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IBM i

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Please add option to specify the source location as an option when starting debug in the GUI/Java /system debugger

When using the IBM i System debugger (GUI/Java) and starting the debugger it asks for the program name and library. If the source is not where the object was compiled from, you cannot specify where the source can be found. Use Case: At this compan...
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 3 Future consideration

ACTIVE_JOB_INFO: Add how long job has been at DSPW

Not ready to leap into QINACTITV. Would rather analyze ACTIVE_JOB_INFO first. Trying to see how long a job has been in DSPW status. Use Case: High Availability: Lock on spool files conflicting with replication software.Security: Are they leaving t...
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 3 Not under consideration

Add round() function to ILE C/C++ (math.h)

We need to use the round() function in ILE C/C++. Currently it is not included in the header math.h. The function is from the C99 standard. z/OS has also support for it: https://www.ibm.com/docs/pl/zos/2.4.0?topic=functions-round-roundf-roundl-rou...
about 1 year ago in IBM i / Languages - Other 2 Future consideration

get_xml_file() need to be encoding agnostic

The get_xml_file() is a fantastic tool to load XML files from the IFS. However it will fail if data is stored in utf-16LE format.
about 2 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Future consideration

Enable RDi to support leading and/or trailing comments on statements.

RDi hovering reveals comments when they "lead" a line of code. This works great. Some developers code "trailing" comments. Could RDi employ a preference to control the scope of comments included in a hover window? Use Case: Example. Here is a dcl-...
about 3 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Future consideration

WebQuery: Can not see a PF when create a synonym

WebQuery: Can not see a PF table name when create a synonym if the PF system table name is different. Use Case: Search a PF table name for create a synonym not show but if search a PF system table name it is showed.
about 3 years ago in IBM i / Db2 Web Query 3 Not under consideration

Hosted IBM i PWRDWNSYS integration missing

When you have on an IBM i system a guest partition running IBM i, the vary on can start the partition. The vary off does not power down the partition in an orderly manner. When you run hosted Linux or AIX a vary of will shut the partition down in ...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 5 Future consideration

Table Reorganizations

Table Reorganizations option from Iseries Navigator does not periodically update the status of rows being reorganized. It waits until end to provide status. IBM developer went into tasks and processes and found what the count of rows re-org was. W...
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 4 Not under consideration

Create shortcut for eval(h) so user doesn't need to type in eval(h)

When performing calculations where we want to round-up, instead of typing Result = (Factor1 - Factor2) * Factor3; we need to type eval(h) Result = (Factor1 - Factor2) * Factor3; It would be nice if that could be simplified to Result(h) = (Factor1 ...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 4 Not under consideration

Update PASE equivalent AIX TL level

PASE in IBM i7.2 is based on AIX 7.1 TL1 and PASE in IBM i7.3 is based on AIX 7.1 TL3 neither of which are supported releases of AIX anymore. It would be very helpful to have PASE updated to a current TL (Technology Level) equivalency at least as ...
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 2 Future consideration

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