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Add the ability to generate an ERD (Entity Relationship Diagram) to IBM i Access Client Solutions (iACS)

Deprecated Navigator used to have the ability to generate database maps and I'd like this ability back in iACS. Just had a new person start this week and trying to get them started and this lacks. Not a good first impression on their exposure to I...
3 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i Functionality already exists

Add to OBJECT_STATISTICS a column to inform us if a library is an IBM library

A new column would be added to OBJECT_STATISTICS called something like IBM_OBJECT. A value of 'YES' or 'NO' would be used.At present there does not appear to be an easy or definitive way of determining if a library belongs to IBM.SELECT OBJNAMEFRO...
2 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i Functionality already exists

Provide an up to date version of ICU - International Components for Unicode (5770SS1 - Option 39)

Having to deal more and more with Unicode and some applications that are still restricted to EBCDIC codepages, I was looking at the ICU library but found out that the most recent version on IBM is 4.0 which dates from 2009 (more as 15 years old) ?...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Core OS Functionality already exists

SMBC file systems via automountd

We would like to mount smb filesystems automatically via automountd. IBM support confirmed that the mount via automountd it is not yet implemented.It is only possible to do a manual mount for smbc which is not very practical. We don't want to crea...
over 1 year ago in AIX Functionality already exists

Rust language that has become an essential language for UNIX based products. Many IBMi & AIX companies should have the ability to compile Rust on IBM i PASE and on AIX.

IBM is distributing the ClamAV open source antivirus as part of the AIX but ClamAV has a new release that is based on Rust (software language). Rust has become an essential language for UNIX based products. So many IBMi & AIX companies should ...
about 4 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE Functionality already exists

Support LOB (CLOB, BLOB, DBCLOB) natively in RPG IV

Today to access a LOB column (field) in RPG IV, we need to have the source type as SQLRPGLE and declare it using an SQL keyword: DCL-S MYCLOB SQLTYPE(CLOB:1000); I am requesting that IBM add native LOB support for variable declarations in RPG IV, ...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG Functionality already exists

Bring the Rust programming language to IBM i PASE

More and more open source packages depend on Rust so we would like to see the Rust language available on IBM i.
almost 3 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE Functionality already exists

Made a service for SQLPACKAGE in embedded SQL

Creation of a SQL service that allows analyzing the SQLPACKAGES included in Programs that contain embedded SQL. Like the SQLPACKAGES service that only includes those generated for ODBC. Some of this information is visible in PRTSQLINF, which gener...
7 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i Functionality already exists

Stack Column Headings in RUNSQL Scripts output ResultSet

Today the 3-component database "Column Headings" are stored a 3, 20-byte text strings for 60 bytes in total. Today IBM ACS uses those column headings as resultSet column headings but treats them as one long 60-byte string. This request is to stack...
3 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family Functionality already exists

Add Column of Configured Maximum number of jobs on Active Prestart Jobs

In the latest TRs, V7R4 TR11 in our case have been included some additional columns that also included the Peak in Use! It would be very usefull to also have an additional column with the configured Maximum number of jobs per PJ, so we could easil...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging Functionality already exists

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