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support for mac in rdp

i want to be able to run the RDP on my mac native. Use Case: today the rdp has to be run in a virtual machine running windows in my mac. this prevents me from going over to mac.
about 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 11 Delivered

Include fully qualified Job (name) in JOBLOG_INFO Table function resultSet

The IBM Service named JOBLOG_INFO does not currently include the full-qualified job identity in the list of resultSet columns. Please add it and name that new column JOB. Use Case: When using JOBLOG_INFO in combination with other IBM Services, som...
almost 3 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 4 Delivered

Pre-install ACS Client on IBM i IFS for use by IBM i

As the ACS product can be run natively by IBM i, then it would be ideal if it was automatically installed in one standard place on the system by default. Use Case: Using the IBM ACS client to (acsbundle.jar) to transfer / translate a Db2 for i fil...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 6 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...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / JAVA 7 Delivered

Refactor->Extract Constant - for ILE RPG

Code Refactoring is a well known software best practice that involves improving the structure of existing computer code while preserving its behaviour.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_refactoringEclipse already has excellent refactoring support ...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Delivered

Boolean data type in Db2

The boolean datatype seam to be standard in other major database, so it will be a good opportunity to also have bool as a native type in DB2. I know you can use CREATE TYPE BOOL to make you own implementation, however it will not allow direct logi...
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 4 Delivered

Display Module Information not available for objects compiled from IFS source

Enhancements have been made to support RPGLE and CLLE sources on the ifs. When compiling from the ifs, the source information seems not to be stored with the object. When I do a DSPMOD for an ifs compiled object, I don't see source info. This is a...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 10 Delivered

Allow Navigator for i to use SSL/TLS Host Server ports

Closing/Restricting the Host Server ports to be SSL/TLS only breaks the Navigator for i login page. I was able to point the sign-on server port(8476) to service "as-signon-s" to force it over, but I would like a supported method of doing this to b...
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / System Management 6 Delivered

IBM i ACS Run SQL Scripts copy/paste column headings

Add the ability to copy and paste from the results including column headings.The ability to copy and paste the data from the results is very convenient. But without the column headings the data is meaningless in most cases.My workaround is to save...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 7 Delivered

Prompt for download location for IFS in iACS

Would like to have an option to present a pop up for download location, in addition to the settings currently in Preferences, when selecting a file to download from the Integrated File System (IFS) interface. Use Case: Users typically download IFS...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered

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