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Recognize fields renamed in RPG I-specs in RDi live outline

Currently RDi doesn't recognize renames of fields in RPG I-specs. For example, in the code below, the outline fails to recognize p3srvl as a defined field, and all functions dependent on it do not function. Please consider enabling the live outlin...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Delivered

expose DSPNETA via IBM i SQL UDTF

please add an SQL UDTF to expose the data in the DSPNETA command. Use Case: we have a need to "get at" some of the data in the RTVNETA command, ie CPNAME and having a system UDTF would make lots of programming tasks easier.
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 6 Delivered

Abilty to specify a move policy when a volume is full

I would like to have the ability to specify a move policy to run when the volume is full Use Case: To my knowledge the only way you can configure move policy for a media class in BRMS is to set the number of days since the backup before the volume...
about 7 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 7 Delivered

Request change of default permissions

The /var/ct/RMstart.log is the logfile used by RMC and can contain sensitive data that must be secured. RMC provides a single monitoring and management infrastructure for both RSCT peer domains and management domains. Its generalized framework is ...
over 3 years ago in AIX 0 Delivered

Connections - Ability to define database to connect to by default

I would like to see a Connections configuration option that allows us to define a default database to connect to on a conneciton.There isn't one today and defaults to the sysbas asp. Which for those of us with iASP infrastructures, is a pain for R...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Delivered

Need USER_OBJECTS_OWNED UDTF/VIEW

Provide an SQL Service in Db2 for i that returns data similar to but better than the WRKOBJOWN CL command. Named something like: USER_OBJECTS_OWNED() Use Case: The need to determine and/or process the list of objects owned by a given IBM i USER PR...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Delivered

DB2 HTTP Consumer Functions (Verbose) are suppressing response messages if the http error code is different than 2xx

If the HTTP Response Code is 3xx or 4xx the (Verbose) HTTP Consumer Functions of DB2 /i are ignoring the response message from the service - the response header ist deliverd - but response message is NULL. Use Case: To enable the best user experie...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Delivered

Change SQL window quit warning dialog buttons

When closing an SQL window, the warning prompts are inconsistent and confusing. All results currently open will be closed. Do you want to continue? Yes/No Save changes to Untitled? Yes/No/Cancel On the first question, No abandons the close action....
over 2 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Delivered

Please port Ghostscript and GhostPDL to the yum repository

Ghostscript is vastly used to create and manipulate PDF files, to print PDF files to PostScript or PCL printers, to create images files from PDF and others conversions (see https://www.ghostscript.com/doc/Devices.htm). Use Case: Print PDF file dir...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 3 Delivered

Implement lsmpio -q volume name implementation based on lsmpio_map in AIX 7.2

AIX 7.3 TL1 implements an option to extract the volume name identification (and other fields) for lsmpio -q based on an hdisk attribute called lsmpio_map (AIX-I-273) We have some customers requesting this enhancement to be backported also in AIX 7...
over 1 year ago in AIX 1 Delivered

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