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    Administrator view to manage all lpars from different projects

    Single view for planning or maintenance purposes, we have to jump from one project to another and it becomes hard to manage. It would be very helpful if there is an administrator view where we can see all LPARs from a single view regardless which ...
    over 6 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    improve compilation cross reference with location in memory

    Hello, I'm working again on expanding the size of a field in the database. I previously encountered difficulties with fields that overlaps in data structures. Exploration of the rpgle compilation cross references gives me a lot of information abou...
    over 2 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 2 Future consideration

    Speed up table partitioning

    Databases are constantly increasing in size, and more and more IBM i customers are approaching or exceeding the limits for a single DB2 table: 1.7 TB storage or 4.2 billion rows. DB2 MultiSystem allows for a table to have up to 256 partitions inst...
    over 2 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Future consideration

    Remote User/Password in ARCN0100 (Connect format)

    An SQL Client Integration Exit Program (ARDPGM) receives remote DB credentials from the SQL system via the Connect format ARCN0100. Both User ID and Password parameters are limited to 10 characters each and the user ID contains only upper case cha...
    over 2 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Future consideration

    add SENDPTFORD options *TRGRP and *SECGRP to the list of options listed under F4 prompt

    This would be useful by making it easier to download all TR group PTFs and Group Security PTFs, without having to lookup the Group PTF numbers, similar to the other options, such as *CUMPKG, *DB2GRP, *HIPERGRP, *JVAGRP, etc.
    over 2 years ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 0 Future consideration

    RPGLE KLIST Field global local

    iSeriesRPGLE Compiler When parameters for a procedure are named exactly like the KEY fields of the databasefile and the KEYLIST is global defined a CHAIN, READ ect. do not find a match.The compiler give a warning, but the number is *RNF7031. That ...
    about 8 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 3 Future consideration

    SQL Add ANCHOR DATA To (%TYPE) functionality

    The lack of support for the %TYPE or ANCHOR DATA TO for data declarations affects our ability to port databases that use this functionality. We are looking at porting a Postgres based application to IBM i and have a large number of functions that ...
    almost 7 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Future consideration

    Allow multiple branches to be selected for LDAP user list

    Enable the LDAP configuration to support multi-branch starting points for the organizational units and containers that it walks to find the users and groups to use within PowerVC.Currently you can only specify 1 starting point and the LDAP walks t...
    over 5 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    STRDBG C/C++: ATTR should show type name of structs and classes instead of TYPE=RECORD

    When debugging a C/C++ program and want to check the attributes of a struct or class using the debugger command ATTR it only shows "TYPE = RECORD, LENGTH = 574 BYTES". This information is not enough. Instead of "TYPE = RECORD" ATTR should show the...
    over 2 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 1 Future consideration

    Add compiler error or descriptive runtime error to ILE C/C++ compiler in case of invalid pointer casts

    We have encountered a problem at runtime when using a third party library (rdkafka) compiled with ILE C compiler. The functions used to set a call back function in the configuration converted a function pointer to a char pointer. We could build th...
    over 2 years ago in IBM i / Languages - Other 4 Future consideration

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