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Fix RDi LPEX Content Assist to correctly describe data structure arrays as arrays

RDi is a commonly used integrated development environment designed for creating and maintaining applications on IBM i systems. A very helpful feature in the RDi LPEX editor is the content assist feature. Content Assist allows the user to quickly e...
about 9 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Delivered

Keyboard operation to push buttons needs to be unchanged in ACS Session Manager

Keyboard operation to push buttons needs to be unchanged in ACS Session Manager. ACS 1.1.8.3 or later requires Ctrl + Enter key for push button operation while 1.1.8.2 or earlier accepted just Enter. A large customer here deploys ACS with RPA solu...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered

filesystem shrinking with multiple threads

The current shrinkfs functionality of AIX does not scale well and only uses one thread for moving data during a shrink. Since during the work of shrinkfs the filesystem is quiesced to avoid conflicts with new I/O, this can cause applications to bl...
about 4 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

Include text description in WRKHDWRSC output to *OUTFILE

When directing the output from WRKHDWRSC to *PRINT, it includes the text description of the resources. However, directing the output to *OUTFILE does not include text description for any resource. I would like you make the *OUTFILE output similar ...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 4 Delivered

ACS Run SQL Scripts - change query options

In iNavigator Run SQL Scripts a menu option is provided to alter the query attributes for the job or jobs. This option is not available in ACS Run SQL Scripts. Use Case: DB2 estimates a recursive CTE statement will exceed the time limit or storage...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Delivered

Logical expressions resulting to *On/*Off

The result of a logical expression should evaluate to *On (True) or *Off (False) Use Case: DoW *On; // Infinite loopDoW *Off; // Bypass the loop. can be useful for testingDoU *Off; // Infinite loopDoU *On; If *On;If *Off;Etc. Now, compiler gives e...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 10 Delivered

open source Node.js iToolKit

The following languages have open source iToolkits that allow for community collaboration and contribution: Ruby, PHP, Python, .NET, Swift, shell(db2util). And the one that doesn't: Node.js (arguably the most popular open source language IBM i has...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 3 Delivered

Provide schema parameter on RUNSQLSTM

Allow a SCHEMA parameter on RUNSQLSTM so that statements don't need to be qualified, contain a set schema instruction or the current library needs to be changed. This allows the script to be generic so that it can be run against different environm...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 5 Delivered

Log command line version of Admin GUI actions to HTTP or Web service logs

When performing administrative functions within the Admin GUI, it would be helpful to have the command line version logged to the HTTP or Application server log. Use Case: If deploying a web service, you can see the command and options that were u...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 2 Delivered

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almost 3 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Delivered