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Provide the LPP Option when providing CVE Security bulletins

When reviewing the Security bulletins published from IBM they mention the PTF (Program Temporary Fix) Id that will fix the problem and the LPP (Licensed Program Product) but they do not mention the LPP option. With most LPP's there is only a singl...
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / Security 4 Future consideration

Action description for own spooled file actions made by QIBM_QSP_SPLF_LSTACT exit point

The QIBM_QSP_SPLF_LSTACT exit point for creating user defined spooled file actions is a very nice feature that we use extensively and want to use even more in the future. But, there should be the possibility to show the descriptions of the user de...
about 5 years ago in IBM i / Print 2 Not under consideration

Add an API or similar option to an existing API to get all messages for a specified Job

Today if you need all messages for an ACTIVE Job you have the Joblog Message APIs, and if you extract the Exception Message Queue for the job you also have that msg queue. But in the context of a Scheduled Job that runs and has finished processing...
11 months ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 6 Not under consideration

Drag and Drop Procedures in RDI from the outline view

Drag and Drop Procedures in RDI from the outline view to help refactor code. Use Case: It would be helpful to be able to move RPG procedures in the source code using the outline view instead of resorting to moving it manually. I've found it quite ...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Future consideration

Add native DB2 support for UUID columns

Add a new native data type of UUID to store standard 128-bit UUID values in a native type. Also add SQL functions to generate a new UUID, convert UUID to/from canonical string representations (xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx), and the ability...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Not under consideration

Include the Message File and library in the QUSEC (ERRC0100 or ERRC0200) when returning messages from APIs

Today, when the QUSEC struct is passed to an API, the MSGID and MSGDTA values are returned. However the Message File from which the message was retrieved/sent is not provided. This causes an issue with messages such as GUI0002 or SQLxxxx that do n...
11 months ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 1 Not under consideration

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 6 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 3 Not under consideration

ACS - Support Defining Multiple System Configs for one Server

Right now you con only define one Configuration for a given system.It would be nice to have the ability to define multiple Configurations to a single system that have different settings like user name and what not. Use Case: I am doing work as a d...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 6 Not under consideration

Hide EULA agreement in .properties file

It would be great if the EULA agreement could be disabled from being seen by use of a parameter in the .properties file. The current "silent" EULA solution for ACS involves running a .js script in "Admin Config" mode. My current deployment however...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

Make ibm more strong

Because ibm acadmic website is too buffer
6 months ago in IBM i / Db2 Web Query 1 Not under consideration

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