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IBM i

AI-Powered Job Log Analyzer

A native AI assistant that watches job logs (QHST, QSYSOPR, etc.) and :- Summarizes errors in human-readable form Suggests fixes from IBM docs Flags recurring patterns or anomalies Helps users and improves system reliability. It’s not "mission-cri...
12 months ago in IBM i / AI with IBM i Submitted

Subfile size 32767 rows.

Because the data to display are much more than in the past, we need to extend the maximum number of records allowed from 9999 to 32767.
4 months ago in IBM i / Application Development Submitted

In Run Sql Scripts, visual explain, allow explanation to be refreshed

When using Visual Explain, it would be useful to be able to refresh the explanations and recommendations after creating indexes.
about 1 month ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family Submitted

Add IFS source information to OBJECT_STATISTICS

Storing source information in the object is a very valuable audit tool. In this way auditors and DevOps providers can match source change dates and locations with the information stored in the object. Since more an more objects can be created from...
about 1 year ago in IBM i / Application Development Submitted

SRCSTMF parameter for CRTDSPF

As we are using more and more modern ways and tools to develop our software, it really hurts that one has to copy DDS sources to a member in a temporary source physical file in order to be able to create a display file. I’m pretty sure that it wou...
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / Application Development Submitted

Upgrade level of OpenSSH from v9.6p1 to one which will pass scanning services.

IBM i: Qualys is dinging us for OpenSSH ssh Function Vulnerability (CVE-2025-61984) Opened up a case with IBM . The reply to the case was: This vulnerability was discovered fairly recently and has low (3.6 base) score on the X-Force Exchange site....
3 months ago in IBM i / Security 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 ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / Other 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 ...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / AI with IBM i Submitted

To ensure we don't miss CPU spikes, we want to be able to set the graph interval to a finer resolution.

Please allow us to specify the graph interval time for Navigator for i's performance display in greater detail. Current Situation:When displaying data for multiple days (four days or more) in the “Performance” section of Navigator for i, the minim...
4 months ago in IBM i / Performance Tools Submitted

RPG Source compare for *functional* differences

As many of us are doing these days, we are converting our old RPG 3, RPG ILE, etc. to 100% free RPGLE (**free) and making changes in VSCode. This is good. However, When you have to Peer Code Review your co-workers changes, it is extremely difficul...
6 months ago in IBM i / AI with IBM i Submitted

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