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Chinese Character ? not being supported with CCSID 937

Hello Team, We have received an update from customer that the Chinese character 菓 is not being supported in one of the web based applications. We are using Traditional Chinese and CCSID on the AS400 side is 937 which is supported for Chinese chara...
about 3 years ago in IBM i / Languages - Other 2 Not under consideration

Disable the NPS survey pop-up for specific users

Behavior seen in version V9R1M920 When loging into the HMC a popup is triggerd with a survey.The pop-up trigger is scheduled on a regular cadence according to the following schedule:1) 30 days after initial use by each user.2) 30 days after the in...
over 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Not under consideration

I would like to see the outline include files that are used by embedded SQL

I would like to see files used by embedded SQL in an RPGLE program in the outline view. Currently only files defined on F specs show in the outline view. Use Case: I use the outline view occasionally to see what files a program uses and how. If fi...
over 11 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Not under consideration

ACS RSS - Support Multiple Connections

Within ACS Run SQL Scripts (RSS) support the ability to connect multiple times with different configurations and then run a given SQL against one of those Connections.The 'Quantum DB' plugin for Eclipse provides this functionality. This support is...
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

Bring LPEX editor more in line with Eclipse Java editor

I would like to see an LPEX "Editor profile" that makes the LPEX editor work like the Eclipse Java editor as long as it relates to "selecting text" or "text indention" (TAB / Shift-TAB). Selection text, changing the left indention of selected text...
over 10 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Not under consideration

Loading methods in Subfiles

I am entering another idea - in fact, thoughts about loading methods. Please find the attached document. Thank you.
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 1 Not under consideration

CAnn/CFnn and ENTER key

1) Can we have CAnn / CFnn without resulting indicator and have *INnn itself as the default result indicator? (CA12 itself should be enough to say *IN12 as response indicator.) -----o-o-o---- 2) Can we have Enter(*INxx) as a keyword similar to CAn...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Application Development 4 Not under consideration

Tagging conditional statements like IF, DO, SELECT

Statements like IF - ELSE - ENDIF, SELECT, LOOPs should have tag (or Id) assigned to the beginning and end (and if required in between). Example: /Free IF#1: IF (cond1) { Set-of-statements;} IF#1-1: IF (inner-condition 1) { Set-of-statements;} IF#...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 2 Not under consideration

Add keyboard mapping to Access for Web on the IBM i

Client Access (Access for Windows) provided keyboard mapping. When using Access for Web it doesn't allow you to map specific functions (Field Exit, Destructive Backspace, Field Plus etc.) causing users to have a more difficult time entering data r...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

Add weakly distinct types to V7R3

Hi, Please support "weak types" as documented at https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6174189 on V7R3 as well. This would be a major benefit in migrating DDS based databases with REF FLD's to SQL. Thanks,Paul Use Case: Hi, Please support "weak t...
about 3 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Not under consideration

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