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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 ...
about 1 year ago in IBM i / Storage 4 Not under consideration

Add ability to open SQL scripts from github

Hello, We store a lot of our custom SQL scripts in Github nowadays, we would find it useful to have ability to open scripts from Github repository. Run SQL Scripts > File > Open > PC File / IFS Stream File / Source Physical File + Github ...
16 days ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

Allow the evaluation of RPG expressions as "pseudo host variables" in EXEC SQL statements

The idea is, to allow the evaluation of RPG expressions (including the call of %BIFs and procedures) inside an EXEC SQL statement as "pseudo-host-variables". The syntax could be like that: exec sql select count(*) into :myCounter from mytable w...
3 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Not under consideration
309 VOTE

*ESCAPE messages for SAVLIB

We have received MONMSG for CPF3795 in every SAVLIB running in our CL program: https://ecurep.mainz.de.ibm.com/rest/download/28061%2C100%2C838/2018-04-06/28061.100.838.SOURCE.txt?astext=true&fileSize=83568 But, when CPF3795 is reported saving ...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 5 Not under consideration

Frame P8 support on HMC V11

Many customers still have P8 frames in service because it's the latest version supporting AIX 5.3. Lot of infrastructures have P8 and P10 frames connected to the same HMC. The refusal to support P8 frames requires segmenting the management of the...
3 months ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Not under consideration
147 VOTE

Concurrent Maintenance for Ethernet adapter component SFP - FRU for SFP request

Please provide concurrent maintenance using own FRU = Field Replaceable Unit number for adapter component SFP for ethernet adapter EN0J, EL38, EN0H, EL56, CCIN for all is 2B93, vendor Emulex / Broadcom. Currently a FRU number is available for whol...
about 5 years ago in Power Systems Design 7 Not under consideration

RACF should support dynamic altering the RACF database configuration

Currently, the names of the RACF databases are defined in the SYS1.PARMLIB(IRRPRM00) parmlib member. Those dataset names become constant for the IPL. They can not be changed without SYSPLEX-wide IPLs which would cause the customer massive outages ...
6 months ago in IBM i / Security 1 Not under consideration

provide QSYSINC RPG includes in full free format

Today, we have QSYSINC RPG includes members in fixed format. More and more applications are nowadays written using full free format. Even IBM has a strong focus on using this format. Therefore, it would be consistent to have QSYSINC RPG includes m...
5 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 2 Not under consideration

Add a "Last Active" Timestamp or number of elapsed seconds since the last activity for a Job to WRKACTJOB and QUSRJOBI API

While we know that interactive jobs have an inactivity timer on them, the Work Active Jobs (WRKACTJOB) and the corresponding API do not provide us with information on how long a user hasn't had an interaction with the 5250 session or a batch job h...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 1 Not under consideration

Enable options(*exact) for indicators.

I am the developer of RPGUNIT and recently I added procedure assertEqual() to it. This procedure handles all data types, because it uses the OVERLOAD keyword for delegating the call to the procedure that is in charge for the data type. dcl-pr asse...
about 1 year ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 3 Not under consideration

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