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    ACS IFS - resolve correctly "well known locations" to the real physical folder

    Talking about Windows, ACS seems to not respect the client setting, assuming that the position of well known folders is fixed in a system. For example in ACS IFS browser, Edit-Preferences-Download Location is set to "Downloads folder". ACS assumes...
    9 days ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 0 Submitted

    Enhance maximum variable length to 4GB

    More and more we need to handle data with sizes over 16MB ie XML, so it would help a lot if it was possible to handle the maximum amount of data in a variable. Therefore I would like to have the possibility to define variables in RPG with a size o...
    6 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 2 Under review

    Further enhancements to the SQL scalar GENERATE_SPREADSHEET functionality to allow naming a sheet

    Along with the required enhancements to ACS to enable this in the scalar function, provide the ability to name that sheet when creating it in the xls or xlsx workbook. We now have the ability to append a sheet and specify which sheet to add so the...
    about 2 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Future consideration

    A SQL view to display the information on a line

    A view or function that provides information as in the DSPLIND command or the API QDCRLIND More here : https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.6.0?topic=ssw_ibm_i_76/apis/QDCRLIND.html
    4 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 5 Future consideration

    Allow the evaluation of RPG expressions as "pseudo host variables" in EXEC SQL statements

    The idea is, to allow the evaluation of RPG expressions (including the call of %BIFs and procedures) inside an EXEC SQL statement as "pseudo-host-variables". The syntax could be like that: exec sql select count(*) into :myCounter from mytable w...
    4 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Not under consideration
    310 VOTE

    *ESCAPE messages for SAVLIB

    We have received MONMSG for CPF3795 in every SAVLIB running in our CL program: https://ecurep.mainz.de.ibm.com/rest/download/28061%2C100%2C838/2018-04-06/28061.100.838.SOURCE.txt?astext=true&fileSize=83568 But, when CPF3795 is reported saving ...
    over 7 years ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 5 Not under consideration

    RDI: Remember last Filter view > Date

    When right clicking in a source and select Filter view > Dateit allways shows the current date and less than.In almost 100% of cases I change it to a lesser date for example 251001 and search for greater than. This works OK. I can see what has ...
    about 2 months ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Future consideration

    Automatic Management of TLS Certificates

    Since the validity period of SSL/TLS certificates will be reduced from the current 398 days to 47 days starting in March 2029, managing certificates manually will become very difficult due to the significantly shortened validity.Therefore, a servi...
    5 months ago in IBM i / Security 1 Submitted

    Extend the SQL command HTTP_DELETE and include a additional body parameter

    It would be great if the SQL command HTPP_DELETE could be extended by an additional request body. I know that this is not the standard, but in an actual project we need to pass an order number in a HTTP_DELETE statement. The problem is, that other...
    about 1 month ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Not under consideration

    Run SQL Scripts: Remember previous prompted variable values

    Related to IBMI-I-4640, when using prompted variables, have iACS RSS remember the previous values and present them in a combo box for each variable. This would make running the same query multiple times much easier when you can select previous val...
    2 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Future consideration

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