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IBM i

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Consolidate documentation for Services and documentation for the system catalog into one area.

Instead of placing the documentation for IBM i Services underneath "Performance and query optimization" move it to "Db2 for i catalog views". Take these links: Db2® for i Services: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.5?topic=optimization-db2-i-service...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 9 Future consideration

Add SO_REUSEPORT socket option

It would be great to have SO_REUSEPORT socket option on IBM i. This would allow to load balance traffic between multiple jobs that listen on the same socket, better failover in case of job termination etc.
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Networking 2 Under review

Stack trace in joblog

The lob log has been for ages been the best way to find post mortem issues with applications. However the job log was designed back in time where the call stack was typical not huge. Applications of today have huge call stacks and goes through var...
5 months ago in IBM i / Core OS 5 Not under consideration

Show tables and columns used in embedded SQL statements in structure view

The structure view displays in an extremely complete way all the uses of files, formats and zones by the native instructions (dcl-f, read, update ...). On the other hand, all the files and zones used by static SQL statements do not appear, which ...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Future consideration

OpenID-Connect integration with IBM HTTP server for i

Add OpenID-Connect to the existing authentication methods that are supported by the IBM HTTP server for i.
7 months ago in IBM i / Web Serving 1 Submitted

Provide SQL service that validates a character variable etc. as a valid OS name

Why is it useful? Currently there is functionality within the OS to validate a character string as a name. Command definitions provide this and CHECK keyword in display files too. There is no equivalent in SQL. We have several stored procedures th...
3 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Future consideration

While debugging in Visual Studio Code (SEP), able to mouseover an RPG variable starting with a special character

Currently, the mouseover only works for RPG program variables that do not start with a special character. It would be a great idea to add the same capability for RPG variables that start with a special character.
21 days ago in IBM i / Application Development 0 Submitted

Able to debug using SEP in Visual Studio Code when a data library is set to *PROD

When debugging using a native (green) screen, you can specify STRDBG UPDPROD(*YES). When using SEP in Visual Studio Code, there is no way to specify this, therefore, we can't use the SEP in Visual Studio Code if the library attribute is set to *PROD.
21 days ago in IBM i / Application Development 0 Submitted

New op-code RCV-MSG or enhancement of ON-EXCP/ON-EXIT

When sending an escape message with SND-MSG it is easy to catch that exception with MONITOR and ON-EXCP. But to receive the message (especially the message data), remove the message from the job log or re-send the message up the call stack, we sti...
9 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 2 Not under consideration

Improve ARE (Administration Runtime Expert) Scheduler to allow a SysAdmin to Manage the ARE Tasks

We find ARE (Administration Runtime Expert) to be a fantastically useful Tool for monitoring and fixing IBM i Systems. Currently IBM ARE has it's own job scheduler to allow you to run templates automatically, which is ideal However, the ARE schedu...
5 months ago in IBM i / System Management 2 Future consideration

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