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Provide an IBM i Service to return information similar to DSPACTPJ

DSPACTPJ has useful information for tuning the performance of prestart jobs. However, there is no outfile support on this command, nor is there an equivalent API. It would be nice to return this information in a manner that can be used programmati...
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 2 Delivered

SNMP for large ASP/IASP

SNMP result for ASP/IASP size and allocation cannot go over 64 TB.The maximum disk unit size is 32768. Is possible increase this value to 65536 (max 128 TB) or more? Thanks Use Case: At the moment our iSeries has 45 TB IASP and we can monitor usin...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / Networking 3 Delivered

Enhancements to QDBSRV jobs

When the QDBSRV jobs are hours behind (have a large amount of requests to process) a rename of a library can take hours because a flush request is done to make sure all work for the QDBSRV jobs and IASP QDBSRV jobs are complete. Refer to PMR 20228...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Delivered

Debugging CL programs: Display variable content in Tooltip when mouse-hover

When debugging a CL programm, the content of variables is not displayed in the tooltip at mouse hover over a variable. Use Case: every debug of an CL program, when you want to see the content of a variable.
almost 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Delivered

Is there a way to change QSQSVCDMP not to use QSYSPRT file

This is regarding a request we got from customer about routing of files QSQSVCDMP to outqueue QEZDEBUG,Issue description: Is it possible to redirect QSQSVCDMP to QEZDEBUG outq, It is currently directed directly to user outq and is printed. Many fi...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Delivered

Support compiler directives /if /endif for findMatch

resently, in RPGLE, findMatch will go to the corresponding start/end of a block for if, doX, etc as well as for (). Compiler directives /if, /endif are not supported currently. This RFE is asking that they be added for match and findMatch (ctrl-M ...
almost 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Delivered

Access Client Solution button function similar to Access for Windows

When using Access for Windows, you can use your mouse to double click elements on the screen such as F-keys at the bottom to perform those functions. With ACS, that ability has been lost. Requesting that the function be mirrored from Access for Wi...
about 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Delivered

Live Outline doesn't work with User-Associated Member Types

In RDP, you can associate a member type with a parser. Menu Option: Window > Preferences > LPEX Editor > Parsers > Parser Associations. These non-standard member/document types have been causing the Live Outline to return an error dial...
about 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Delivered

ACS run SQL scripts - switch header for result columns

In ACS run SQL script we need an easy way to switch the column heading between fieldnames and the label-text.At the moment you need to change, in the JDBC-setting (tab-Other), the header for the result columns between column-name and column-label....
about 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered

Java File class getCanonicalFile does not support all Unicode characters

The Java File class methods getCanonicalFile and getCanonicalPath call a native ILE function that is dependent on the current job CCSID.This limits the range of Unicode characters that can be supported.Java is a Unicode language and the IFS file s...
about 8 years ago in IBM i / JAVA 2 Delivered

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