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This enhancement was delivered in spring 2021 with IBM i 7.4 PTF Group level 13 and IBM i 7.3 PTF Group level 24.
The USER_INFO and USER_INFO_BASIC views have a new column, NETSERVER_DISABLED, that indicates whether the profile is disabled for IBM i NetServer.
Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
Brand - Servers and Systems Software
Product family - Power Systems
Product - IBM i
Component - Db2 for i
Operating system - IBM i
Source - COMMON
For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
Brand - Servers and Systems Software
Product family - Power Systems
Product - IBM i
Component - System Management
Operating system - IBM i
Source - COMMON
IBM understands this request and will consider it for a future code update, though no commitment is made or implied.
The CAAC has reviewed this requirement and recommends that IBM view this as a high priority requirement that is important to be addressed. A quick summary of disabled users would be very beneficial without needing to be a programmer to figure it out, as well as a way to enable users -- this is needed for System Admins.
Background: The COMMON Americas Advisory Council (CAAC) members have a broad range of experience in working with small and medium-sized IBM i customers. CAAC has a key role in working with IBM i development to help assess the value and impact of individual RFEs on the broader IBM i community, and has therefore reviewed your RFE.
For more information about CAAC, see www.common.org/caac
For more details about CAAC's role with RFEs, see http://www.ibmsystemsmag.com/Blogs/i-Can/May-2017/COMMON-Americas-Advisory-Council-%28CAAC%29-and-RFEs/
Nancy Uthke-Schmucki - CAAC Program Manager
The COMMON Europe Advisory Council (CEAC) has reviewed this requirement and recommends that IBM view this as a MEDIUM priority requirement that should be addressed.
Background: The CEAC members have a broad range of experience in working with small and medium-sized IBM i customers. CEAC has a crucial role in working with IBM i development to help assess the value and impact of individual RFEs on the broader IBM i community and has therefore reviewed your RFE.
To find out how CEAC help to shape the future of IBM i, see CEAC @ ibm.biz/BdYSYj and the article "The Five Hottest IBM i RFEs Of The Quarter" at ibm.biz/BdYSZT
Therese Eaton – CEAC Program Manager, IBM
Another option is to install the "GO NETS" tool from IBM. I havn´t used it for years, but I believe you could see disabled NetServer users in the tool and also the possibility to enable them.
The tool exist in the QUSRTOOL library and instruction have to unpack and restore the tool: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/manage-ibm-i-netserver-without-navigator-go-nets
Great Idea.
And if I may add - also a service to enable a given user
Since the API is available you can develop this yourself.
You can't expect from IBM to write a service for every single API that exists !?
I prefer that IBM invests its time into things that we currently can't write due to lack of API's.
Hello Steve,
The option to monitor this is already available by a watch or a monitor in Navigator for i. The message ID to monitor for is CPIB682. IBM has created a KB item for the watch https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/automatically-re-enable-disabled-ibm-i-netserver-user-profile.
So by using the IBM i services QSYS2.HISTORY_LOG_INFO UDTF to query the history log for CPIB682 or by using QSYS2.MESSAGE_QUEUE_INFO View to do the same for QSYSOPR, one could say that the service you are asking for is already there.
Greetings Rudi
Greetings Rudi