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licensing for db2connect change

as a small MSP we eventually ran into a situation where a customer wants to test DB2connect for development purposes. Current Licensing requires us to buy or rent DB2connect for all IBM i enabled cores on the particular server which then can be us...
7 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Submitted

SQL function for CVE currency

Customers need a way to audit compliance with IBM i CVEs. Each CVE is published with a corresponding patch from IBM. A SQL function similar to PTF currency will give customers the ability to check the patch status for all CVEs published by IBM. Th...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Security 8 Submitted
136 VOTE

Link Aggregation NIC adapter replacement without service interruption

When replacing a NIC that is part of an Ethernet Link Aggregation configuration, it is necessary to temporarily disable the Line description on IBMi OS. As a result, the IP address is deactivated, making a service outage unavoidable.Although Power...
4 months ago in IBM i / Networking 3 Submitted

In run SQL Scripts, enhance the messaging when connecting with JDBC to include errors setting the Library List

In "Run SQL Scripts", when setting up the library list for a given JDBC connection, if any of the libraries included in the list do not exist on the system, the entire library list is not set, and the job retains its original list. When connecting...
14 days ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Submitted

Provide an up to date version of ICU - International Components for Unicode (5770SS1 - Option 39)

Having to deal more and more with Unicode and some applications that are still restricted to EBCDIC codepages, I was looking at the ICU library but found out that the most recent version on IBM is 4.0 which dates from 2009 (more as 15 years old) ?...
22 days ago in IBM i / Core OS 0 Submitted
247 VOTE

Machine pool minimum size setting for path switch.

Please refer to TS005543906(CritSit(MEC)) . The system is configured with multi-path storage via SAN switch. The serious problem (5250 telnet terminals dropped) happened when the system did path switch. It was because the lack of machine pool and ...
9 months ago in IBM i / Storage 4 Not under consideration

Change french translation for "Add service entry point"

The french translation for "Add service entry point" is not correct. Actually the translation is "Supprimer le point d'entrée de service", that means "Delete service entry point". During training it's complicated to explain that to add a service e...
5 days ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Submitted

new build in function %PASSEDVALUE

In procedures with optional parameters, the %PASSED-BIF can be used to check whether the parameters are passed. To use such a parameter, a local field must be defined and the value must be set in the local field when the parameter is passed, other...
10 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 0 Submitted

Support value parameters for programs

Sometimes it'd be useful to be able to change a parameter in the main procedure of a program. This feature could internally be implemented by transparently copying a const parameter into a local variable. For example this dcl-pr myprog extpgm('*LI...
3 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 0 Submitted

%SCANRPL to replace only *FIRST (or *LAST) occurence

%SCANRPL is a nice and usefull function but sometimes we need to limit the replacement to the first or the last occurence. Of course we can code around it using %scan but nowadays UTF strings are more complicated so the code itself can became frag...
10 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 0 Submitted

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