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Application Development

ACS Run SQL Scripts - Add capability to customize colors

I cannot see the light green that is used for comments. It would be nice to have the capability to specify the color for the various parts in the editor.
27 days ago in IBM i / Application Development Submitted

Automatically truncate Integrated WebService input payload if it is more than the defined length in the Rest service contract.

we have observed that the IWS REST service fails when an input payload parameter exceeds the defined length. Is there a way to configure IWS to automatically truncate the input if it exceeds the specified length? The request is to truncate the par...
28 days ago in IBM i / Application Development Submitted

Add better null support for DATA-INTO and DATA-GEN

When dealing with REST API's communicating with other platform must null handling be simpler, for both DATA-GEN and DATA-INTO. Current: This variable contains a json object with two key pairs "name" and "born". Both have the value null and are dif...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Application Development Submitted

Always update current user in PSDS after profile swap.

Swapping user profiles [1] is a common technique for CGi programs and other service oriented programs to make sure the program runs under the right profile. This will change the CURRENT USER in the job. The CURRENT USER is reflected in the PSDS at...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Application Development Not under consideration

Lock screen for PC with your finger print if it's remote

This idea is about PCs that are controlled remotely, the person that has the PC synced to their phone will have a timer on PC and will need the owners finger print or digital finger print to unlock by person or from anywhere. This is for privacy
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Application Development 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...
3 months ago in IBM i / Application Development Submitted

New QCALENDAR API.

The new QCALENDAR API can be called when the user presses F4 on a date-type field and allows them to select a date.
3 months ago in IBM i / Application Development Submitted

Add the autostart option to all IBM i Debug Servers and Debug Service

Currently in Navigator for i the TCP/IP server System Debugger consist of 3 instances the System Debugger, IDE Debugger Server and Debug Service. Unfortunately the Debug server is not available in the Navigator for i TCP/IP Configuration Propertie...
5 months ago in IBM i / Application Development Submitted

Subfile size 32767 rows.

Because the data to display are much more than in the past, we need to extend the maximum number of records allowed from 9999 to 32767.
6 months ago in IBM i / Application Development Submitted

Provide an API to extract the DSPPGMREF information

There currently is no API to get the output of DSPPFMREF which makes extracting and development of tools cumbersome. There's *OUTFILE support but this is not flexible enough as it requires an intermediate step that complicates things like building...
6 months ago in IBM i / Application Development Submitted

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