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Allow use of RPG procedures in embedded SQL as host "variable"

When writing embedded SQL, host variables should be real variables instead of expressions which requires additional step to define extra work variables and assign the expression in advance to the work variable. Use Case: An example might be as fol...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 4 Not under consideration

Custom HTTP Header Fields Should Replace Supplied Defaults in the QSYS2 HTTP Functions

When using the QSYS2 HTTP functions, custom HTTP request fields can be supplied. These supplied fields should replace any defaults provided by the HTTP functions. For example, the HTTP request field "Host" is automatically supplied by the HTTP fun...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 6 Is a defect

Show description in "System" drop down box for ACS

When having lots of systems, sometimes with the most weird hostnames or even IP-addresses it is hard to remember which one is which when starting en emulation or other function. Use Case: In the System Configurations you can specificy a descriptio...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Not under consideration

Named constant *SRCCCSID for current source CCSID

Moving files from QRPGLESRC to IFS and around in international environment can cause some challenges for CCSID. However procedures can be written to be aware of this issue and be language (ccsid) neutral by passing the ccsid of the source file con...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 6 Not under consideration

Provide proper SQL auditing user/timestamps

Currently there's a mix of SESSION and CLIENT_USERID fields that can be used with Generated Always but the first returns the native account, while the second returns the client account but is blank when executed from SQL on IBM i itself. Please pr...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Not under consideration

Improve diagnostics when routing work by user profile with allow_rollover set to NO and the subsystem is not active

When routing work by user profile with QSYS2.SET_SERVER_SBS_ROUTING, the allow_rollover parameter dictates the behavior if the target subsystem is not active. I always recommend allow_rollover to be NO in a production environment as that allows en...
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 2 Future consideration

Allow path to hod files to be specified so open other will start in the required directory.

I have quite a few systems that I connect to using 5250 sessions and I use the tabbed option. When I click the + sign to start a new tab, which I have set to Start Other, the directory shown is where the last session was started from which commonl...
12 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

INSERT CAST error should provide column name

If a SQL INSERT into a table fails with a SQLSTATE of 22018 (Character in CAST argument not valid), it doesn't provide the column name upon which the CAST failed. Db2 has to know which column it was operating on, it just doesn't provide that to th...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 5 Future consideration

Rdi Debug of RPG Step Over enhancements - EXSR and Exec SQL

Currently when debugging RPG code with RDi, Step Over will step over procedure/function calls but will step into EXSR subroutine calls. It should also step over EXSR subroutine calls. Subroutines have similar use cases to subprocedures (and some s...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Not under consideration

5733-ICC and BRMS - Use just one Image Catalog, instead of one per image

Sometimes BRMS maintenance can't remove old random tape image catalogs created when saving to the cloud, and we need to run the tool one more time or remove manually to fix the issue. If using just 1 image catalog (even with a fixed name) we can e...
4 months ago in IBM i / BRMS 2 Not under consideration