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Allow IFS as source for compiler source files

Provide the ability to compile all object types for the IBM i from IFS based source files. Then allow the git interfaces to push the source files from the IFS to a GIT repository. Use Case: When developing applications I cannot use the IFS to stor...
about 8 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 7 Delivered

Support of Java versions on IBM i beyond Java 8

Java 8 has been the last supported version for 5 years now. It looks like there are no considerations to support version after 8 on IBM i (at least I don't find any information about it). IBM i should also support more recent versions of Java. Use...
about 4 years ago in IBM i / JAVA 7 Delivered

Pre-install ACS Client on IBM i IFS for use by IBM i

As the ACS product can be run natively by IBM i, then it would be ideal if it was automatically installed in one standard place on the system by default. Use Case: Using the IBM ACS client to (acsbundle.jar) to transfer / translate a Db2 for i fil...
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 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...
about 7 years ago in IBM i / Languages - CL (Control Language) 7 Delivered

Template sessions in iACS session manager

Provide the ability to establish a template session in the iACS session manager. New display & printer sessions would be based on this template session so that a standardized (user or enterprise) set of parameters would be used. All session pa...
about 3 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 5 Delivered

Boolean data type in Db2

The boolean datatype seam to be standard in other major database, so it will be a good opportunity to also have bool as a native type in DB2. I know you can use CREATE TYPE BOOL to make you own implementation, however it will not allow direct logi...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 4 Delivered

Allow Navigator for i to use SSL/TLS Host Server ports

Closing/Restricting the Host Server ports to be SSL/TLS only breaks the Navigator for i login page. I was able to point the sign-on server port(8476) to service "as-signon-s" to force it over, but I would like a supported method of doing this to b...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / System Management 6 Delivered

vNIC Takeover needs to much time

vNIC Takeover needs to much time in certain configuration up to 30 sec. According to IBM Support it works as designed.
almost 4 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

Abillity to specify the From Address in SNDSMTPEMM

Currently there is now option in SNDSMTPEMM to specify a From Address like the QtmmSendMail API using a mime file is able to. When many different users are sending emails from the system it will use the current users alias, but this is not accepta...
about 2 years ago in IBM i / Networking 5 Delivered

ACS Change or add New Nav for i

I use ACS a lot. and I have connections to lots of partitions. It would be nice if the 'Navigator for i' could be changed to New Nav for i or Nav4i. If not can it be added to the 'Hardware Management Interface' (which could also be renamed). If so...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Delivered

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