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IBM i

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Add silent recovery to Scratch Install/Restore on IBM i, to help MWA be fully automatic.

Besides Migrate While Active have some issues building the NFS install server (take a look at the TFTP setup), there are tasks asking for manual operation. We work migrating customers with IBM i and AIX to Power Virtual Servers and other clouds, a...
about 19 hours ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 0 Submitted

Improve message of CPF5222 on CHGPWD

When changing a password upon expiration or during CHGPWD execution, if a blank or non-alphabetic character is entered in the current/new password field, the message CPF5222 'Name is not correct' is displayed. However, this message does not clearl...
12 days ago in IBM i / Security 0 Submitted

ICC product should provide information to BRMS indicating tape transfer has failed

Hello, As per case TS019399743: "...I was working with development teams and sincerely apologize for delayed response. BRMS development team has checked and confirmed that ICC product do not provide information to BRMS indicating tape transfer has...
4 days ago in IBM i / Other 0 Submitted

Fail the compile when source information cannot be inserted into the object

When a module is created, the source information is inserted into the object description. There can be a situation where the source cannot be allocated to fetch the information. Instead of failing the compile, the source information inside the obj...
3 days ago in IBM i / Application Development 0 Submitted

Db2 JSON functions for RPG data structures

In some of the currently most used languages like Python and Node.js, it is common to define a data structure for your JSON payload, which is then easily transformed into JSON. In Python, we usually define a dictionary with all the fields and our ...
6 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Submitted

Add Support for HTTP/2 to SQL HTTP Functions

Currently looks like SQL HTTP Functions on support HTTP/1.1. I have a Vendor that is requestions that HTTP/2 be used with API.
20 days ago in IBM i / Web Serving 0 Submitted

Change Data Capture (CDC) support in DB2 for i

We have a requirement to stream data in realtime from DB2 for i to other consumers for AI, data warehouse and other systems. I'm aware there are third party products available like Debezium, Fivetran and others, and you can always roll your own. H...
12 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 0 Submitted

When Navigator is configured to support TLS, unsecure http requests to port 2001 should redirect to Navigator over https port 2003

Some customers configure TLS but do not disable the nonsecure ports "just in case". They use the https ports, but the nonsecure interface is still running. When running in this configuration, a request to http://servername:2001/ will redirect to t...
3 days ago in IBM i / System Management 0 Submitted

Built in function to subset an array using a procedure to filter

Create a new built in function to subset an array using a procedure to filter. Similar to the %SUBARR function, but allow a procedure to be specified to determine if the array entry should be included in the result. Something like ... dcl-ds array...
17 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 2 Submitted

Allow ACS to be updated manually within RDi

Allow ACS to be updated manually within RDi so the latest version can be used. Alternatively, allow users to link an existing version of ACS to RDi to be used instead of the built in version.
20 days ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Submitted

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