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Improve the performance of PDI Job Watcher Interval Details

When investigating Job Watcher data, Interval Details allows you to get to call stacks and SQL statements. However, it takes a very long time for interval details to display - upwards of a minute or more; it is so slow as to be nearly unusable. Th...
7 months ago in IBM i / Performance Tools 0 Submitted

Enhance PDI to have the option to open drill-downs in new tab

In New Navigator, the Performance Data Investigator supports opening the initial chart in a new tab. However, all drill downs taken on that chart open in the same tab. This is problematic for the following reasons: I often need to look at mulitple...
7 months ago in IBM i / Performance Tools 1 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.
over 3 years ago in IBM i / Db2 Web Query 3 Not under consideration

Provide ARD Program(s) for non-Db2 Connect from IBM i

WRKRDBDIRE supports *ARDPGM but none are provided, by IBM. The system needs the easy abilitty to connect to non-Db2 database systems, like MariaDB, SQL Server using SQL via *ARDPGM. Provide basic support (perhaps using ODBC or JDBC drivers) for re...
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 8 Not under consideration

Allow keyboard input in iACS Printer Output

The Printer Output component in IBM i Access Client Solutions doesn't allow keyboard input. For example, Set Filter doesn't recognize the ENTER key. The grid of spooled files doesn't recognize the the DELETE or ENTER keys. Use Case: I need to filt...
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Future consideration

Please finish/complete the integration of long SQL names into Db2 for i

When Long SQL Names are used, you can only rename those object using the SQL RENAME statement. However, RENAME supports only TABLEs, VIEWs, and INDEXes. Which means *FILE objects only. Sequences, Variables, Functions, Procedures, and the myriad ot...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Future consideration

RETURN value from REXX Procedure to CL/ILE via STRREXPRC

Thank you IBM for providing an easy means of passing parameters *to* a REXX procedure via the STRREXPRC command. However, unlike the CALLPRC command, there is no RTNVAL parameter on the STRREXPRC command to provide an easy means of receiving a val...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Languages - CL (Control Language) 1 Not under consideration

SQL-Scripts improvements

When using "SQL-Scripts" it would be helpful, when i could jump to the last result of the SQL.on native STRSQL i can write "b" for button and "t" for top.Please provide a option to jump to the end/top.Hotkey F17/F18 would be nice+ Hotkey F19/20 fo...
about 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Not under consideration

vFC Mappings and Live Partition Mobility

You can do multiple vFC mappings on one physical FC port for IBM i, that is supported. But if you want to do LPM, that is not possible.This is of course very bad, one customer got stuck with it.We are currently rebuilding, and that is only possibl...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 1 Not under 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

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