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IBM i

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A SQL view to display the information on a line

A view or function that provides information as in the DSPLIND command or the API QDCRLIND More here : https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.6.0?topic=ssw_ibm_i_76/apis/QDCRLIND.html
4 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 5 Future consideration

Allow the evaluation of RPG expressions as "pseudo host variables" in EXEC SQL statements

The idea is, to allow the evaluation of RPG expressions (including the call of %BIFs and procedures) inside an EXEC SQL statement as "pseudo-host-variables". The syntax could be like that: exec sql select count(*) into :myCounter from mytable w...
4 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Not under consideration

Restoring individual Authorization Lists.

When moving one customer from a SAAS LPAR to his own LPAR, you must be restoring ALL user profiles to get all Authorization lists. The SAAS LPAR is running multiple customers with over 1500 user profiles. If you want to move one customer with abou...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 3 Future consideration
309 VOTE

*ESCAPE messages for SAVLIB

We have received MONMSG for CPF3795 in every SAVLIB running in our CL program: https://ecurep.mainz.de.ibm.com/rest/download/28061%2C100%2C838/2018-04-06/28061.100.838.SOURCE.txt?astext=true&fileSize=83568 But, when CPF3795 is reported saving ...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 5 Not under consideration

Extend the SQL command HTTP_DELETE and include a additional body parameter

It would be great if the SQL command HTPP_DELETE could be extended by an additional request body. I know that this is not the standard, but in an actual project we need to pass an order number in a HTTP_DELETE statement. The problem is, that other...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Not under consideration

Automatic Management of TLS Certificates

Since the validity period of SSL/TLS certificates will be reduced from the current 398 days to 47 days starting in March 2029, managing certificates manually will become very difficult due to the significantly shortened validity.Therefore, a servi...
5 months ago in IBM i / Security 1 Submitted

Run SQL Scripts: Remember previous prompted variable values

Related to IBMI-I-4640, when using prompted variables, have iACS RSS remember the previous values and present them in a combo box for each variable. This would make running the same query multiple times much easier when you can select previous val...
2 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Future consideration

Free Tier for IBM i (AS/400) to Support Education, Ecosystem Growth, and Promote IBM Cloud

Note: This proposal for IBM i addresses the exact same core issue of lacking a free tier for accessibility, education, and community growth as outlined for AIX in idea AIX-I-802: https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/AIX-I-802. Both platforms suffer from th...
8 months ago in IBM i / Core OS 1 Under review

possibility to assign the certificate from DCM console for Navigator and DCM web portal

Today we have to manage or assign the certifiate outside DCM console especially while renewing new certificate we have to manage all tcp enabled ssl service in DCM console and for navigator and DCM outside DCM console like web admin console and na...
3 months ago in IBM i / Web Serving 3 Under review

Urgent support for Power HA System Mirror for IBM i of the new IBM Spectrum Virtualize function Policy-based HA (the new Hyperswap function)

With the last announcements of IBM storage, the IBM Spectrum Virtualize Software is enhanced with the new functions based on Policy-based HA (the new Hyperswap function). The PowerHA system mirror for i, today doesn't support this new function and...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / PowerHA 7 Future consideration