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Application Development

CAnn/CFnn and ENTER key

1) Can we have CAnn / CFnn without resulting indicator and have *INnn itself as the default result indicator? (CA12 itself should be enough to say *IN12 as response indicator.) -----o-o-o---- 2) Can we have Enter(*INxx) as a keyword similar to CAn...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / Application Development Not under consideration

STRDBG C/C++: ATTR should show type name of structs and classes instead of TYPE=RECORD

When debugging a C/C++ program and want to check the attributes of a struct or class using the debugger command ATTR it only shows "TYPE = RECORD, LENGTH = 574 BYTES". This information is not enough. Instead of "TYPE = RECORD" ATTR should show the...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / Application Development Future consideration

Provide a QteRetrieveModuleViews API that works when NOT in Debug Mode

No APIs return the DBGVIEW(*LIST | *SOURCE | *ALL | *NONE | *STMT) attribute for programs or embedded *MODULEs except QteRetrieveModuleViews. However it, like all Qte* API are enabled only while the job is in Debug Mode. Please provide this inform...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / Application Development Future consideration

To be able to export process approval data

This would be useful so that you can pull data together on all the maps that you have and you could see which maps have been approved, the date that they were approved and whom by. This would benefit editors in being able to identify which process...
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / Application Development Under review

Granting *USE access for programmers for all users

We recently migrated to a power 8 box with V7R3 and we discovered that the programmers cannot invoke a STRSRVJOB for a regular user (non-programmer, no special authorities) job in the system. Support says to log in as QPGMR or grant *USE on the ta...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / Application Development Future consideration

Edit Code extension to show only the day-month portion of a date; strip the fractional portion of a numeric variable

Some times there is not enough room on the screen for a full date. In order to manage, only the month-day of the date are shown. Furthermore, Some times it is enough to dispaly only the day prtion, because the year and month are on top of the scre...
about 9 years ago in IBM i / Application Development Not under consideration

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

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

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

Provide Universal , ARM or Apple Silicon version of Rational Developer for i for MacOS

Given this SOD from Apple, please update RDi in time for Rosetta demise. Rosetta is currently available for any Mac with Apple silicon, and it will remain available through the forthcoming macOS 27 — the next major macOS release. Starting with com...
3 months ago in IBM i / Application Development Submitted

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