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IBM i

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    TLS 1.3 General support in IBM i OS V7R2 and V7R3

    As we work with a.o. banks, financial service companies and government we need to follow the highest security levels. After the implementation of TLS1.2 we more and more feel the need building up to supporting TLS1.3 in the short term for our clie...
    over 6 years ago in IBM i / Networking 8 Delivered

    DCM - New Digital certificate manager

    The current certificate manager has been a workhorse for any work with certificates over the years. However, it is not heterogeneous integrated into the current ACS (nor web administration). Also visual presentation of certificates, stores and cha...
    over 6 years ago in IBM i / System Management 7 Delivered

    %join() to catenate strings to one string

    In Java there is the method join() to catenate strings into one string including a delimiter. I would like to have a function like this. For example%join( '/' : 'dir' : 'subdir' : 'file.txt')resulting in the string 'dir/subdir/file.txt' or if you ...
    about 4 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 3 Delivered

    Change RPG compiler to require prototypes for exported procedures

    With 7.1 the compiler was changed to not require prototypes for procedures of a RPG module. While that change is great for local procedures, it is really bad for exported procedures, because the compiler does not necessarily validate the prototype...
    almost 8 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 15 Delivered

    Include an "assigned" flag to DCM API to indicate if cert is assigned to an DCM application or not

    There is an API that already exists that allows certificates stored in a DCM store be read and would include expiry date, which is useful. I am not sure what the API is called, but I know that TAATOOL provides a command (CVTCERT) that uses the IBM...
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / Security 6 Delivered

    %PARMS built-in function for CLLE

    Supporting optional parameters in CLLE is made more difficult by the omission of a %PARMS-like built-in function for CLLE similar to that provided for RPGLE. Use Case: %ADDR in CLLE is useful in the case of *OMITted parameters but is not indicated...
    over 8 years ago in IBM i / Languages - CL (Control Language) 7 Delivered

    DEBUG in RDI able to show data in UNICODE

    AS said in https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/forums/html/topic?id=a596866f-3aaa-42a1-b766-04edcb293f19, RDI debug can't show data in UNICODE. i'd like to see UNICODE (GRAPHIC) data in debug mode under RDI. Use Case: RPG program manipula...
    over 7 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 8 Delivered

    SYSTOOLS/GENERATE_SPREADSHEET - Add possibility to export to a specific spreadsheet tab

    Implemented by adding a new parameter "SPREADSHEET_TAB" to the GENERATE_SPREADSHEET function.
    10 months ago in IBM i / Other 1 Delivered

    QUSRBRM.CG_BACKUP_STATUS missing CTLGRP *ARC

    Hello, QUSRBRM.CG_BACKUP_STATUS view is only showing backup related to control group referenced in WRKCTLGBRM *BKU. On our environment the management of journal receiver is done with CTLGRP type *ARC. We want to use the view QUSRBRM.CG_BACKUP_STAT...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 3 Delivered

    RDi show full qualified member name in member comparison

    In a member comparison, only the member name is displayed in the title bar. Use Case: In the case of the same member names in different libraries or source members, it would be helpful which member is displayed on the left and right. Please show t...
    over 4 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Delivered

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