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Optimizing SEU Usage: Balancing System Administration Needs and Developer Progress

The justification for keeping SEU in the operating system is that system administrators need it to modify CL programs while in restricted state. However, maintaining SEU hinders developers from transitioning to modern, more efficient development t...
3 months ago in IBM i / Application Development 2 Functionality already exists

RSE API's - swagger or yaml file

Hello, Would it be possible to have the swagger or a yaml file available? This would facilitate the integration of calls to these APIs in external software capable of scripting and automating certain tasks.
7 months ago in IBM i / Web Serving 1 Functionality already exists

Enhance the Query Supervisor for temporary storage thresholds to also apply to the *DATABASE temporary storage buckets

We have had several rogue queries that used very large amounts of temporary storage. We have query supervisor thresholds in place, but it did not alert us because the temporary storage was not part of the job itself, but rather the database tempor...
2 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Functionality already exists

Insert scripts from custom examples

Hello, after installing version 1.1.9.7, I can't insert my custom scripts; In the previous version there was a button that did that. Is there a new option to do so? Thanks in advance
about 2 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Functionality already exists

WRKFCNUSG Auditing

It would be nice if any adds/changes/deletes that occur when using the WRKFCNUSG process would be tracking in the Security Audit Journal for the logical replication apps can keep the authorities in sync between SRC and TGT replication sets.
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Security 1 Functionality already exists

Returning a JSON in a string (RPG FREE) without back slash for an API REST

When i use JSON_OBJECT into a VARCHAR who is returning from an API rest the values of KEY contains back slash before quotation marks. When i use a DS the result is OK but if i want to use JSON SQL functions i have the above problem. Is it possible...
3 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 4 Functionality already exists

%elem on enum

I would like to define the size of my dim array depending on the number of elements of my enum. Example : dcl-enum my_enum qualified; value1 const('1'); value2 const('2'); end-enum; dcl-s my_array char(1) dim(%elem(my_enum));
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 1 Functionality already exists

Audit which CL commands was executed using the QCMDEXC Procedure or scalar function.

Today if you execute a CL command inside of a QCMDEXC scalar function or QCMDEXC procedure, they are not audited. It would be extreamly helpful especially from a security perspective to be able to audit the commands that are executed that way.
6 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Functionality already exists

Selection the length of server power cables

The #6577 is described on the below manual that manufacturing select length when a rack is configured in the factory.https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/power10?topic=pr-supported-power-cordsCustomer said that in spite of the connection for servers to PDU...
over 1 year ago in Power Systems Design 0 Functionality already exists

reconnect buttom in RSS of ACS

Workaround for lost connection issue
5 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Functionality already exists

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