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IBM i

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Detailing environmental variables used by IBM products

It would be a great starting point having IBM list the environmental variables used for controlling additional application behavior allowing administrators the ability in some cases to control additional system behavior. eg QIBM_SMTP_FWDSVR_LCL_MAIL
2 months ago in IBM i / Documentation 2 Submitted

Add *OUTPUT to WRKSMTPUSR

Hi, After doing a STRIMPSMTP, we may need to do some change on each record to the list provided by WRKSMTPUSR. With thousend of records impossible to do that by hand. It would be usefull to get the same list in a PF to use ADDUSRSMTP or CHGUSRSMTP...
3 months ago in IBM i / Networking 1 Submitted

Add FSFC Full System Flashcopy option for holding Advanced Job Scheduler jobs

There is a parameter for holding regular scheduled jobs in the default IBM i job scheduler, but there is not one for the (newly free of charge) Advanced Job Scheduler. We would like one.
3 months ago in IBM i / Other 0 Submitted

Adoption of GOLANG (GO Compiler) by Google in the ibmi-ioss supported within PASE

Nodejs Open source applications are beginning to leverage the GO compiler to increase performance. These tend to be things like Angular, typescript etc.
3 months ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 0 Submitted

Eliminate / Upgrade Obsolete C++2013 from IBM i ACS

We recently downloaded the IBM i Access Client Solutions: Application Packages provided by AS 400 support for the iSeries\Genius connections under the subjected project. However, we found that there are some out of support software (C++ 2013) whic...
3 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Future consideration

Prohibit changing the activation group name of a program

If you create a program using the CRTPGM command, you have an ALWUPD() parameter. Setting it to *NO prevents you from changing the activation group name using the UPDPGM ... ACTGRP(new group) command. When you create a program using the CRTBNDXXX ...
3 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 0 Submitted

Add ability to provide additional HTTP status codes when processing a REST web service.

Using REST in IWS, there is no ability to provide alternate return/result codes when processing a web service request. There are only 2 options, status codes 200 or 400. There is need to have user definable result codes to respond with alternate c...
3 months ago in IBM i / Web Serving 0 Submitted

Have possibility to download PTFs via https

Hello, in our company we are forbidden to use java web start as it was marked as vulnerability and FTP connection is being slowly banned out as well. Would there be option (same as for fixes for other IBM products like storage etc) to use https fo...
3 months ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 0 Submitted

Size decrease when downloading PTFs Groups

Hello, My idea is simple. When downloading PTF group images, we would have option to upload some kind of PTF output file (which will tell fix central which PTFs are already on IBM i partition) which will be than processed on fix central and make d...
3 months ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 0 Submitted

Add support for USB devices >256GB

As LTO Drives and media getting larger (and more expensive) it is not longer suitable for a daily backup on small environments. So a lot of customers use USB thumbdrives, but these are only supported up to 256GB Please add support (and test) for l...
3 months ago in IBM i / Hardware 6 Under review

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