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    Extend 32763 limitation on display file record

    HTML keyword is useful to our environment as we use enhanced 5250 displays running IBMi Access for Web. However, the record length limitation makes it where our html portion of the output is limited.
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / Application Development 2 Not under consideration

    DATFMT(*JOBYY) for date fields in DDS

    We want to control the format of our date field dynamically depending on a country or user setting. Normally you can use the DATFMT keyword to set the date's format. And all formats are supported. Our idea was to use DATFMT(*JOB) because we wanted...
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / Application Development 2 Not under consideration

    create a BIF for transliteration/transform facility (ICU BASED)

    String replacement and transliteration is an extremely common task in business applications and communication to external parties in international settings. This produce a lot of custom code (and a lot of substandard one) in IBM shops. To do it pr...
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / Application Development 7 Not under consideration

    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 1 year ago in IBM i / Application Development 2 Submitted

    Simplify multilingual support by changing CRTDSPF and CRTPRTF to support new MSGCON parameter "Resolve MSGCON MsgID values at" *COMPILE (default) *RUNTIME (optional)

    Multilingual support can be greatly simplified if IBM supports resolving MSGCON messages at *RUNTIME. Currently MSGCON messages are resolved at compile time only (not good). This is problematic because it locks-in compile time values to object whi...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 2 Submitted

    New API to return a Pointer to Associated Space of User-Objects

    Today, some objects on the IBM i system do not have a DSPxxx command that supports either OUTFILE or in some rare cases, no DSPxxx command at all. In addition there is no API to get some of these object's properties. This request is to provide an ...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 4 Not under consideration

    Create an API for Code Coverage SEP

    Getting Code Coverage with a Service Entry Point (SEP) is only possible through interactive processes with RDi. Having the same feature through API would enable to work in a CI/CD pipeline.
    almost 2 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 5 Future consideration

    Allow Axis to send multipart/form-data

    This is in reference to ticket/ case number TS015278888. I would like to be able to send multipart/form-data in a http POST request. At the moment it appears that it isn't possible to send different encoded types in a single request. For example, ...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 1 Future consideration

    HTTP logging of HTTP_GET_VERBOSE and HTTP_POST_VERBOSE

    When consuming a web service using the SQL based HTTP_GET_VERBOSE and HTTP_POST_VERBOSE, it would be extremely helpful to get a full log of the HTTP communication to the web service much like the LIBHTTP tools allowed for. Currently there is a way...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 1 Submitted

    DDS: ASSUME keyword should be mentioned in the manual with the WINDOW keyword

    In the DDS manual for display files I would like that for the WINDOW keyword it is added that if a dummy record with the ASSUME keyword exists in the display file then the display will not be cleared. It could be added in the "related reference" s...
    over 2 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 0 Submitted

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