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IBM i

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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

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 7 hours ago in IBM i / Security 0 Submitted

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 ...
1 day 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.
1 day ago in IBM i / Performance Tools 0 Submitted

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...
3 days ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 0 Submitted

SQL service: add functionality to view application definitions

Hello, we have this great table function CERTIFICATE_INFO table function - IBM Documentation we were wondering recently - would it be possible to to have a functionality to retrieve info on Application definitions / Services existing in DCM. Examp...
12 days ago in IBM i / System Management 0 Submitted

Add Column of Configured Maximum number of jobs on Active Prestart Jobs

In the latest TRs, V7R4 TR11 in our case have been included some additional columns that also included the Peak in Use! It would be very usefull to also have an additional column with the configured Maximum number of jobs per PJ, so we could easil...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 1 Submitted

Ability to specify objects to OMIT/Ignore from the admin domain

While the administrative domain offers the ability to manually add resources into it, and provides capabilities such as ADDCADMRE that has wildcards and omits, one of the powerful features of the administrative domain are the automation policies: ...
13 days ago in IBM i / PowerHA 0 Submitted

Free Tier for IBM i (AS/400) to Support Education, Ecosystem Growth, and Promote IBM Cloud

Note: This proposal for IBM i addresses the exact same core issue of lacking a free tier for accessibility, education, and community growth as outlined for AIX in idea AIX-I-802: https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/AIX-I-802. Both platforms suffer from th...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Core OS 1 Submitted

SQL service to manage certificate store (import certificate to store)

Hello, I recently just been working on some certificates projects and I thought it would be a great use to have a SQL functionality to import certificate to a store. Furthermore It would be nice to have a possibility to assign or replace certifica...
12 days ago in IBM i / System Management 1 Submitted