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No good way to specify a variable with list parameters.

Transferred from AD0276 - Since the early days of the CPF operating system on the System/38, We've been bedeviled by specifying variables for list parameters in CL programs. For every other parameter on the system, if you need to specify a variabl...
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 5 Not under consideration

Improve ARE PTF Fix Actions

Improve Administration Runtime Expert for i (ARE) to fix missing PTF errors without requiring a save file be present on any system. Create a process to extract a PTF(s) or Group of PTFs to be sent to an endpoint system that does not require the PT...
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / System Management 0 Future consideration

AS/400 Advanced Job Scheduler functionality-57xxJS1

I have two requests for enhancing the Advanced Job Scheduler on As/400. They are closely related together.Initial issue has been found during PMR 46407,668,6681. Update remote system definition in AJD (file: QUSRIJS/QAIJSRMT) allow use FQDN. Curre...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 6 Not under consideration

Add the "Share Open Data Path" attribute to the QDBRTVFD API

The SHARE ODP attribute is missing from the QDBRTVFD API. While SHARE is technically a file's MEMBER attribute, it is an attribute that is pervasively associated with a file object. Currently there is no user-accessible way of retrieving that attr...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Functionality already exists

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...
almost 3 years ago in IBM i / Languages - Other 2 Not under consideration

STRDBG C/C++: ATTR should show type name of structs and classes instead of TYPE=RECORD

When debugging a C/C++ program and want to check the attributes of a struct or class using the debugger command ATTR it only shows "TYPE = RECORD, LENGTH = 574 BYTES". This information is not enough. Instead of "TYPE = RECORD" ATTR should show the...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Application Development 1 Future consideration

Add compiler error or descriptive runtime error to ILE C/C++ compiler in case of invalid pointer casts

We have encountered a problem at runtime when using a third party library (rdkafka) compiled with ILE C compiler. The functions used to set a call back function in the configuration converted a function pointer to a char pointer. We could build th...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Languages - Other 2 Under review

Multiple Occurrence Data Structure can not be used as an operand with the IN operator

Using a Multiple Occurrence Data Structure (MOD) with IN and %list() results in a compiler error. *RNF0203 30 1 Refer to the compiler listing where this message was first *RNF0203 30 001100 OPERAND MOD OF 'IN' CANNOT BE A DATA STRUCTURE. But in th...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 1 Not under consideration

Add temporal information to commands and not just the system catalog

Add the ability to see temporal relations in the following:- DSPFD- DSPDBR It can be discovered with things likeRetrieve Database File Description (QDBRTVFD) APIhttps://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/ssw_ibm_i_73/apis/qdbrtvfd.htm#HDRTEMPOSys...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Not under consideration

Remove SSH dependency for RDi

Currently RDi requires SSH to be active to support remote debugging. We want to limit SSH access due to security requirements which is currently not possible. The debugger already runs on port 3825... can't it be changed to fully support remote de...
almost 3 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 6 Future consideration

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