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Integrate IBM I Access 5250 with Mac Touch Bar

We are running IBM I Access Client Solutions v 1.1.6.1 build 6431 on some MacBook Pro 2016 with touch bars. We would expect to the able to add the application to the shortcut definitions for the OS to display the function keys in the touch bar. De...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

Add ability to run custom SQL statements in New Navigator for i

A lot of admins have written their own custom SQL querys to handle various things on the systems. since the new Navigator for i is SQL based, could we have the ability to run those queries from the new navigator?
over 2 years ago in IBM i / System Management 2 Future consideration

api QDBRTVSN response time too long

I have a security feature based on library and group profile of the current users. the application is a very intensive client-access application.more than 18000 sql for the main job for a duration of 4 minutes 51 seconds. the feature retrieve Libr...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 6 Not under consideration

Allow selection of remote objects to be loaded to an i Project

The remote search view results should in compressed view should allow a developer to select all results to be copied to an i Project. Use Case: Since the remote search does not allow for the use of regular expressions I must create a broad search ...
about 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 7 Not under consideration

AIX 7.2 echo vfcs | kdb is not displaying any output

when i am running kdb command on AIX 7200-03-02-184, it is not displaying any details of fcs adapters, whereas it is working find for vscsi, please let know how to fix this problem in AIX 7.2. [PRD][root@bellvpc2lpr0f aaas]# echo vfcs | kdb START ...
about 5 years ago in AIX 1 Future consideration

Update pathname resolution behavior for trailing slashes to match POSIX specifications

POSIX says, for pathname resolution, that: "A pathname that contains at least one non- <slash> character and that ends with one or more trailing <slash> characters shall not be resolved successfully unless the last pathname component b...
about 5 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

Display paired parentheses in different colors in SQL Where clauses and RPG Do and If statements

Enahancing the RDi editor to display paired parentheses in different colors would enable the programmer to visually see the construct of complex AND and OR clauses in SQL WHERE and RPG IF and DO statements. Use Case: See attachment
over 10 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 8 Not under consideration

ACS Schema - allow view objects across all libraries in list

There are times when I need to know if a database object is in more than one schema. Today, I have to run specific queries using the system catalogs. I would like to be able to have the same fitering views for all schemas as there are for individu...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Future consideration

Remote 5250 Console - sort by LPAR name

when connecting to remote 5250 console, LPARs are sorted by Partition ID (numeric). On systems with a high number of LPARS (20+) it would be great if we have a sort function key to sort LPARs by a) ID, b) Name, c) Reference code
over 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

Please add nslookup, host, dig as part of the base os and not part of option 31, dns

I need to use nslookup (could maybe settle for dig or host) from IBM i. However only my lpars with option 31, dns, loaded have that command. I feel that option 31 dns is a 'host' feature while nslookup, etc are client features. I do not want to lo...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / Networking 3 Not under consideration

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