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IBM Navigator for i EIM reporting - users with their associations

Can you please provide the ability to export a list of EIM users along with their associations. Currently it's only possible to export the users. Something I can use to locate users that no longer have a target because their IBM i account has been...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Application Development 0 Submitted

Relax requirements for using Ds in I/O

The general problem is about the compiler issuing a RNF7595 when I try to use the same Ds (or Likerec Ds) on diffent files sharing the same format and based on the same PF. This is an example: Dcl-f fileA01L keyed usage(*input); Dcl-f fileA02L key...
2 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 6 Future consideration

Urgent support for Power HA System Mirror for IBM i of the new IBM Spectrum Virtualize function Policy-based HA (the new Hyperswap function)

With the last announcements of IBM storage, the IBM Spectrum Virtualize Software is enhanced with the new functions based on Policy-based HA (the new Hyperswap function). The PowerHA system mirror for i, today doesn't support this new function and...
8 months ago in IBM i / PowerHA 5 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.
9 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 2 Future consideration

Upgrade level of OpenSSH from v8.6p1 to one which will pass scanning services.

We are getting dinged by Qualys that our IBM i is exposed to CVE-2023-51385. I have applied the fixes listed at https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7123159 however IBM only chose to patch an old level of OpenSSH instead of putting on a new leve...
10 months ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 3 Submitted

rpm exits 0 even if the scriptlets exit with error.

starting with version 4.6 rpm exits 0 even if the scriptlets (all but %pre and %preun) exit with error. IMHO this breaks legacy rpm behaviour (i.e. pre version 4.6) and leads to misunderstandings since a simple test on the rpm exit code is not rel...
2 months ago in AIX 0 Submitted

Add FIPS support to JDK 17 and beyond.

FIPS is a requirement for criminal justice processing. It was previously supported in JDK 8 (and maybe later) on the iSeries. It is not supported in JDK 17. To be in compliance with federal Criminal Justice Information Systems (CJIS) standards, FI...
19 days ago in IBM i / JAVA 0 Submitted

Enable F4 on the remove image catalogue entry so KEEP can be set to *YES

While the RMVIMGCLGE provides an option and is the default to KEEP(*YES) the associated image catalogue file the 4=Remove option in WRKIMGCLGE provides no option to keep the associated file. This is inconsistent and has resulted in image files bei...
20 days ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 1 Under review

Enable image catalogue entry to use a specific size or the same size as the first volume.

When a save runs to a virtual tape device and the last volume is used MSG:CPA6798 is issued. The message can be replied to with *GEN which will create a new volume with the following attributes.  ADDIMGCLGE IMGCLG (same as previous volume)  FROM...
20 days ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 0 Submitted

%repeat as a BIF in RPGLE

Now we have the nice string function like %upper,() %lef(), %right() .. etc. and this is just great !! let's continue this toolbox for string functions: Just like the SQL scalar function REPEAT it would be appreciated to have the equivalent functi...
7 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 1 Future consideration

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