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IBM i

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    Introduce named parameters at program and procedure calls

    When calling SQL stored procedures and User defined Functions parameters can be passed with an argument list (i.e. Naming the parameter and assigning the parameter value to the named parameter). Would be great if we could call (prototyped) Program...
    6 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 7 Submitted

    Have the host in the APis response

    Hello,In RSEAPIs, you can connect to a host partition. Would it be possible to have at the start of jsons in response to operations the host on which the action took place : {"host": "localhost", ....} or {"host": "MyHost", ....} Depending on the ...
    2 days ago in IBM i / Web Serving 0 Submitted

    Allow MONMSG RMV(*YES)

    When running CL programs, the joblog contains a lot of messages that are not relevant to the process. For example consider this code snippet below which leaves message cpf9801 in the joblog. On the other hand, `monmsg cpf9801 exec(do) RMV(*YES)` w...
    1 day ago in IBM i / Application Development 0 Submitted

    Automate add or update of Certificate instead of manual process in DCM

    A new process is being implemented reducing the number of days a certificate will be valid. Apple, Google and others are already implementing this. https://www.digicert.com/blog/tls-certificate-lifetimes-will-officially-reduce-to-47-days In 2 week...
    1 day ago in IBM i / Security 1 Submitted

    enable interactive user and password authentication on sftp client

    It would be useful to have the same possibility that is present on all other Windows and Linux systems.
    8 days ago in IBM i / Networking 0 Submitted

    Allow calculated values for CONST and INZ

    Currently, only hard-coded values ​​are allowed when initializing a variable or constant. dcl-c BIT31_EXC_SENT const(2147483648) ; dcl-c BIT31_EXC_SENT const(x'80000000') ; or dcl-s BIT31_EXC_SENT uns(10) inz(2147483648) const ; dcl-s BIT31_EXC_SE...
    8 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 0 Submitted

    Fixentral Downloads of Machine Code updates are limited to 25 per day, Automate request to download beyond the stated limit

    As an outsourcing provider managing numerous customers and hundreds of LPARs, we frequently encounter challenges due to the current restriction of 25 machine code downloads per day.This limitation significantly impacts our ability to perform essen...
    3 months ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 34 Under review

    Include trial license with RDi 9.9

    Please add the temporary trial license to RDi 9.9. I had a fully licensed copy of RDi 9.8 (permanent licenses are handled by my client). I upgraded to 9.9, but because there is no license included, my RDi 9.9 is useless. Nothing works without the ...
    38 minutes ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 0 Submitted

    Provide a fast way to list PRINTER FILE objects

    There is currently no scalable, programmatic interface dedicated to retrieving a list of printer files (*PRTF) on IBM i. To obtain a list of printer files today, applications must use any of these interfaces: DSPFD OUTPUT(*OUTFILE), QGYOLOBJ, QSYS...
    2 days ago in IBM i / Print 1 Submitted

    Improve BRMS Drive Allocation Logic for Multi‑Drive Tape Libraries

    When two BRMS control groups start at (or near) the same time and share the same tape library, both backup jobs may attempt to use the same drive. Even if multiple drives are available in the library, BRMS can assign only one drive to both jobs, c...
    2 days ago in IBM i / BRMS 0 Submitted

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