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IBM i

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Ctrl / behavior enhancement request

I would like to request an enhancement to RDi for the Ctrl / and Ctrl \ key functions so that they either perform the "new" way which is consistent with Eclispe, or, the keystrokes perform as they did prior to the installation of Version: 9.6.0.12...
about 2 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Future consideration

Visual explain in tree-grid form

It is great to have visual explain back in ACS. However, my customers complains that is is not easy to pin-point where the bottlenecks are in the graph. An alternative view would be appreciated where a tree-grid show the percentage of time in each...
about 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 6 Not under consideration

Information about different drivers to connect to iseries

We'd like to get a (really complete) documentation of all possibilities to connect a windows pc to the iSeries.There exists a lot of drivers and software solutions. What we are missing is to see the difference between them.E.g. i Series Access ODB...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 6 Not under consideration

Enhancement Nbr 3 for Adding Additional User Information to the BRMS Recovery Report - QP1ARCY

Adding Additional User Information to the BRMS Recovery Report is a great way to get customer or system specific information into the recovery reporthttps://helpsystemswiki.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/IWT/pages/165642305/Adding+Additional+User+Infor...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 3 Not under consideration

Enhancement Nbr 1 for Adding Additional User Information to the BRMS Recovery Report - QP1ARCY

Adding Additional User Information to the BRMS Recovery Report is a great way to get customer or system specific information into the recovery reporthttps://helpsystemswiki.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/IWT/pages/165642305/Adding+Additional+User+Infor...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 3 Not under consideration

improve performances of DB2 sequences

I like the principle of DB2 sequences, but there is a big problem with the implementation of it on IBM i. Indeed, the command CREATE SEQUENCE does not generate a real DB2 object, It generates an IBM i object of DATA AREA type. However, DATA AREAs ...
about 2 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 5 Not under consideration

Ability to filter CPI1150 "not waiting for specific message" MSGW jobs

We use mostly SQL calls to monitor our IBM i partitions.A common issue we come across on various partitions is jobs that are in status MSGW but are not waiting for a specific message (CPI1150 when you put a 7 on them in WRKACTJOB). These jobs are ...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 4 Future consideration

Ship Ruby with 5733OPS

Include Ruby as 5733OPS option. Use Case: We need a clean build of Ruby MRI. We actually use JRuby to develop our API. With recent PASE improvements (GCC, ...), we want to leave JRuby to use Ruby MRI. Ruby MRI will increase performances of our pro...
about 8 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 1 Not under consideration

Provide virtual FTP directory

Allow a user to be locked in a specific FTP directory... this directory should be his virtual root. Use Case: It is now possible to set an initial FTP directory via an exit program, however once logged on the user can still perform a cd /someother...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / Networking 22 Not under consideration

Improvement of existing CCSID 1388 to cater latest China National Standard 13080-2022

Recently China Information technology authority announced the latest national Chinese coded character set GB18030-2022 and make it mandatory for all the banking industry. There are a lot of new rarely use character set added into this GB18030-2022...
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 5 Future consideration

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