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commit & rollback in Toolbox ribbon in Run SQL script

It would be great if Run Sql Script could have two new buttons - "commit" and "rollback" in Toolbox ribbon. if these two could be available only when applicable -> if isolation level in opened JDBC connection = '*NONE' THEN "greyed out" else "a...
about 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 6 Delivered

Monitor for Hardware Key expiration

We are trying to extract the firmware status to allow tracking of expired keys. There are some commands which will extract the key information (DSPFMWSTS) but no associated API's that we can find. We looked at monitoring for the messages when the ...
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 6 Delivered

User profile maintenance function

Can we have a function that we can maintain user profiles using SQL. For example: call systools.update_user_profiles(profile = > 'MARINATEST', enabled = > '*YES', password => 'Testing@@123' ) Or I can just disable the profile. call systoo...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Delivered

DSPSYSSTS ASTLVL(*BASIC) : Show "system storage" in GB or TB.

DSPSYSSTS ASTLVL(*BASIC)Disk spaces have grown so large that reporting in MB is no longer feasable. DSPSYSSTS ASTLVL(*BASIC)Disk space: System storage (in 1,000,000 bytes) . . . . . . . . . . : +++++++ System storage used . . . . . . . . . . . . ....
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 2 Delivered

Change user of Integrated Webservice Server

Currently it is not possible to change the user of the webservices server without deleting, recreating and redeploying all services. Please extend the setWebServicesServerProperties.sh script with a -user parameter so that QWSERVICE (or any other ...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 3 Delivered

Add UTF8-Support to RUNSQLSTM

If you create an SQL script via the ACS, it is saved in the IFS as UTF-8. If you now call this script via the RUNSQLSTM command, it can happen that incorrect characters occurs. Eg if the script starts with "--". Use Case: Example: -- This script S...
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Delivered

Create a feature to effectively export/import preferences

The existing export/import of preferences in Eclipse is inadequate for Rational Developer for Power Systems Software features. Currently with the product, when you import in a PRF file, you get little to no customizations duplicated from the exist...
almost 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 9 Delivered

AIX LFS changes required for smbc performance enhancement

Development asked for an RFE to be opened to request modification of the LFS layer of AIX to add vinfo parameters to the vnop_readdir and vnop_lockctl calls so that the smbc client can get the information it needs to avoid duplicating SMB queries,...
almost 4 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

Allow Refactor Rename to wrap lines when the new length is longer than the record length

When using the Refactor>Rename on ILE RPG, it is possible for the length of the line to exceed the record length of the original line. In this case RDi should break the line at an appropriate place and wrap it onto a new line. It would be ideal...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 6 Delivered

Integration between Schemas and Run SQL Scripts

There should be better integration between the Schemas application and the Run SQL Scripts application.At minimum there should be shortcuts from Schemas to Run SQL Scripts and from Run SQL Scripts to Schemas.It would be nice to be able to right cl...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Delivered