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My ideas: Application Development

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    Support *IAS to be created on an iASP

    Currently an Integrated Application Server is not suppported on an iASP, For customer wanting to use an Integrated Application Server in an iASP environment this forces them to create it on *SYSBAS which more or less is not in line with the idea b...
    6 months ago in IBM i / Application Development 1 Future consideration

    USEADPAUT as a compilerparameter

    According to Preventing new programs from using adopted authority - IBM Documentation systemvalue steers how new programs get USEADPAUT attribute. If a developer are permitted to set *YES, all new programs will get that attribute and developer mus...
    10 months ago in IBM i / Application Development 6 Future consideration

    Add a flag to the Retrieve Command Definition (QCDRCMDD) API

    We are using the API to get the command definition such as the Parameters with it's keywords and values. However if the command has a choice program, that program is executed. This can cause unexpected things to occur. In one example, the choice p...
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / Application Development 1 Future consideration

    Create an API for Code Coverage SEP

    Getting Code Coverage with a Service Entry Point (SEP) is only possible through interactive processes with RDi. Having the same feature through API would enable to work in a CI/CD pipeline.
    about 2 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 5 Future consideration

    Allow Axis to send multipart/form-data

    This is in reference to ticket/ case number TS015278888. I would like to be able to send multipart/form-data in a http POST request. At the moment it appears that it isn't possible to send different encoded types in a single request. For example, ...
    about 2 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 1 Future consideration

    STRDBG C/C++: ATTR should show type name of structs and classes instead of TYPE=RECORD

    When debugging a C/C++ program and want to check the attributes of a struct or class using the debugger command ATTR it only shows "TYPE = RECORD, LENGTH = 574 BYTES". This information is not enough. Instead of "TYPE = RECORD" ATTR should show the...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 1 Future consideration

    Provide a QteRetrieveModuleViews API that works when NOT in Debug Mode

    No APIs return the DBGVIEW(*LIST | *SOURCE | *ALL | *NONE | *STMT) attribute for programs or embedded *MODULEs except QteRetrieveModuleViews. However it, like all Qte* API are enabled only while the job is in Debug Mode. Please provide this inform...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 2 Future consideration

    Stream file source for UIM objects

    The UIM language has a feature to import a copybook source member, with the .im tag. I would like to see this support IFS paths to a stream file, in the same way that you can with e.g. RPG's /include . This would allow me to compile UIM menus from...
    about 3 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 1 Future consideration

    STRDBG should build the QGPL/QTESxxxxxx *DTAQ with appropriate authority for job QTESDBGHUB to access it.

    When STRDBG is run interactively, it creates a data queue QGPL/QTESxxxxxx to communicate with the QTESDBGHUB job (the server process for the graphical debugger). This is created with the current job user as the owner, and *PUBLIC is granted the de...
    over 3 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 1 Future consideration

    Remove SEU product offering

    With the availability of numerous modern development platforms, SEU should be removed from the next release of IBM i. This would help facilitate the acceptance of modern practices and tooling.
    almost 4 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 7 Future consideration

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