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Support BRMS and IBM Cloud Storage Solutions for i in a FlashCopy environment.

The problem is that BRMS stores information about the image catalogs and cloud locations and status of the media in QUSRBRM file. The QUSRBRM data is copied back to the production system, but the image catalog data and associated IFS data on the b...
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 5 Delivered

WRKJOB/DSPJOB OPTION(*OPNF) -- F5 should refresh the current screen instead of going back to the top.

When pressing F5 inWRKJOB OPTION(*OPNF)andDSPJOB OPTION(*OPNF)to update the open file information it always starts with the first page instead of the page you have scrolled to. Thus you have to scroll several pages till you come to the files you a...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 5 Delivered

Add an enumeration type to RPG so that named constants can be qualified

Allow the use of the CONST keyword to define a datastructure as a constant Use Case: There is currently no mechanism for a complex type to be declared as a constant, immutable value. Providing this would also allow a qualified datastructure to be ...
about 4 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 11 Delivered

Add New BIF's %right() and %left()

While %left(str: int) can be done with a %subst(str: 1: int), %right(str: int) is not so straight forward. %right(str: int) must be written as %subst(str: %len(%trimr(str)) - (int - 1)) This is far less readable. Please add convenience BIF's %left...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 14 Delivered

SMB 3 (SMBv3) support needed in IBM i 7.3

for better integration of our windows 2012 and 2016 servers and for security issues we need SMBv3 in IBM i V7R3. Use Case: for better integration of our windows 2012 and 2016 servers and for security issues we need SMBv3 in IBM i V7R3.
over 7 years ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 5 Delivered

RDi show full qualified member name in member comparison

In a member comparison, only the member name is displayed in the title bar. Use Case: In the case of the same member names in different libraries or source members, it would be helpful which member is displayed on the left and right. Please show t...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Delivered

ACS Sql scripts F4 Prompt is too slow

IBM does not support CA for Windows so IBM is wanting users to move to ACS. IBM wants us to move away from greenscreen SQL and use the ACS SQL Scripts. Well there have been many issues I have found with this ACS software. But this case concerns th...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 10 Delivered

Add "in use" for stream files in iACS

In IBM Navigator for i you can go into Integrated File Systems and see who has a lock on a stream file.I want that capability added in IBM i Access Client Solutions. Use Case: Trying to perform maintenance on a stream file but I cannot see who has...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered

Allows messages to be changed in 5250 emulator dialog boxes

When you launch the 5250 emulator from the IBM i Access Client Solutions component (version 1.1.4), and enter a user profile and password in the Windows box, if the user profile and/or the password is incorrect, a Windows dialog box is displayed a...
about 8 years ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 9 Delivered

TLS 1.3 General support in IBM i OS V7R2 and V7R3

As we work with a.o. banks, financial service companies and government we need to follow the highest security levels. After the implementation of TLS1.2 we more and more feel the need building up to supporting TLS1.3 in the short term for our clie...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Networking 8 Delivered

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