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My ideas: IBM i

add pattern matching to RPG

It would be nice to have a terse and compact way to assign a value to a variable based on one or multiple conditions. Many languages have a form of matching pattern to accomplish this. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.6.0?topic=expressions-case-exp...
3 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG Submitted

Have an early indicator when a save is approaching near system limits

​The system i currently lacks a proactive warning for backup job approaching backup limits. Without proactive alerting, unexpected backup outage would occur.
4 days ago in IBM i / Save and Restore Submitted

Add a new category under IBM Navigator for i, with the ability to plug in user-defined SQL for result sets and charts, similar to way system info is presented.

This idea would allow system admins to build up a list and provide useful site-specific, SQL inquiry/review capability for their users, via custom SQL queries. Whether these are configured in the IFS or some other place, is fine. But it should be ...
11 days ago in IBM i / Web Serving Submitted

CREATE VIEW without dependency

We have a need to create views that might span multiple schemas (aka. libraries) and if you create a view that does this, you cannot clear any of the libraries because of the dependency. My work around has been to create a user defined table funct...
13 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i Submitted

Add the Prestart Job Reuse count to the job data in Collection Services

QSYS2.Active_Job_Info returns the prestart job reuse count. However, to review this you must use DETAILED_INFO => 'ALL' and you can only get a real-time snapshot. I would like this metric added to the Collection Services job data so this can be...
18 days ago in IBM i / Performance Tools Submitted

"With" opcode for RPG nested data structures, like VB's "With...End With" statement.

Referencing deeply nested data structure variables is a chore in RPG and the RPG code becomes verbose. Visual Basic has a statement "With ... End With" that "Executes a series of statements that repeatedly refer to a single object or structure so ...
19 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG Submitted

Add the option to log the deletion of MTIs.

Recently I discovered that next to a plan being removed from the Plan Cache, there is another reason why an MTI can be deleted. There is a connection between a MTIs and a Plans in Plan Cache. so when a Plan is removed/pruned from the Plan Cache th...
19 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i Submitted

Adding the option to specify a Sender address to the command SNDSMTPEMM

For years now IBM i lacking a command to specify the sender mail address in a simple manner. Yes there is an API but this is too complicated for the average IBM i developer. Would it not be very convenient if the current SNDSMTPEMM is enhanced to ...
19 days ago in IBM i / Core OS Submitted

Add options to indicate the trace output file and options for HTTP functions

Calling axiscAxisStartTrace("/tmp/axis.log":*NULL) followed by QSYS2.HTTP_GET or QSYS2.HTTP_POST via embedded SQL does not work when the http functions run in the default activation group but the service program for the axiscAxisStartTrace() runs ...
20 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i Submitted

Get the navigator for i to the client how we use it in the IBM i access for windows.

Some customer dont let or permit the access to IBM i navigator for i for permission of firewall, security or compliance etc..... a good better could be get back the manage of the navigator to include in the IACS Solutions, and use a another port t...
22 days ago in IBM i / System Management Submitted

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