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IBM i

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Expand on the Authority Collection process by logging commands that actually use the special authorities granted on user profile

I'm trying to clean up security and while the Authority Collection process is valuable, I need to go a step farther. There are too many IDs with any combination of special authorities, and I do not have a clean way to monitor if it's needed. I wou...
14 days ago in IBM i / Security 0 Submitted

Create a web based full functioning 5250 Emulator

I need the ability to create a web based full functioning 5250 Emulator comparable to the ACs Java 5250 emulator
3 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

Please, fix the VTL iSCSI doc - There is a Typo since 1st release

The document IBM i Support for iSCSI VTL 1.6 _3 at https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/system/files/inline-files/IBM%20i%20Support%20for%20iSCSI%20VTL%201.6%20_3.pdf has a type that creates some confusion. On page 12 talks about the command iscsiswi...
28 days ago in IBM i / Documentation 1 Submitted

WRKPTFGRP vs. DSPPTFGRP

The service below requires the user to be authorized to the WRKPRTGRP. But the service only list information not changing anything, so why not only require authorization to DSPPTFGRP? Improvement suggestion to IBM… SELECT CURRENT SERVER CONCAT ' i...
3 months ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 0 Submitted

Enterprise Extender should be able to utilize a proxy and FQDN for connections.

Enterprise Extender should be able to utilize a proxy and FQDN for connections.
15 days ago in IBM i / Application Development 0 Submitted

Moving old data from production tables to historic tables in another library

In an active production system such as we have being in a 24 hour service financial environment, we have an issue with old data that exists in many of our database tables. Every second new data is being recorded in this tables and old the old data...
15 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Not under consideration

Provide an end time for long running jobs in Advanced Job Scheduler (5770JS1)

We have a number of long running AJS jobs that start 06:00 and end 23:00 for example. It would be great to have this function built-in rather than have to write a routine to end the job.
15 days ago in IBM i / System Management 0 Submitted

IBM i ACS data upload type casting

Hi, IBM i ACS is the replacment product for IBM i Access for windows. https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/633847 In Client Access for windows, it is possible to perform data download and data upload of a CCSID37 file that contains non CCSID 37 ...
15 days ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

6-digit date format for RPG

Hi IBM, On further checking, there is an IBM doc (date 2024-10-08) https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.5?topic=ios-changes-1940-2039-date-range-date-formats-2-digit-year that explained that new environment variable QIBM_QBASEYEAR apply to CL command, ...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 0 Submitted

UUID datatype for IBMi

A UUID is a U niversally U nique Id entifier, meaning that these identifiers are unique over your whole DB; even better unique" across space and time". UUID's are stored in 128bit format and follow a standarized format ( rfc4122 ) This makes the t...
4 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Future consideration