What's new for IBM i 7.2

Read about new or significantly changed information for the Application programming interfaces topic collection.

You can find a list of new APIs or changed APIs for this release using the API finder.

What's new as of October 2015

New APIs have been created, including Retrieve Bulk MIB Objects Using SNMP Version 3 (snmpGetbulk_v3()), Retrieve Space User Data (QbnRetrieveSpaceUserData), and Register Activation Group Exit Procedure Last (CEE4RAGEL).

Various new keys have been added to QGYOLJOB, QMHLJOBL, and QGYOLJBL.

Miscellaneous minor technical updates were also made to a few APIs.

What's new as of October 2014

Several APIs have been updated to support Row and column access controls.

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To find other information about what's new or changed this release, see the Memo to users.