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Improvement to the DSPPGMREF command

The command currently does not generate information about the commands used in a program.The improvement is to include information about this type of objects and be useful when performing some type of forensic analysis on the IBM i
15 days ago in IBM i / Languages - CL (Control Language) 1 Future consideration

Enable RST PATTERN with object type

Sometimes we need to restore only the DIR structure (without *STMF object type) from a saved Ifs's folder (Cmd SAV). Using SUBTREE(*DIR) restore only the firt level of directory. Enabling the command to accept something like: RST DEV('/QSYS.LIB/QG...
23 days ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 1 Future consideration

Relax requirements for using Ds in I/O

The general problem is about the compiler issuing a RNF7595 when I try to use the same Ds (or Likerec Ds) on diffent files sharing the same format and based on the same PF. This is an example: Dcl-f fileA01L keyed usage(*input); Dcl-f fileA02L key...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 4 Future consideration

Provide Cursor Hover Row Highlighting in ACS RUNSQL resultSet

I would like to suggest an enhancement to improve data review and usability within result sets. When a result set is displayed in ACS RUNSQL, it would be highly beneficial to introduce a cursor hover highlight feature. This functionality would: 1....
about 1 month ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Future consideration

IFS_PATH sql scalar function

With all the nice IFS sql functions like IFS_READ and IFS_WRITE it becomes more importent to work with the "path" . I'll suggest a IFS_PATH scalar function to handle the segments of an path: It could be somthing like this: -- Returns the path, fil...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Future consideration

BASH as a SQL service ( SQL scalar function)

Lots of great tooling is available in PASE via bash. It would be appreciated if commands could be executed using a "user defined function" returning a CLOB for the stdout. An implementation can be found here. https://github.com/NielsLiisberg/sql-o...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Future consideration

RDi "BYOE" (Bring-Your-Own-Eclipse) Edition

The idea is, to have RDi as an BYOE (Bring-Your-Own-Eclipse) install, which can be integrated into any existing Eclipse installation (even under Linux). This way, RDi would open up to more developers, especially to developers running Eclipse on Li...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Future consideration

Create Db2 service that returns same content as iNav's "TCP/IP Servers"

Most of iNav's functions provide the SQL statement used to return the results. This is not the case for TCP/IP Servers, found under Network / Servers. Please create a Db2 service that returns this information.
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Future consideration

Allow LIKEDS in parameters defined in SQL UDF or UDTF

Allows ability to work at data structure level, templated, replicating the structure and ability to use eval-corr BIF where applicable to move from one structure to another (output). Simple example: take journal data (JOESD) as input and provide t...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Future consideration

Add WHEN-IS-NOT clause to the new SELECT statement

The traditional SELECT/ENDSL allows when a=b and also allows when a <> b. However, the new SELECT/WHEN-IS/ENDSL does not allow a negative comparison, and forces me to go back to the older style. In this shop [and others I have worked in], th...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 1 Future consideration

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