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IBM i

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Check group profile authority for Netserver share secured by an authorization list

Since V7R5, a Netserver share can be secured by an authorization list. When checking the authority, the user's (authorized!) group profile is ignored. While IBM i [native] security checking is always taking group profiles into account, it is much ...
about 5 hours ago in IBM i / Security 1 Submitted
245 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 ...
3 months ago in IBM i / System Management 2 Submitted

Allow for Synchronous Policy Based Replication (PBR) on IBM Storwize

With the recent version of IBM Storwize, metro mirror - synchronous replication - is no longer available for IBM i. This version allows for policy based replication (PBR) or policy based High-Availability (PBHA), both asynchronous. In order to get...
7 days ago in IBM i / Storage 0 Submitted

Enhance the CPIAD09, CPIAD0B, and CPI3E34 messages to indicate whether the connection came in an a secure port or a non-secure port

The subject messages are all very similar and are logged to the history log when new connections are made to the system. These messages are very useful to understand the workload for connections to the system. However, there is no ability to deter...
15 minutes ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 0 Submitted

Allow displaying LOB variables during debug without encountering exception

Currently while in debug if I mouse-over a LOB variable to see the value an exception occurs and the program returns to executing. This also happens if I forget to add "_data" to the variable name. Ideally, I'd like to see both the "_len" and "_da...
about 6 hours ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 0 Submitted

Create Db2 service that returns same content as iNav's "TCP/IP Servers"

Most of iNav's functions provide the SQL statement used to return the results. This is not the case for TCP/IP Servers, found under Network / Servers. Please create a Db2 service that returns this information.
about 17 hours ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 0 Submitted

Enhance Password Complexity Rules

Add capability in password system values or QPWDRULES to include passwords may not contain...Any Part of a Users Full nameContext Specific words, such as the name of an application/service/departmentDictionary words in any language
1 day ago in IBM i / Security 0 Submitted

Removal of 4-Core Limit for IBM-i VMs on the S1022

Description: As a forward-thinking organization leveraging IBM-i on the S1022 server, we are consistently seeking ways to enhance performance, optimize resource utilization, and meet our increasing workload demands. In light of this, we submit the...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Install and Upgrade and Licensing 5 Under review

Possibility to use generic message ID's on ON-EXCP section in MONITOR group

It would be very useful to have ability to use generic message ID's e.g CPF0000, CPF9800 in ON-EXCP op-code within MONITOR group. This should be similar to CL's MONMSG functionality in terms of generic message ID's monitoring.
14 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 0 Submitted

Add WHEN-IS-NOT clause to the new SELECT statement

The traditional SELECT/ENDSL allows when a=b and also allows when a <> b. However, the new SELECT/WHEN-IS/ENDSL does not allow a negative comparison, and forces me to go back to the older style. In this shop [and others I have worked in], th...
9 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 0 Submitted