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IBM i

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Include Emulator/pdfpdt directory in export and on import/create the directory if it does not exist.

Customers using PDTs for 5250 printer emulation sessions with a pdt must have the pdt file in Emulator/pdfpdt directory. However this is not included when exporting from a template configuration for deployment and so is missing on target import, c...
4 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Future consideration

Macro with value='attn' not working - consistantly

I spoke with Dwayne Bowers about this issue in Anaheim this spring at COMMON's PowerUp conference. In this macro example, I access our attention menu, make a selection, then enter in two values on the program called. There appears to be a race con...
4 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

Remove permissions from catalog files

Here is a reproducible example Signon on QSECOFR or a profil with *secadm create a table CREATE TABLE LIB.CLIENTBQ ( NUMERO DEC ( 5) NOT NULL WITH DEFAULT, NOM CHAR ( 20) NOT NULL WITH DEFAULT, IBAN CHAR ( 14) NOT NULL WITH DEFAULT) remove public ...
4 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Future consideration

5733-ICC API to delete a no longer needed directory

There are cloud APIs to copy to, copy from cloud as well as one to remove a file from cloud. However if you file has a directory structure there is no way to remove any of those directories.
4 months ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 2 Submitted

Allow 5733-ICC APIs to be thread safe.

Any one who wanted to use the Cloud APIs in a threaded environment.
4 months ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 0 Submitted

Google Pub/Sub support on IBMi OS

We have tried to develop a solution to interact with Google Pub/Sub directly on the IBMi and have been unable to due to restrictions related to the processor on the IBMi. This has included attempts to run a Python coded solution on the IBMi direct...
4 months ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 4 Submitted

Embedded SQL - SQLTYPE xLOB_FILE with CCSID

Since release 7.2 variables in RPG can be defined with a CCSID. With embedded SQL it is possible to read from the IFS and writing into the IFS with (static) SQL SELECT-Statements just by specifying a xLOB_FILE. A xLOB_FILE must be defined in compo...
4 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Under review

Integrated File System tool: Allow us to change the size of the font

In ACS's Integrated File System tool the font is too small. I want to be able, like I can in other ACS tools, adjust the size of the font.
4 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

Provide hash_row functionality to UDTF, Stored procedure that returns table, Cover all columns of a View over multiple tables.

hash_row is an handy function to get hash/check sum value of the complete row. However there are exceptions. Expanding that benefit to all exceptions will be very helpful.
4 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Not under consideration

Suggested versions of IBM i support for new Power Systems

Power 8 (generally) supports IBM i 7.1-7.4 Power 9 (generally) supports IBM i 7.2-7.5 Power 10 supports IBM i 7.3-7.6 (and, if the pattern holds) likely not iNext Power 11 supports IBM i 7.4-7.6 and likely iNext I propose that new systems should s...
4 months ago in IBM i / Core OS 0 Submitted