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CPF warning when system has reached 90% of 2.6 Million spool files

CPI1468 - System job tables nearing capacity is generated before the system becomes unusable. Very nice. CPF4235 is generated when the number of spool files exceeds 2.6 Million. It would be helpful to receive a similar message when the Spool file ...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 8 Delivered

Content Assist to slow in resolving fields

Simply put the resolution of potential field makes content assist almost unusable. I can usually find the field information faster by switching to an emulator session and looking up the fields faster than it comes back. This is mentioned in 146722...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 5 Delivered

Change RPG compiler to require prototypes for exported procedures

With 7.1 the compiler was changed to not require prototypes for procedures of a RPG module. While that change is great for local procedures, it is really bad for exported procedures, because the compiler does not necessarily validate the prototype...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 15 Delivered

Allow IFS as source for compiler source files

Provide the ability to compile all object types for the IBM i from IFS based source files. Then allow the git interfaces to push the source files from the IFS to a GIT repository. Use Case: When developing applications I cannot use the IFS to stor...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 7 Delivered

DEBUG in RDI able to show data in UNICODE

AS said in https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/forums/html/topic?id=a596866f-3aaa-42a1-b766-04edcb293f19, RDI debug can't show data in UNICODE. i'd like to see UNICODE (GRAPHIC) data in debug mode under RDI. Use Case: RPG program manipula...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 8 Delivered

PowerVC user role on HMC

Create a user with least privileges to connect PowerVC to HMC
over 4 years ago in PowerVC 4 Delivered

PowerSC Patch Management replication feature should work with non-root users

The PowerSC Patch Management feature allows Primary-Secondary TNCPM topology- the primary server downloads TLs, SPs, ifixes etc and replicates them to the the secondary TNCPM server. For this, we need to configure password-less root SSH between pr...
7 months ago in PowerSC 2 Delivered

%PARMS built-in function for CLLE

Supporting optional parameters in CLLE is made more difficult by the omission of a %PARMS-like built-in function for CLLE similar to that provided for RPGLE. Use Case: %ADDR in CLLE is useful in the case of *OMITted parameters but is not indicated...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Languages - CL (Control Language) 7 Delivered

Add a colored border for different environements in RDi

In IBM i Access Client Solutions (ACS) - Run SQL Scripts it is possible to set a colored border for different environments/connections. This is really helpful when working on different (customer) environments or test and productive environments. A...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 6 Delivered

support for mac in rdp

i want to be able to run the RDP on my mac native. Use Case: today the rdp has to be run in a virtual machine running windows in my mac. this prevents me from going over to mac.
about 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 11 Delivered

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