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Application Development

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    Allow embedded debug information to be encrypted after program has been created

    Provide the ability to add a debug encryption key after a program has been created. Use Case: A ISV needs to send a customer debuggable code, but doesn't want the customer to have access to the embedded debug information. Currently, they would hav...
    over 7 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 3 Not under consideration

    Option to exclude comment lines when debugging

    This is a request to add functionality to all debuggers on the system to allow the exclusion or the ability to switch to having comment statements shown or not shown. Use Case: Comment lines are shown and in many cases, it is difficult to identify...
    about 4 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 5 Not under consideration

    Make Debug Server TCP endpoints available to the public

    Terminology may be incorrect as not enough information is publicly available at the moment. Please allow connections to the Debug Server so debug sessions can be started remotely. It would be awesome if it could be well documented and language-agn...
    over 8 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 3 Not under consideration

    No good way to specify a variable with list parameters.

    Transferred from AD0276 - Since the early days of the CPF operating system on the System/38, We've been bedeviled by specifying variables for list parameters in CL programs. For every other parameter on the system, if you need to specify a variabl...
    about 7 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 5 Not under consideration

    API or SQL Service similar to QDCRDEVD DEVD1100 to retrieve *lan printers Address

    Currently the only way to get the ip address for a *lan printer is DSPDEVD and page down. We have hundreds of printers and it would be beneficial to our help desk to be able to find it without giving them access DSPDEVD.
    over 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

    Checkbox for option does not support 27x132 display size

    if a checkbox is used in a subfile, at V7R2 it does not support 27x132 display size. Throws a compilation error for fields located outside 74 position. Use Case: The checkbox - a versatile function available on green screen is not usable when the ...
    over 6 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 3 Is a defect

    Add Source Change Mark column to Source Physical Files to promote move to **FREE and preserve historical metadata

    With the addition of **FREE support for RPGLE, the prior use of columns 1 - 5 goes away. However, the vast majority of developers use these 5 characters to put a 'change mark' to tie source code changes back to a project or reason for the change. ...
    11 months ago in IBM i / Application Development 2 Not under consideration

    IBM i developer workstation emulation (like zPDT)

    allow offline IBMi development, using workstation-based system emulator which can facilitate github/CI/CD development integration similar approach has been available for System Z via Rational developer tools and zPDThttps://www-356.ibm.com/partner...
    over 6 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 3 Not under consideration

    Option to Automatically do UPDPGM to update signature related to Service Program

    Currently when a procedure is added/removed or changed order within a Service Program, the signature changes, and all programs that relate to the Service Program need to do UPDPGM. If not, the program fails. There are some tricks to go around, tri...
    over 7 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 4 Not under consideration

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