like to have the ability to specify a move policy to run when the volume is full Use Case: To my knowledge the only way you can configure move policy for a media class in BRMS is to set the number of days since the backup before the volume...
about 7 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 7 Delivered

expose DSPNETA via IBM i SQL UDTF

please add an SQL UDTF to expose the data in the DSPNETA command. Use Case: we have a need to "get at" some of the data in the RTVNETA command, ie CPNAME and having a system UDTF would make lots of programming tasks easier.
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 6 Delivered

Connections - Ability to define database to connect to by default

I would like to see a Connections configuration option that allows us to define a default database to connect to on a conneciton.There isn't one today and defaults to the sysbas asp. Which for those of us with iASP infrastructures, is a pain for R...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Delivered

Need USER_OBJECTS_OWNED UDTF/VIEW

Provide an SQL Service in Db2 for i that returns data similar to but better than the WRKOBJOWN CL command. Named something like: USER_OBJECTS_OWNED() Use Case: The need to determine and/or process the list of objects owned by a given IBM i USER PR...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Delivered

BRMS Full System Restore Enhancement

When a full system restore is performed using BRMS during the RTSCFG part devices are created, IBMi creates OUTQs for the devices, yet as OUTQs are created information regarding AUTL for the AUTQ is not restored.An intermediate step before restori...
about 2 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 3 Delivered

DB2 HTTP Consumer Functions (Verbose) are suppressing response messages if the http error code is different than 2xx

If the HTTP Response Code is 3xx or 4xx the (Verbose) HTTP Consumer Functions of DB2 /i are ignoring the response message from the service - the response header ist deliverd - but response message is NULL. Use Case: To enable the best user experie...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Delivered