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single QR code or a centralized MFA configuration - All PVC Servers

At the customer environment, there are currently 17 PVC Applications in use. As part of the security enhancement plan, we are in the process of implementing Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) for all these applications. As per the current understan...
about 2 hours ago in PowerVC 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...
2 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 0 Submitted

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...
3 days ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Submitted

Add ability to capture ACS OSS Package Upgrade log

As part of my team's patch management to our customers, we have to log dealts and resulting levels for all updates to IBM OSS components, we do this on multiple LPARs on multi servers. The Package upgrade dialog generated by ACS OSS tool is ideal ...
4 days ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Submitted

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...
5 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Submitted

Support Volumegroup snapshots in PowerVC

Since SVC support Volumegroup based snapshots, please implement this feature in PowerVC.
6 days ago in PowerVC 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...
9 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 0 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...
9 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 0 Submitted

Add 'Jobs Using Connection' details to QSYS2.NETSTAT_INFO

Adding 'Jobs Using Connection' details to QSYS2.NETSTAT_INFO would provide valuable information when investigating connectivity issues. It would also bring the QSYS2.NETSTAT_INFO service inline with the information provided via the NETSTAT *CNN co...
9 days ago in IBM i / Core OS 1 Submitted

Advanced Job Scheduler - Increase job group size from 99 to 999 (# of jobs included in a group) (or at least more than 100)

We currently use a non-IBM job scheduler that frequently has over 100 jobs in the job grouping. We would like to use AJS to replace this product, but one of the limiting factors is only 99 jobs are allowed in a group.
12 days ago in IBM i / System Management 0 Submitted

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