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Support ISO 8601 Date-Time Format in VARCHAR_FORMAT and TIMESTAMP() patterns

This may be a dup of an 4 or 5 year old request, but please add native support for the ISO 8601 date-time format in Db2 for i. This includes: 1. Parsing and Formatting: Built-in SQL functions to convert between ISO 8601 and existing Db2 date/time ...
8 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 0 Submitted

Enhance the File Expiration Date on SAV commands

Right now, you have two options with the File Expiration Date on save commands: put *PERM for permanent or specify a specific date. Ideally, you would want to say "30 days from now" but there's no way to do that without putting the command in a pr...
22 days ago in IBM i / Core OS 0 Submitted

Possibility to use generic message ID's on ON-EXCP section in MONITOR group

It would be very useful to have ability to use generic message ID's e.g CPF0000, CPF9800 in ON-EXCP op-code within MONITOR group. This should be similar to CL's MONMSG functionality in terms of generic message ID's monitoring.
4 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 1 Future consideration

simplify the procedure to install the license key

the procedure to install the license key is awfully complicated and error prone and requested tech support which superseded the instructions that are poor and incomplete.
about 1 month ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Future consideration

Table that contains the QAUDJRN journal entry type descriptions

It would be useful to have a table, if one does not already exist, that contains the QAUDJRN journal entry descriptions. This would be very useful to be able to use to get the description using a join to the AUDIT_JOURNAL_xx & DISPLAY_JOURNAL....
7 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 7 Future consideration

Include LF with shared access path in SYSPARTITIONINDEXES and SYSPARTITIONINDEXSTAT

SYSPARTITIONINDEXES and SYSPARTITIONINDEXSTAT include many usefull informations about logical files (DDS type). Since they are a valid substitute for the use of APIs, it would be very useful if logic files with shared access were also included in ...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Not under consideration

Policy-based High Availability (HA) support in PowerVC

Policy-based High Availability (HA) provides a solution for two Storage Systems in different locations where the storage will automatically remain accessible to hosts if there is an event that impacts the infrastructure and makes one of the system...
9 months ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Mitigate security risk VOLATILE TE - tsd entries after efix installation

Why is this necessary? After applying an efix (for example security fixes) the TE (Trusted Execution) tsd.dat is modified and stanza are replace with keyword VOLATILE. This happens for the replaced binaries (executables) and libraries, that were r...
3 months ago in AIX 1 Future consideration

Hide IBM i Access Splash screen

Intrusive panel disrupts the user experience and produces a constant flashing effect when a batch file runs multiple commands.
9 days ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Functionality already exists

Enhance the Query Supervisor for temporary storage thresholds to also apply to the *DATABASE temporary storage buckets

We have had several rogue queries that used very large amounts of temporary storage. We have query supervisor thresholds in place, but it did not alert us because the temporary storage was not part of the job itself, but rather the database tempor...
17 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 0 Submitted

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