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Support BRMS and IBM Cloud Storage Solutions for i in a FlashCopy environment.

The problem is that BRMS stores information about the image catalogs and cloud locations and status of the media in QUSRBRM file. The QUSRBRM data is copied back to the production system, but the image catalog data and associated IFS data on the b...
about 4 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 5 Delivered

Support of Java versions on IBM i beyond Java 8

Java 8 has been the last supported version for 5 years now. It looks like there are no considerations to support version after 8 on IBM i (at least I don't find any information about it). IBM i should also support more recent versions of Java. Use...
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / JAVA 7 Delivered

Add APAR id to Object_Statistics

When performing an upgrade one may want to find all commands which have had their defaults changed via CHGCMDDFT.If you do the DSPOBJD with *SERVICE details you can look at the APAR ID (ODAPAR). It get CHGDFT for any commands that have had CHGCMDD...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 4 Delivered

Option to set web browser used by ACS to launch Navigator for i

Would like for there to be an option in ACS preferences to set the default web browser used for launching Navigator for i and other web based tasks. Option would allow for selecting from any currently installed browsers. Use Case: Used in instance...
about 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Delivered

Add TEXT options besides *BLANK for Create Service Program (CRTSRVPGM) Command

It would be nice on the CRTSRVPGM command to have an option other than *BLANK for the TEXT parameter. The default could remain as *BLANK, but the ability to change the command default to one of the following would be great! Examples:*MODULE - This...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 11 Delivered

%timestamp with micro seconds

Build in function %timestamp returns 000 in the micro second part. By using SQL you can get timestamp with micro seconds, but we measure a larger cpu consumption.The requirement is %timestamp with micro seconds and same performance as today! Use C...
about 8 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 5 Delivered

IBM i ACS - IFS unzip function

In IBM i ACS the Integrated File System is missing the option to zip/unzip. Use Case: When upgrading iso images are in the zip format. With ACS and the IFS functionality we can upload them but we either have to unzip them beforehand or do it from ...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 6 Delivered

Port and add gnuPG(GPG) to the IBMi Open Source RPM's

Port and add gnuPG(GPG) to the IBMi Open Source RPM's. I can't find any recent port or precompiled AIX binary to use on the IBMi than version 1.40.10. The latest available version is 2.2.6 and Use Case: Easy and well know utility to encrypt an sig...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 5 Delivered

Choose appropriate colors for find-replace dialog in Dark theme

When using the Dark theme, the options in the find-replace dialog which overlays LPEX are unreadable because the text is still colored for light themes. (See attachments.) Most other aspects of the RDi environment work well in the Dark theme, so t...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 8 Delivered

Support Array names and %SUBARR on %MIN and %MAX in RPG IV

The IBM i v7r2 RPG IV enhancements of %MIN and %MAX do not support the use of an RPG ARRAY name as their only parameter. This would provide the ability to extract the min/max of an array of elements. Supporting an array name as well as %SUBARR wou...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 12 Delivered