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Allow multiple Recipients in the send email function

Absolutely love that we now have send email, however the usability would grow if we could email multiple recipients. suggestion would be to have recipients septerated with a semi colon or comma.
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Delivered

DCM - New Digital certificate manager

The current certificate manager has been a workhorse for any work with certificates over the years. However, it is not heterogeneous integrated into the current ACS (nor web administration). Also visual presentation of certificates, stores and cha...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / System Management 7 Delivered

See variable bigger than 4,095 characters in RDI Debug

Green Screen debug allow you to do this: EVAL MyBigXML:C 65000. And you see the complete value of the field! Inside RDI, you can add a monitor varaible with "MyBigXML:C 65000" and it cuts off at 4,095 characters. Oh well, just use command line STR...
over 9 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Delivered

Speed of DLPAR for procs and especially memory in AIX

DLPAR operations in AIX take a long time, especially when adding a huge amount of memory. But also the addition of cores takes a lot of time. In HA cluster scenarios, the idea is to run the passive cluster partner with a minimum of resources and i...
almost 5 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

CPF warning when system has reached 90% of 2.6 Million spool files

CPI1468 - System job tables nearing capacity is generated before the system becomes unusable. Very nice. CPF4235 is generated when the number of spool files exceeds 2.6 Million. It would be helpful to receive a similar message when the Spool file ...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 8 Delivered

Port FIRST_DAY function to Db2 for i

IBM Db2 11.1 introduced a new scalar function FIRST_DAY to return the first day of the month. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2/11.5?topic=functions-first-day Please port this function to IBM Db2 for i. Use Case: Make SQL more readable. Make SQL mor...
almost 3 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Delivered

Allow IFS as source for compiler source files

Provide the ability to compile all object types for the IBM i from IFS based source files. Then allow the git interfaces to push the source files from the IFS to a GIT repository. Use Case: When developing applications I cannot use the IFS to stor...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 7 Delivered

Change RPG compiler to require prototypes for exported procedures

With 7.1 the compiler was changed to not require prototypes for procedures of a RPG module. While that change is great for local procedures, it is really bad for exported procedures, because the compiler does not necessarily validate the prototype...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 15 Delivered

Add back to PowerVC 2 where you can see which VMs are using a network

In powerVC 1X we could see a list of VMs using a network so we could unmanage those LPARs so we could delete or make changes to that network as it does not allow you to do so if VMs are using it.
almost 3 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

DEBUG in RDI able to show data in UNICODE

AS said in https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/forums/html/topic?id=a596866f-3aaa-42a1-b766-04edcb293f19, RDI debug can't show data in UNICODE. i'd like to see UNICODE (GRAPHIC) data in debug mode under RDI. Use Case: RPG program manipula...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 8 Delivered

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