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IBM i

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    Warn customers before Defective PTFs are applied

    Customers often download CUMEs or HIPERs well before they plan to apply them. During the interim, one or more PTFs may be marked defective, but the system allows the PTFs to be applied without warning customers. The following scenario is a possibl...
    3 months ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 0 Submitted

    Oauth authentification for email

    Hello, In September 2025, Microsoft will deprecate SMTP with login/password and will only allow SMTP with OAuth. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/clients-and-mobile-in-exchange-online/deprecation-of-basic-authentication-exchange-online I...
    8 months ago in IBM i / Networking 4 Future consideration

    QM Profile Management: CRTUSRPRF automatically creates QM Profile with *SELECT as Allowed SQL-Statement per Default

    Hi all if you create a userprofile, the CRTUSRPRF - command automatically creates a Query Manager Profile with (as default) *SELECT as Allowed SQL Statement. There is no way to inhibit creation or change any defaults. Also there is no command / AP...
    16 days ago in IBM i / Other 0 Submitted

    %SCANRPL to replace only *FIRST (or *LAST) occurence

    %SCANRPL is a nice and usefull function but sometimes we need to limit the replacement to the first or the last occurence. Of course we can code around it using %scan but nowadays UTF strings are more complicated so the code itself can became frag...
    8 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 3 Future consideration

    ACS - Spool Files Component - Allow defining outque residing in IASP library

    We have outque libraries that reside in SYSBAS as well as in the iASP. But using the ACS Spool Files component, we cannot get to our outque libraries in the IASP. Only in the SYSBAS libraries. Even though we created the spool files that are put in...
    about 1 month ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 0 Submitted

    Extend the SAVxxx and RSTxxx commands to allow an IFS file as the SAVF file.

    The SAV and RST commands allow the value *SAVF for the device parameter, but the save file itself must necessarily refer to a file located in a library. Of course, it’s possible to use the CPYTOSTMF and CPYFRMSTMF commands to achieve the desired r...
    7 months ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 1 Under review

    Add user to SEP parameter so we can target another users job with that SEP

    With the recent release of SEP support for Merlin and VS Code, it seems that they made it just use the user you connected to the IBM i with. In my product, we rarely (dare I say never) want to set an SEP on our current user. We need to 'catch' the...
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / Application Development 1 Submitted

    Do not re-create QSECEXP1 job schedule when changing profile expiration date

    Hi IBM team, When changing the date in the USREXPDATE of the CHGUSRPRF command, the QSECEXP1 job schedule is re-created even if it already exists. Also, the description disapears and the 'Scheduled by' is changed with the profile that did the chan...
    17 days ago in IBM i / System Management 0 Submitted

    ACS Printer session reset outq private authority when it is recreated.

    Current Observation: When the system recreates a printer device, the associated output queue (OUTQ) object’s private authority is reset to its default. If there are spooled files in the OUTQ, the system does not recreate the OUTQ—even if the print...
    17 days ago in IBM i / Print 0 Submitted

    Allow to initialize arrays using %list

    Allow for arrays to be initialized using %list command, for example: dcl-s allowedValues int(10) dim(4) inz(%list(1:2:3:4)); Plus error checking when initial value exceeds array size etc.
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 2 Future consideration

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