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IBM i

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    create a temp per process ifs dir QTEMP like in use

    For security and auto cleanup, would be useful to have a particular named directory in IFS called for example /QTEMP or /jobtmp etc. that is local to the process (and PASE process) and behaves just like the QTEMP library. Or something autogenerate...
    3 months ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 2 Submitted

    Notifications and Alerting

    Ideally, we would like to see a build in Monitoring and alerting capabilities within PowerHA and AdminDOmain.
    4 months ago in IBM i / PowerHA 1 Submitted

    RBAC for PowerHA and AdminDomain

    It would be helpful to provide product level security where not everyone can access administrative tasks. View access vs. Admin access.
    4 months ago in IBM i / PowerHA 1 Submitted

    Add "Deploy" Feature to BOB

    I would like Bob to support various Deploy features for the IBMi. As an example, after a successful compile of a program, I want the ability to distribute that program from Bob to a list of remote IBMi LPARs.
    about 2 months ago in IBM i / AI with IBM i 1 Submitted

    IBM needs to identify access paths for self-training on IBM i

    Free access IBM i systems like PUB400.COM have up to the present been critical in the community at providing venues for self-training in IBM i. I and others in the community consider it absolutely necessary that such venues continue, and the IBM t...
    4 months ago in IBM i / Other 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.
    6 months ago in IBM i / Other 0 Submitted

    improve MERGE by adding the option "WHEN NOT MATCHED BY SOURCE THEN DELETE"

    Today, it is impossible to use the DELETE clause behind WHEN NOT MATCHED.Some DBMS other than DB2 allow this.Would it be possible to add this feature, like in this example ? MERGE target_table USING source_table ON merge_condition WHEN MATCHED THE...
    over 2 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Submitted

    Add support to ISCSI devices beyond VTL

    Please, add support to ISCSI DVD and ISCSI disk volumes, so we can have more backup and restore options. ISCSI DVD support could allow to create a network install or backup/restore device for SAVSYS or Option22 operations. ISCSI Disks could allow ...
    2 months ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 0 Submitted

    5733-ICC API to delete a no longer needed directory

    There are cloud APIs to copy to, copy from cloud as well as one to remove a file from cloud. However if you file has a directory structure there is no way to remove any of those directories.
    6 months ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 2 Submitted

    Advanced Job Scheduler - Increase job group size from 99 to 999 (# of jobs included in a group) (or at least more than 100)

    We currently use a non-IBM job scheduler that frequently has over 100 jobs in the job grouping. We would like to use AJS to replace this product, but one of the limiting factors is only 99 jobs are allowed in a group.
    8 months ago in IBM i / System Management 0 Submitted

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