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IBM i

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First-class support for modernizing a data model

Database modernization on the IBM i is more complex & expensive than it could be. The Lab Services approach [1] of creating a logical file over redesigned tables, (to act as a surrogate for the old design) is a clever hack that reduces the cos...
about 7 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Not under consideration

HTTP server not running in QHTTPSVR can not be managed by HTTP ADMIN

With the announcement of IBM i 7.1 TR 9 and IBM i 7.2 TR 1 it is now possible to let an HTTP server run in it's own subsystem. When looking at the following link "http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=nas8N1020061" it appears that this new...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / System Management 3 Future consideration

Add/Remove Ethernet Ports to AGG LIND without varying off LIND

Description & Background: We are using Ethernet Link Aggregation in IBM i, each with two Ethernet ports aggregated. Due to some #EMX0 expansion drawer issues one of those Ethernet ports lost its link. For reliability reasons we tried to add a ...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Networking 4 Not under consideration

create SQL Service like WRKJOBLOG e.g. JOB_LOG_INFO and REMOVE_JOB_LOG

using JOB_INFO one is able to find about job status. If there is high activity on a server, a lot of job logs are created. To clean up, one can use WRKJOBLOG, use filtering, and F13 to delete. Please provide SQL service for a) filtering and gettin...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Future consideration

Support an ADD MEMBER option on the GENERATE_SQL SQL Stored Procedure

Today if the output source file and member do not exist, the procedure fails. I think the proc should add/replace the data in the output member but also add the member if it does not exist.
5 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Future consideration

Add format level identifier to journal entries for database journaling

Today, journaling of database supply a lot of usefull information, but one is missing : the format level identifier, in other words, the description of the fields. Why do I need that ? Because sometimles I change a filed in a file. Then this file ...
5 months ago in IBM i / System Management 0 Submitted

Password manager integration in ACS

It would be great to have an integration where I could store all my passwords in for example 1Password and easily populate user id and password in ACS from there.
5 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

CL Command to output .xlsx Excel Spreadsheet

Create a CL command to output an .xlsx Excel spreadsheet. Use Case: We are currently using a third party app that outputs to Excel but it's only in .XLS format. That company is barely hanging in and no longer offers any upgrades. Our business depe...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / Languages - CL (Control Language) 4 Not under consideration

STRDBG can not show values of variables based on pointer given as parameter

It's not possible to show the value of variables which based on a pointer given as parameter in STRDGB. If you try to display "pTest" with F11 of the following example you get : EVAL pTest PTEST.V1 = '**********'PTEST.V2 = '**********' Example : d...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 7 Future consideration

Run CL command on several systems using 5250 sessions

In large IBMi shared environment it would be good to have possibility to run the same CL command in the same time on MORE than one 5250 session in ACS. Running the same command on several system one by one (for checking purposes or comparing) is r...
9 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Not under consideration

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