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IBM i

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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 ...
6 months ago in IBM i / Other 0 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 ...
4 months ago in IBM i / AI with IBM i 1 Submitted

See progress of RGZPFM

When you do a RGZPFM can we see the progress in the joblog? or somewhere we could see how much progress is being made. This will help gauging how long a reorg will take.
5 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 4 Future consideration

Add TLS support for SNDDSTJS

Add TLS 1.3 support for SNDDSTJS to connect to a remote mail router without authentication. Advanced job scheduler notification properties does not have the option to enable TLS. TLS is required by some companies including financial intuitions.
4 months ago in IBM i / Security 1 Submitted

SEP in VS Code to debug any user or all users

When using a Service Entry Point to debug in Visual Studio Code, it is important to be able to debug other users' jobs. Currently, it will only break if the program is being run under the same user that started the debug session. Being able to spe...
2 months ago in IBM i / Application Development 0 Submitted

Add a new option on CRTDUPOBJ to replace the object

Create a new option REPLACE(*YES|*NO) on the CRTDUPOBJ command that will replace the TO object if it exists. This will allow you to use Wildcards and just replace the object. The use case for this is so, we need to copy objects from one library to...
9 months ago in IBM i / Core OS 0 Under review

Enable in IBM i Navigator for i Monitors the option to press F4 to set the IBM i trigger command

I use and recommend the System & Messages Monitor from IBM Navigator for i. I think we can improve this tool adding the great F4 option to built the command in the trigger command. If I'm not wrong now I must built it on green screen and then ...
5 months ago in IBM i / System Management 2 Not under consideration

"Mail from" address in SMTP email design change to allow user and domain name in lower case.

Currently the design has hard coded setting that forces Upper Case on user and domain name in SMTP on Mail From.
about 1 year ago in IBM i / Networking 2 Under review

IBM i DCM - Last used timestamp for each certificate

For the purpose of housekeeping the certificate stores in IBM i DCM, it would be very useful to enhance DCM to be able to show the "Last Used Time Stamp" and also "Use Count" for EACH certificate in the store so that system admin can efficiently s...
about 1 year ago in IBM i / Security 3 Future consideration

Linear Tape File Sistem (LTFS) support on IBM i

LTFS is a common LTO tape format for offline archive across multiple platforms. It would be valuable for system adminstrators/operators if IBM i platform could also supports LTFS formatted LTO tape cartridge.
2 months ago in IBM i / System Management 0 Submitted

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