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Allow Unabbreviated RPG Freeform Data Type Keywords

Please change the SQL precompiler, RPG compiler, and Rational Developer for i to also recognize and allow the unabbreviated forms of the RPG freeform data type keywords. Use Case: For example, ucs2 is fine as it is. But, allow: integer for intindi...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 3 Not under consideration

Allow CL to Pass Strings to RPG OPTIONS(*STRING) Parameters

Please allow the CALLPRC command to pass a string to an RPG procedure parameter that is defined as POINTER OPTIONS(*STRING). Use Case: Currently, I still have to pass a pointer to such a parameter: dcl &p_code *ptr | chgvar &code 'AAT990' ...
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / Languages - CL (Control Language) 1 Not under consideration

ACS - Run SQL window in tabs

Currently, in ACS run SQL, is only one window whre you can run your sql statements. It would be more comfortable if there are more windows, grouped in tabs, where you can run your sql scripts.similar as 5250 display session, there you can have mor...
about 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 5 Not under consideration

Include the port in the ssh connection configuraction for the ACS Opensource packages Manager

The ACS Opensource packages Manager does not work if the sshd in the ibm i is configured to use a different port than 22.
10 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Functionality already exists

Port of tesseract OCR to the open source packages

Tesseract optical character recognition engine port to IBM will provide convenience and lower costs in building image-processing applications. Reasons for this poer are the followingThe first reason is convenience -- the C++ version of Tesseract c...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 3 Planned for future release

Enable Retrieval of SQL constraint violation error information in RPG program

Current RPG support requires programmers to use IBM i APIs plus considerable coding to determine what constraint has caused an error. For example, when using an SQL insert on table, where a check or foreign key constraint is used, a violation of t...
about 5 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 3 Not under consideration

Provide enhancement to BRMS that will allow restoration of *ALLUSR which can be submitted to batch

I am requesting an enhancement to BRMS which will provide the ability to perform restore operations in batch with STRRCYBRM using the control group specified from a STRBKUBRM. After implementing PowerHA with iASP, we have to keep 12 servers SYSBAS...
about 3 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 6 Future consideration

Process to meet Department of Defense or NIST Media Sanitization Standards

IBM currently does not have a process that has been vetted to meet that DoD or NIST compliance level for Disk Sanitization. There used to be a product called "Disk Sanitizer" available from our lab services team for purchase but that was sunset du...
about 1 year ago in IBM i / Storage 1 Under review

Provide access to Null Indicator for SQL Variables in inline C code

When creating SQL Functions, we have the ability to use the INCLUDE statement to include inline C code. However, when an SQL Variable is referenced in that C code, there is no practical method to set on or off the variable's NULL Indicator. We nee...
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Future consideration

Functions for shift operations - logical, arithmetic and circular ( rotation ) shift

We have many different ways of manipulating bits in RPG via %bitand() %bitor() etc, but I'm missing shift operations on expressions like it is done with %bitand() and %bitor(). it could be a logical shift function %SHL() or %SHR() ( shift left / r...
about 3 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 5 Not under consideration

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