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Addition of Journal Code/Entry type description table

I'd like to suggest adding a table to QSYS2 with the contents of the help text for Journal Codes and Journal Entry Types. If we were to combine this table with DISPLAY_JOURNAL it would provide a greater amount of context to queries against journals.
4 months ago in IBM i / Other 1 Submitted

SYSTOOLS/GENERATE_SPREADSHEET - Add possibility to export to a specific spreadsheet tab

Implemented by adding a new parameter "SPREADSHEET_TAB" to the GENERATE_SPREADSHEET function.
3 months ago in IBM i / Other 0 Submitted

Enhance the CPIAD09, CPIAD0B, and CPI3E34 messages to indicate whether the connection came in an a secure port or a non-secure port

The subject messages are all very similar and are logged to the history log when new connections are made to the system. These messages are very useful to understand the workload for connections to the system. However, there is no ability to deter...
5 months ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 1 Submitted

Add a way to associate a Binding Directory with a Subprocedure Prototype

When using /INCLUDE to pull in Prototypes, RPG developers also have to remember to specify the BNDDIR or BNDSRVPGM keyword on the CTL-OPT spec in order to include the related component that contains the procedure. This request would enable the dev...
3 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 0 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 1 year ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 2 Submitted

IBM Navigator for i EIM reporting - users with their associations

Can you please provide the ability to export a list of EIM users along with their associations. Currently it's only possible to export the users. Something I can use to locate users that no longer have a target because their IBM i account has been...
4 months ago in IBM i / Application Development 0 Submitted

IBM i Services for the Advanced Job Scheduler (AJS)

IBM i is moving into the direction of adding SQL service to nealry every part of the operating system, except for the Advanced Job Scheduler. To my knowledge there are none. Since the license simplification the use of the Advanced Job Scheduler is...
7 months ago in IBM i / System Management 2 Submitted

managment librairies list for librairies product with SQL *SYS Convention Name

When you use a select in SQL without qualification and SQL naming *SYS, you use the library list possibilities with a litle different *PRDLIB i have a command CMD PROMPT('test mycmd') PRDLIB(MYLIB) a program associate to thic command ...
8 months ago in IBM i / AI with IBM i 1 Submitted

Add column for IP address when looking up Writers and Remote Writers

Finding and changing the IP address of a printer on a device description or an output queue has been traditionally very difficult to do, especially in an environment with lots of printers and no one knows the name of the printer on IBM i. I would ...
10 months ago in IBM i / Other 0 Submitted

Added specific RPG Compiler/syntax checker error or warning for lines that end with COLON

When writing code using PC-based editors, often the colon is mistakenly entered instead of the semi-colon. This often happens in "assist" mode or by simply not pressing the shift-key. However the current RPG Compiler usually says "keyword not foun...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 0 Submitted

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