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Relaxe the restriction for the QUALIFIED keyword use on LIKEDS strucctures.

When coding RPG IV, I use Templates and the LIKEDS keyword, and also use non-Template data structures with the LIKEDS keyword. RPG IV muscle memory instinctively has me writing: DCL-DS myStruct Qualified LIKEDS(struct_tmpl) Inz(*LIKEDS); The probl...
3 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 1 Not under consideration

%elem on enum

I would like to define the size of my dim array depending on the number of elements of my enum. Example : dcl-enum my_enum qualified; value1 const('1'); value2 const('2'); end-enum; dcl-s my_array char(1) dim(%elem(my_enum));
3 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 1 Functionality already exists

Live Partition Mobility: Allow overrides of CPU and LPAR ID on target CEC

For hosted environments, moving a partition from P9 to P10, for example, is often not at CPU-for-CPU but at CPW-for-CPW (e.g. 15000 CPW = 1 CPU on a 9009-22a but not on a 9105-22a). And LPAR ID is automagically assigned.This is counter-productive,...
3 months ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 4 Submitted

Add the ability to execute a custom AcsConfig.properties in a specific folder when calling acsbundle.jar

I have to deploy ACS in a customer Citrix environnement, with different categories of user and with specific needs (limited access to IFS folders, no SQL client connections for just one category, ...).My intent would be to create as many AcsConfig...
3 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Future consideration

Add more functionality to *VAR and *AUTO arrays

I really love the new *AUTO and *VAR arrays, I use them quite often. I would really like more functionality to be added, like the methods available for JavaScript arrays. Some examples assuming an Array "A20" with dim(*auto:20) : I gather a set of...
3 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 2 Not under consideration

Enhance IBM SQL Services to use better "list" parameter parsing

I’d like to request an enhancement to IBM i SQL Services to improve flexibility when passing multiple values to parameters that accept lists. Currently, the following syntax does not work: table(qsys2.active_job_info(subsystem_list_filter=>'QIN...
3 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 4 Future consideration

Custom SQLSTATE/MESSAGE for SIGNAL statement

Currently it is possible with the SIGNAL statement to return a custom SQLSTATE and message. DECLARE COUNTRY_NOT_FOUND CONDITION FOR SQLSTATE '02000'; DECLARE EXIT HANDLER FOR COUNTRY_NOT_FOUND SIGNAL SQLSTATE '75001' SET MESSAGE_TEXT = 'Country no...
3 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Future consideration

Insert scripts from custom examples

Hello, after installing version 1.1.9.7, I can't insert my custom scripts; In the previous version there was a button that did that. Is there a new option to do so? Thanks in advance
3 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Functionality already exists

WRKFCNUSG Auditing

It would be nice if any adds/changes/deletes that occur when using the WRKFCNUSG process would be tracking in the Security Audit Journal for the logical replication apps can keep the authorities in sync between SRC and TGT replication sets.
3 months ago in IBM i / Security 1 Functionality already exists

Review multithread capability for OS commands

In these days where access to the IBM is no longer restricted to 5250 sessions, batch jobs etc., the usage of multithreaded applications is becoming more prevalent. This includes, but is not limited to, PASE & SSH. Whilst those environments ca...
3 months ago in IBM i / Core OS 2 Future consideration