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Application Development

AI-Powered Business Rule Change Simulation and Golden-Behavior Validation for IBM i Applications

I propose adding an AI-Powered Business Rule Change Simulation and Golden-Behavior Validation capability for IBM i applications to help development teams verify that application changes preserve intended business behavior while enabling controlled...
3 days ago in IBM i / Application Development Submitted

Avoid HTTP server down time for certificate renewal

With the looming prospect of certificate renewal every 47 days after 15 March 2029 in mind, it will become a burden if this requires an HTTP to be restarted. This is about adding functionality to "refresh" a certificate when it is being renewed, t...
5 months ago in IBM i / Application Development Submitted

Re-introduce the "No Conversion" file type option in ACS Data Transfer (Feature parity with IBM i Access for Windows).

Business Need: Our accounting department relies on generating fixed-width text files for banking transactions (e.g.,tax transfers). These bank files have strict formatting requirements: they must maintain fixed lengths, contain absolutely no delim...
10 days ago in IBM i / Application Development Submitted

Enhance ACS SQL Scripts to add filter (or find) for text in name or text inside .SQL files

Developers often have to locate something they previously wrote. When opening a PC file, you have the ability to select a folder but not the ability to filter names or find text in files under that folder. It would be helpful to have Filter (as is...
3 months ago in IBM i / Application Development Submitted

Create a "Code for IBM i" Extension for JetBrains PyCharm (similar to the one for Visual Studio Code)

Currently, the "Code for IBM i" extension is available for Visual Studio Code, enabling developers working on IBM i to benefit from a modern and integrated development environment. However, many developers also use JetBrains PyCharm for their proj...
10 months ago in IBM i / Application Development Submitted

Add user to SEP parameter so we can target another users job with that SEP

With the recent release of SEP support for Merlin and VS Code, it seems that they made it just use the user you connected to the IBM i with. In my product, we rarely (dare I say never) want to set an SEP on our current user. We need to 'catch' the...
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / Application Development Submitted

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.
5 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...
10 months ago in IBM i / Application Development Submitted

Allow IBM ACE to support configurable sequential or batch startup of Integration Servers (DataFlowEngine processes) during node startup

In environments hosting a large number of IBM ACE Integration Servers on a single host, all DataFlowEngine processes currently start concurrently when an ACE Node starts. This can cause temporary CPU and memory spikes during server reboot or servi...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Application Development Submitted

SRCSTMF parameter for CRTDSPF

As we are using more and more modern ways and tools to develop our software, it really hurts that one has to copy DDS sources to a member in a temporary source physical file in order to be able to create a display file. I’m pretty sure that it wou...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Application Development Submitted

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