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My votes: IBM i

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    Improve message of CPF5222 on CHGPWD

    When changing a password upon expiration or during CHGPWD execution, if a blank or non-alphabetic character is entered in the current/new password field, the message CPF5222 'Name is not correct' is displayed. However, this message does not clearl...
    about 1 month ago in IBM i / Security 2 Future consideration

    RTVCLSRC in SRCSTMF

    When you retrieve the source of a CLP or CLLE program you must indicate a source file, for example: QCLSRC, but it is impossible to indicate the IFS example: /HOME/USER/CLLE/ . The idea is therefore to add the SRCSTMF() parameter to the RTVCLSRC c...
    about 2 months ago in IBM i / Languages - CL (Control Language) 1 Future consideration

    Add Support for HTTP/2 to SQL HTTP Functions

    Currently looks like SQL HTTP Functions on support HTTP/1.1. I have a Vendor that is requestions that HTTP/2 be used with API.
    about 1 month ago in IBM i / Web Serving 1 Future consideration

    New *EMPTY constant

    Follow-up on https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/IBMI-I-4107. Instead of using *blank / *blanks, when one wants to return an empty string from a function, instead of writing: return ''; One could write: return *empty;
    about 2 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 1 Future consideration

    Run SQL Scripts: Remove redundant variable prompting

    When prompting for multiple substitution variables with same name, only prompt once.
    3 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 5 Future consideration

    OVERRIDE_INFO for any job

    At present OVERRIDE_INFO will only return results for the current job. Please allow it to return the same information for any job passed to it. It could be a Table function of the current view. Pass to it a fully qualified job name, or '*' for the...
    about 2 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Future consideration

    Add SQL functions to return elements from qualified job name

    When we use the IBM i Services or SQL PL we often have a qualified job name, e.g. in the global variable QSYS2.JOB_NAME. Many of the services have been expanded with the elements of the job name in addition to the qualified job name. i.e. job name...
    20 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Future consideration

    Make SQL function URL_ENCODE support RFC3986

    RFC3986 dictates that any space in a URL must be converted to "%20". However, when we run "values URL_ENCODE(' Hello there!'), we get "Hello+there%21" with the plus sign instead of "%20". The same is output from URLENCODE in SYSTOOLS. It seems lik...
    20 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Future consideration

    Add an HTTP status code for SQL not found

    When deploying a REST web service based on SQL queries, it is possible to specify an HTTP status code for success (200 by default) and another for error (500 by default). However, when reading datas by an SQL select and a WHERE clause (e.g., sele...
    5 months ago in IBM i / Web Serving 3 Future consideration

    New QSYS2 Table function : QSYS2.WRITER_INFO

    Hello, I wanted to retrieve the list of all the writers present on my client's machine.I tried with the SQL table : QSYS2.OBJECT_STATISTICS.SELECT * FROM TABLE (QSYS2.OBJECT_STATISTICS('*ALL ','*DEVD')) WHERE OBJATTRIBUTE in ('PRTLAN','PRTVRT','PR...
    3 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Future consideration

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