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IBM i

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SQL function for CVE currency

Customers need a way to audit compliance with IBM i CVEs. Each CVE is published with a corresponding patch from IBM. A SQL function similar to PTF currency will give customers the ability to check the patch status for all CVEs published by IBM. Th...
about 22 hours ago in IBM i / Security 0 Submitted

Send backup volumes to two different COS buckets without having to double the space needed.

Good-morning, Use case: Customer is doing backups with BRMS, and they want to have the backup volumes in two different buckets, one bucket in Madrid and the other in Frankfurt. The only way to do this at the moment is to use DUPMEDBRM, but with DU...
1 day ago in IBM i / BRMS 3 Under review
136 VOTE

Link Aggregation NIC adapter replacement without service interruption

When replacing a NIC that is part of an Ethernet Link Aggregation configuration, it is necessary to temporarily disable the Line description on IBMi OS. As a result, the IP address is deactivated, making a service outage unavoidable.Although Power...
2 months ago in IBM i / Networking 3 Submitted
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 ...
8 months ago in IBM i / Storage 4 Not under consideration

the QteRetrieveModuleViews api miss module name and library

the QteRetrieveModuleViews api, which is supposed to returns information on each module of the program, does not provide the object name of each module (that is to say, the library and the module name) but only the internal name. the case is for ...
2 days ago in IBM i / Other 0 Submitted

Change Y axis Graph History

It whould be usefull if the Y axis can be set to 100% in performance Graph History in IBM Navigator for i. There is a tab what should do the but this button does not respond to the input.
2 days ago in IBM i / Performance Tools 0 Submitted

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 ...
16 days ago in IBM i / Security 1 Not under consideration

get full details about 5250 fields via ehllapi of ACS

the ehllapi of ACS allows a client application under windows to query the attributes of each field of a 52250 screen. This api returns some information, not all. for example, the auto-enter-field status is not returned. This put my client applic...
4 days ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 0 Submitted

Add a field in the SYSTEM_STATUS* SQL services that shows the whether the LPARs Attention LED is on or off.

In the current services:SYSTEM_STATUS view, SYSTEM_STATUS_INFO view and SYSTEM_STATUS table function. The ATTENTION_LIGHT light column only shows whether the SRC panel has a SRC in it. The manuals were recently updated to reflect the correct defin...
7 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Future consideration

Integrate SAML and/or OIDC authentication options for IBMi (5250/Navigator/IFS/Printer Output/SSH)

Many businesses are increasingly demanding that standard authentication processes are adhered to for all applications/servers within their environment. Whether we agree with that approach or not, there is extraordinary pressure to fit IBMi into th...
29 days ago in IBM i / Security 2 Under review

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