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IBM i

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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 ...
3 months ago in IBM i / System Management 2 Submitted

Allow for Synchronous Policy Based Replication (PBR) on IBM Storwize

With the recent version of IBM Storwize, metro mirror - synchronous replication - is no longer available for IBM i. This version allows for policy based replication (PBR) or policy based High-Availability (PBHA), both asynchronous. In order to get...
6 days ago in IBM i / Storage 0 Submitted

Enhance Password Complexity Rules

Add capability in password system values or QPWDRULES to include passwords may not contain...Any Part of a Users Full nameContext Specific words, such as the name of an application/service/departmentDictionary words in any language
about 12 hours ago in IBM i / Security 0 Submitted

Possibility to use generic message ID's on ON-EXCP section in MONITOR group

It would be very useful to have ability to use generic message ID's e.g CPF0000, CPF9800 in ON-EXCP op-code within MONITOR group. This should be similar to CL's MONMSG functionality in terms of generic message ID's monitoring.
14 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 0 Submitted

Add WHEN-IS-NOT clause to the new SELECT statement

The traditional SELECT/ENDSL allows when a=b and also allows when a <> b. However, the new SELECT/WHEN-IS/ENDSL does not allow a negative comparison, and forces me to go back to the older style. In this shop [and others I have worked in], th...
8 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 0 Submitted

Add user to SEP parameter so we can target another users job with that SEP

With the recent release of SEP support for Merlin and VS Code, it seems that they made it just use the user you connected to the IBM i with. In my product, we rarely (dare I say never) want to set an SEP on our current user. We need to 'catch' the...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Application Development 1 Submitted

Enable Virtual Serial Number (VSN) for Shared Processor Pool (SPP)

As currently defined, a Virtual Serial Number (VSN) can only be used once for a single LPAR, with cores fully assigned. This approach significantly limits flexibility. For example, consider a scenario with three LPARs, each assigned 0.4 cores. The...
16 days ago in IBM i / Hardware 0 Submitted

Provide ibmi-oss Python Versions greater than 3.9, required for Ansible Control Nodes >= 2.16 on the IBM i

Ansible-Core 2.15 went out of support on 11/2024.The newer levels of Ansible-Core, >= 2.16, require either Python 3.10, 3.11, 3.12 or greater in order to run on the IBM i as a control node.See this link:=========================================...
15 days ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 0 Submitted

Compiler may notice a missing Ctl-Opt Main() keyword

When the main() keyword in RPG is missing the compiler assumes RPG cycle logic, even if there is not a single C-spec outside a procedure available and all F-specs are coded with UsrOpn. When you call the program it runs at _QRNP_PEP_... and does n...
30 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 0 Submitted

Allow to define local procedures within a procedure.

Currently you can achieve some kind of encapsulation by defining subroutines inside a procedure. It would be nice to change those subroutines into "local" --or private-- procedures.
9 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 0 Submitted