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    Generate Alert for Licensed Product Key Expiration in iSeries

    iSeries license program products are checked using command WRKLICINF for all products including IBM and other Vendors products. If any License program product expiration date appears less than 30 days then there should be alert message in QSYSOPR ...
    about 9 years ago in IBM i / Install and Upgrade and Licensing 4 Delivered

    Remove scrolling when repositioning to next/previous error.

    When using the next/previous error buttons in RDi, the program used to go directly to the source line. At some point this was changed to scroll to the source line. However, this scrolling is much too slow and negatively affects the time taken to c...
    about 9 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Delivered

    Define Fields - Cannot Successfully Edit & Save

    We need the ability to edit a define field and include within it a new define field just created. However, it doesn't work because the new define field is not sequentially above the define field being edited within the text editor source. The prog...
    about 9 years ago in IBM i / Db2 Web Query 1 Delivered

    Update to BRMS - Work with Items to Omit from Backup - Granular Exclusions

    Once we upgraded to V7R1, I experienced an issue where I would receive the following errors in the BRMS log (detailed in the PMR): CPF3761 20 Cannot use *USRSPC QGLDLOCK in QUSRDIRDB. I cannot easily exclude this... and my only recourse is to excl...
    about 9 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 1 Delivered

    IBM RDi 9.5 RPG, Cobol Provide RSE port number parameter in eclipse.ini

    Rational Developer for i 9.5 (SP2) is installed in a Citrix environment. We noticed that occasionally developers encounter a TCP port collision for Rational Developer (Remote Systems Explorer) or RSE component. Error message RSEC2201:E is issued w...
    over 9 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Delivered

    Default the same location to the open path of the SQL script

    The ACS Run SQL Scripts tool saves the last location of the last save of scripts, which is fine to a point. The ablilty to save results to a file also defaults to this same location. Please change the product in one of two ways. 1. Default the fil...
    over 9 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered

    ACS Printer Output Date Time enhancement

    In IBM i Access Client Solutions (ACS), Printer Output module, the creation date and time are separate columns. Also, the date and time are being translated to another timezone and do not match the create date and time on the wrksplf application. ...
    over 9 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered

    CRTBNDRPG should additionally support CCSID parameter

    Eclipse Orion and Git now support RPG Source located in IFS, which will be tagged with CCSID 1208 or UTF-8 as default. On the other hand, the RPG compiler (CRTBNDRPG command) doesn't support CCSID parameter and is not compatible with IFS located R...
    over 9 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 3 Delivered

    WebQuery sort order for Filter in IA-Reports

    In InfoAssist-Reports (fex-files) it is not possible to define a sort order for Filters. It is only available in HTML-Reports but not in Info Assist.A option to define a sort order would be very useful. Use Case: In InfoAssist-Reports (fex-files) ...
    over 9 years ago in IBM i / Db2 Web Query 6 Delivered

    Access Client Solution Run SQL Scripts close dialog box

    Within Access Client Solutions Run SQL Scripts function, exiting from the function without saving causes the "Inquiry Message" dialog to be displayed with Yes, No, and Cancel buttons available. Enhancement request is to have keyboard short cut for...
    over 9 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Delivered

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