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Count recursive calls (all/direct)

Requesting a built in function to recognize if a proc was called recursively with a parameter to recognize if it was called by itself. Ex: dcl-proc chkRecursion;dcl-pi chkRecursion end-pi;count = %recursion();countDirect = %recursion( *on );if cou...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 2 Not under consideration

Copy Function RDI

Hello, I have not checked out the new release yet but if the ability to copy from one source to another one open in the workspace using (c(c) and a) as we can do in the current source in addition to copy/paste would be a big time saver I think. Si...
about 3 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Not under consideration

Ship Ruby with 5733OPS

Include Ruby as 5733OPS option. Use Case: We need a clean build of Ruby MRI. We actually use JRuby to develop our API. With recent PASE improvements (GCC, ...), we want to leave JRuby to use Ruby MRI. Ruby MRI will increase performances of our pro...
about 8 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 1 Not under consideration

Provide virtual FTP directory

Allow a user to be locked in a specific FTP directory... this directory should be his virtual root. Use Case: It is now possible to set an initial FTP directory via an exit program, however once logged on the user can still perform a cd /someother...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / Networking 22 Not under consideration

NFS v4 support for WRKIMGCLGE *DEV

Currently, on V7Rx, it is not possible to mount an NFS remote directory (.iso or.img) on an remote NFS optical drive, if the NFS server is in v4. Only previous versions of this protocol are supported. The main disadvantage of these versions is tha...
about 2 years ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 2 Not under consideration

heredoc syntax for large literals

When developing SQLRPG programs, I frequently have to deal with large multiline literal strings for defining SQL statements. I have in fact exceeded the size limit of a string literal in the past. It would be nice to have a HEREDOC syntax for assi...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 4 Not under consideration

Allow use of full screen width by ,Dynamic scaling HTML5 enhancement to the Access for Web and Mobile Access for the 5250

It would be more user friendly if the iamobile 5250 emulator app dynamically used the full screen width on newer IPADS. Currently it only uses about 2/3 of the screen. Use Case: Our executives need to able to access our iseries quickly , without h...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Not under consideration

Enhance Find to search collapsed code

Update the Find functionality to find the search argument in collapsed code. Currently the LPEX editor says the argument is "not found" if all occurrences of it are in a block of code that has been collapsed. Ideally update LPEX to pull the line c...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Not under consideration

DB Development Perspective allow subset on Edit

IBM Rational Developer for i (RDi) version 9.6.0.1 has a Database Development perspective that allows editing of the contents of a Db2 table (right-click on table->Data->Edit). This brings back an arbitrary subset of the rows in the table. T...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Not under consideration

Port Pandoc

Pandoc is a useful tool that allows conversion between different document types. One example is markdown to pdf. https://pandoc.org/ Pandoc is written Haskell so it would likely need to be ported prior. Haskell has support for AIX so porting shoul...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 3 Not under consideration

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