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    ACS Schema Explorer - Database Diagraming support

    Support database diagraming in Schema browser. Allow for creation, and reverse engineer from existing database. Reverse engineer should read all foreign key relationships and give you proper diagram. When editing a new diagram, or one generated fr...
    over 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Not under consideration

    Compile ILE source from Orion

    Our team includes PHP developers who are beginning to maintain the existing RPG code base. Since the RPG code is included in the same git repository as the PHP code, we need the ability to make changes to the ILE source and compile from the same i...
    almost 9 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 3 Not under consideration

    Enable options(*exact) for indicators.

    I am the developer of RPGUNIT and recently I added procedure assertEqual() to it. This procedure handles all data types, because it uses the OVERLOAD keyword for delegating the call to the procedure that is in charge for the data type. dcl-pr asse...
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 3 Not under consideration

    Add Native DCM support for ACME protocol (Automatic Certificate Management Environment)

    IBM i 7.4 introduced APIs that support Native Digital Certificate Management, I would like IBM to build on this a deliver a natively supported ACME (Automatic Certificate Management Environment) protocol support to allow IBM i to automatically req...
    about 2 years ago in IBM i / Security 4 Not under consideration

    iACS - HOD

    we have done a network installation of iACS inside our IFS with restricted access for functions like "run SQL-Scripts". Our Users can only see the 5250-Emulator and their SPLFs. We have entered the restrictions inside the AcsConfig.properties-file...
    almost 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

    Add the ability to Watch a file

    Using Watches, you can watch for messages, PAL entries, and LIC Logs. Management Central used to have file monitors that provided a similar sort of feature. This RFE is to request the ability to Watch a file. The minimum features needed to watch a...
    almost 7 years ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 3 Not under consideration

    Allow "5-Work with" on duplicate entries in WRKJOB

    Currently, WRKJOB QZDASOINIT, for example, returns a list of duplicate jobs. If you select one, you need to re-execute the WRKJOB to get the list of duplicate jobs back before selecting another one. Can the list of duplicate jobs be in the format ...
    about 8 years ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 4 Not under consideration

    Support JSONPARSE without "root" object

    Allow the IBM supplied JSONPARSE parser to parse a JSON object without a name. Use Case: Example, JSONString containing; { "name": "this is my name", "age": "50"} … fails with RNX0356, reason code 1 when using the code; Dcl-DS myDS Qualified; name...
    over 6 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 3 Not under consideration

    iACS: List file shares

    Provide a way to list existing file shares such as the list provided by (method 1: IBM Navigator for i (aka http://youribmi:2001)File systems / File Shares (method 2: 5250)ADDLIBLE NETSRVCMDGO NETS11. Work with Shares Use Case: Listing existing sh...
    about 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

    IBM i Server exit points

    I use the IBM Server exit points to allow/deny and secure functions and access to my Power i LPARs. Use Case: It would be great the be able to get the IP address of the requester passed along in all of the exits. It is available in some of them li...
    over 7 years ago in IBM i / Security 7 Not under consideration

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