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add pattern matching to RPG

It would be nice to have a terse and compact way to assign a value to a variable based on one or multiple conditions. Many languages have a form of matching pattern to accomplish this. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.6.0?topic=expressions-case-exp...
about 11 hours ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG Submitted

Operating System Level automatic refresh in HMC Gui

Because every time we update AIX lpars to a newer level, there is a difference on the HMC. The HMC still reflects the AIX version prior to the AIX update. So we need to update the HMC information manually everytime with osrefresh hmc command param...
about 11 hours ago in Hardware Management Console Submitted

make IBMi ACS console connection faster

This one would be useful for all IBMi customer using HMC as console. When you start a console on IBMi. You need to use IBM ACS. From that software you contact the HMC to create console. Contact the HMC is fast. Then you get the list of servers you...
1 day ago in Hardware Management Console Submitted

Have an early indicator when a save is approaching near system limits

​The system i currently lacks a proactive warning for backup job approaching backup limits. Without proactive alerting, unexpected backup outage would occur.
2 days ago in IBM i / Save and Restore Submitted

add CLI option to GUI-feature : "Schedule-management" jobs

setting up "Schedule-management" jobs is currently a GUI-only feature. (V11R1M1111) add a CLI functionality to this feature. and a clear logging/messaging for active or expired schedule jobs.
about 1 month ago in Hardware Management Console Submitted

Adding the option to specify a Sender address to the command SNDSMTPEMM

For years now IBM i lacking a command to specify the sender mail address in a simple manner. Yes there is an API but this is too complicated for the average IBM i developer. Would it not be very convenient if the current SNDSMTPEMM is enhanced to ...
17 days ago in IBM i / Core OS Submitted

Modify VIOS configuration of HOST while managed by PowerVC

It would be helpful if a customer could deallocate a VIOS Server from a managed host in PowerVC without need to remove the host and all lpars from PowerVC management.
4 days ago in PowerVC Submitted

IBM i: Add a new system value so we can enable to create automatically $HOME directory on User Profile creation

Today we use SSH, SFTP and VSCode more often than in the past, but when creating a new user profile the /home/USERID directory is not created. Please, add a new system value to enable automatic creation and select the $HOME base directory, in case...
29 days ago in IBM i / Security Submitted

Allow the use of FQDNs for ntp service "allow by" definition

In version 11 of the HMC GUI, when configuring the use of ntp services, the options are Deny, Allow All and Allow by IP address. NIST strongly recommends NOT hard coding the IP address when defining the ntp server. They strongly recommend the use ...
3 days ago in Hardware Management Console 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...
2 months ago in Hardware Management Console Submitted

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