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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

    NIM client to allow you to specify the IP address to use for NIM configuration, and support multiple IP addresses on an interface

    Currently NIM only allows you to specify the network interface when running 'niminit', not the IP address on that interface. This legacy design was OK until the recent NIM SSL security fixes - where NIM is now making assumptions to use the first I...
    3 days ago in AIX 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

    Add support for signed certificate installation for PowerVC Appliance

    PowerVC customers need to provide a signed certificate for accessing PowerVC UI, PowerVC Appliance does not provide a feature to import the customer signed certificates This can be manually circumvented by engaging support to PESH to install, howe...
    about 1 hour ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

    Enable scheduling automatic Backup via PowerVC Web UI

    Taking automatic Backups of PowerVC ensures that in worst-case szenarios the Company is able to redeploy PowerVC with minimal time & reconfiguration effort. In previous Versions admins had the functionality to configure automatic backup schedu...
    1 day ago in PowerVC 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

    upgrade HMC service-management-panel - dump-panel - to add IBM-support-case-no when calling-home a dump

    It will ease up work with HMC-GUI to have an option to add the IBM-Support-case-no. to a dump-file when choosing " call-home dump ". This will give IBM-ECUREP the feature to right place the uploaded dump-file to the correct IBM-support-case unless...
    27 days ago in Hardware Management Console 2 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

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