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IBM i

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    Change severity of CPD5D1D message

    When compiling a program in Rational Developer for i (or 5250) a CPD5D1D maybe encountered if objects (modules or service programs) listed in the binding directory don't exist. This is not necessarily an error as long as you don't use procedures o...
    about 1 year ago in IBM i / Application Development 1 Not under consideration

    Suppressing Hardware Problem messages

    We normally get the messages related to any hardware problem on the IBM i O.S which is good if it is on-prem server. But considering a user who has cloud based subscription for an LPAR in the IBM Cloud then these kind of messages doesn't makes any...
    about 1 year ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 2 Not under consideration

    Enable options(*exact) for indicators.

    I am the developer of RPGUNIT and recently I added procedure assertEqual() to it. This procedure handles all data types, because it uses the OVERLOAD keyword for delegating the call to the procedure that is in charge for the data type. dcl-pr asse...
    about 1 year ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 3 Not under consideration
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    Machine pool minimum size setting for path switch.

    Please refer to TS005543906(CritSit(MEC)) . The system is configured with multi-path storage via SAN switch. The serious problem (5250 telnet terminals dropped) happened when the system did path switch. It was because the lack of machine pool and ...
    about 1 year ago in IBM i / Storage 4 Not under consideration

    Declare UTF-8 character lenght in SQL TABLE not in bytes

    Currently, when I create a new table and declare a field, for example, of type CHAR(10) UTF-8, the system only allows for 10 characters if each character is 1 byte in size. If a character occupies 2 or more bytes, the field length is no longer suf...
    about 1 year ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Not under consideration

    Add a current location colunm of a tape on VFYMOVBRM

    On VFYMOVBRM screen there is no information of the current location of a tape, so i need to check with WRKMEDBRM in order to known where are the requested tapes to put in the tape library. Would be easier and faster to have the current location in...
    about 1 year ago in IBM i / BRMS 1 Not under consideration

    EIM System User credential setup on the terminal screen.

    EIM System User can be specified solely on the Navigator i GUI. This limitation makes impossible any automation to follow the security rules and change the password regularly according the security standards. Provide a command to change the passwo...
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / Security 2 Not under consideration

    When Automatic Resize is turned on for 5250 sessions with multiple tabs, make each tab selected resize the window as needed.

    Automatic resize is turned on for a 5250 session with multiple tabs. The first tab displays a 27x132 screen and the window resizes. When the second tab is selected, the window does not resize if that is a 24x80 screen so there is lots of blank spa...
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

    Add format level identifier to journal entries for database journaling

    Today, journaling of database supply a lot of usefull information, but one is missing : the format level identifier, in other words, the description of the fields. Why do I need that ? Because sometimles I change a filed in a file. Then this file ...
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Not under consideration

    Password manager integration in ACS

    It would be great to have an integration where I could store all my passwords in for example 1Password and easily populate user id and password in ACS from there.
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

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