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Improve the SET DESCRIPTOR statement

The usage of the SET DESCRIPTOR statement is currently complex, tedious and error prone, this leads to hard to maintain code and the usage of anti patterns like user supplied strings directly inserted into dynamic SQL or complex case statements in...
about 3 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Not under consideration

Problem with special characters in IBM i Access Client Solution ACS run sql script

I found a problem with the content assist function in the Run Sql Script module of the ACS product.If the library or object has one of the following characters ($ £ §), auto-completion will not work.Problem 1) No message is output with the $ chara...
about 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

Remove "circumvent control technology designed to limit interactive capacity" verbiage from PTF cover letters.

Since the reason for products like "FAST/400" has disappeared can they please remove the following verbiage from PTF cover letters?<snip>Application of this PTF may disable or render ineffective programs that use system memory addresses not ...
about 8 years ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 3 Not under consideration

Increase maximum combined length of all fields in DSPF

We are using ProfoudUI, which creates Rich Display files. They are stored in DSPF member types, and are compiled as such (but utilize OpenAccess instead of 5250). Unfortunately, DSPF has a maximum record length of all variables of 32763 bytes - wh...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Allow reserved words as qualified DS subfield names

Allow reserved words to be specified as data structure subfield names. Use Case: The following DS is not allowed because of subfields Read, Update, and Delete, requiring non-standard names for those authorities: DCL-DS ObjectAuthority QUALIFIED; O...
about 4 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 5 Not under consideration

Audit Issue with PASE and QSHELL

Recently we had user move critical Production IFS folder family using PACE or QSHELL options. This caused a critical production issue. The only tracking found was in QAUDJRN OM record showing IFS folder move. This did not show actual commands exec...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 14 Not under consideration

Hide EULA agreement in .properties file

It would be great if the EULA agreement could be disabled from being seen by use of a parameter in the .properties file. The current "silent" EULA solution for ACS involves running a .js script in "Admin Config" mode. My current deployment however...
about 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

PASE - Allow to run while on restricted state

This RFE is connected with #154063 For a better integration with Open Source tools it would be great to allow commands in PASE while system is in restricted stated.Even without TCP services will be useful. I can think of two scenarios:* PASE can r...
about 3 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 1 Not under consideration

Improve Dynamic Screen Manager API Documentation

While the online documentation for DSM APIs (Dynamic Screen Manager for IBM i) are complete, they are completely without context. The goal of DSM was to simplify dynamic screen creation, however, the documentation does not provide enough context t...
about 5 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 2 Not under consideration

MONSWABRM

The command MONSWABRM is waiting for the sync point to be reaching, when it is reached action is being taken, but what if that sync point is never reached? Use Case: If for some reason the sync point is mot reached, the MONSWABRM was not designed ...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 10 Not under consideration

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