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    Enable a description to be added to system reply list entries

    When you use the wrkrpyle command you see a list of Message ID's which is quite meaningless. I recently was investigating at a new site where there were a lot of reply list messages and no site documentation so I worked through the messages to det...
    8 months ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 1 Not under consideration

    Add Transfer Data Rate to ACS IFS file Upload/Download interface

    The addition of a Data rate transfer information is useful telemetry data for IBM i SysAdmins and Networking specialists. The addition of this calculation (in addition to the simple percentage complete) data would help to monitor, diagnose and res...
    6 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

    Modernize the 5250 display

    Hello, One of the recurring critiques when discussing ibmi is related to the 'green screens.' They are associated with an aging image of the machine. I absolutely do not share this opinion, but I hear it too often. Since IBMi can manage a multitud...
    6 months ago in IBM i / Core OS 3 Not under consideration

    Allow multiple definitions in a Dcl-s statement

    A very usefull future I found in other languages is multiple variable definition in one line of code: Dcl-s a b c int(10); is clearly faster and shorter than: Dcl-s a int(10);Dcl-s b int(10);Dcl-s c int(10); Use Case: nd
    almost 7 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 6 Not under consideration

    Allow Standalone Field Declarations to Reference Subfields of Nested DS Arrays

    Declaring a standalone field with a reference field (keyword: LIKE) should work if the referenced field is a subfield of a data structure array in a nested data structure. Use Case: dcl-ds DS_A qualified template; dcl-ds DS_Arr_B dim(10); field1 v...
    over 4 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 5 Not under consideration

    Allow for profile changes during LPM to save downtime on systems

    An lpar with min 1G, desired 10G and max 16G memory profile, requires a reboot and profile change to move the min or max numbers to anything else. Since during an LPM it first creates a new profile on the target frame, sure would be nice if say th...
    11 months ago in PowerVM VIOS 2 Not under consideration

    Require QIBM_DB_SECADM or similar to perform set session authorization

    Today any user with *ALLOBJ is able to do the equivalent to sudo in Linux without the need of any password to become another user using set session authorization via SQL. Any user with *ALLOBJ can become Qsecofr by open strsql and run: “Set sessio...
    about 3 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 5 Not under consideration

    Native CLOB and BLOB in RPG

    CLOB and BLOB fields as dynamic size dependent on actual datasize. It would be appreciated that RPG could support these datatypes native in RPG and used exactly like varchar with out any explicit size Use Case: CLOB and BLOB is implemented as a st...
    almost 7 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 3 Not under consideration

    RGZPFM option MBR(*ALL )

    Enable the use *ALL on option MBR for the RGZPFM command for a hash partitioned table.
    about 1 year ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Not under consideration

    RUNRMTCMD equivalent command for IBM i Access Client Solutions.

    RUNRMTCMD was available in IBM i Access for Windows (iAWin) but not in IBM i Access Client Solutions (i ACS). Up until Service Pack (SP) SI57907, when RUNRMTCMD is issued, the desktop application would launch and user is able to view the applicati...
    almost 9 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

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