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IBM i

Add a message after the CPI3E34 when routing work to a different subsystem by user profile

When routing work by user profile for the host servers, there is a CPIAD09 message sent that the user connected to the system, followed by CPIAD0C that the work was transferred to a target subsystem (7.5). On 7.4 and earlier, there are two CPIAD09...
3 days ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging Submitted

Enhance BOOLEAN support in SQL pre-compiler for ILE-RPG

Since the addition of the BOOLEAN data type in DB2 for i existing RPG programs might run into problems. The BOOLEAN support of the SQL pre-compiler is documented here. Now if there is an existing table with a column "column1" of type CHAR(1) it wa...
18 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG Submitted

Ragged Flash and Live Partition Mobility – Modify CHGASPA to use multiple serial numbers

1. Problem description Currently at V7R5 the CHGASPA command with No commit boundary set to yes, we only have the option to enter a single serial number making restoring to a Recovery LPAR that has been migrated using LPM would not cut the ragged ...
about 22 hours ago in IBM i / PowerHA Submitted

RSEAPI - Security services - add the certificate chain aliases to the return JSON

Hi, The selection criteria in the certificate APIs are based on the alias.To be able to retrieve a certificate chain via the API post /api/v1/security/dcm/cert/info, is it possible to add the issuer alias ? current json : { "alias": "MyCertificate...
2 days ago in IBM i / Web Serving Submitted

Please add subsystem column to QSYS2.JVM_INFO

We use QSYS2.JVM_INFO to monitor specific JVMs, alert of heap size etc. It would be really helpful if we could retrieve/filter on the subsystem of the JVM. We have multiple JVMs with the same runtime characteristics - except subsystem - for instan...
2 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i Submitted

Avoid HTTP server down time for certificate renewal

With the looming prospect of certificate renewal every 47 days after 15 March 2029 in mind, it will become a burden if this requires an HTTP to be restarted. This is about adding functionality to "refresh" a certificate when it is being renewed, t...
29 days ago in IBM i / Core OS Submitted

Make option "Format" available in Remote Systems and i Project views for bulk formatting

Currently, the IBM formatters can only be invoked within the LPEX Editor via the "Source -> Format" option. It would be highly beneficial if the "Format" option were also available in the following views: Remote Systems i Project Project Naviga...
9 days ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) Submitted

Add the parent job for Batch Immediate Jobs to Collection Services Job Data

There can be a lot of batch immediate jobs and sometimes it can be quite difficult to determine where they are coming from, particularly if they are spawn (QP0ZSPWT) jobs. Add the parent job to the Collection Services data to make it much easier t...
3 days ago in IBM i / Performance Tools Submitted

Add PowerHA support for volume group snapshots as alternative to flash copy

Currently IBMi PowerHA supports remote mirror and policy based replication. PowerHA also support flash copy to copy an iASP from a source cluster node to a target cluster node. We use this technology to refresh our dev and acceptance systems with ...
14 days ago in IBM i / PowerHA Submitted

SST via SQL

It would be nice to have access to SST logs via SQL view. IBM recently introduce something very helpful: PROBLEM_INFO SQL view which mirror WRKPRB; it would be great to have the same for SST.
9 days ago in IBM i / Core OS Submitted

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