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IBM i

heredoc syntax for large literals

When developing SQLRPG programs, I frequently have to deal with large multiline literal strings for defining SQL statements. I have in fact exceeded the size limit of a string literal in the past. It would be nice to have a HEREDOC syntax for assi...
almost 10 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG Not under consideration

Make Content Assist/Autocomplete work with LikeRec & File Formats

Autocomplete for LikeRec does not offer up the files that are defined. Please have it do so. Autocomplete also doesn't bring up formats for files. I noticed this with a delete of a record from a qualified file. (I qualify all files in my programs....
over 10 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) Not under consideration

Command (CRTCMD) to also run SQL stored procedures and functions

Today you can create commands to be used from command line and build them into CL programs. CL commands works as parameter wrappers and calls programs. It will be great if the command concept also could be extended to be able to directly call SQL ...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / Languages - CL (Control Language) Not under consideration

Provide DKIM signing to the SMTP server/client on IBM i

DomainKeys Identified Mail, or DKIM, is an authentication protocol that links a domain name to a message. The protocol allows you to sign your email with your domain name. The purpose of the DKIM protocol is not only to prove that the domain name ...
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / Networking Not under consideration

Enhancements to RPG should be reflected in a target release number that we can compile to.

You are publishing more and more enhancements to the RPG language which I find good. But this also gives us problems because the runtime environments are not backwards compatible. When new releases are published we normally install it on our test ...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG Not under consideration

Work with IP connections > show current user

When using WRKTCPSTS OPTION(*CNN) the system offers filtering options using F15. There is a lack of filtering by user name (which is possible using Navigator for i - column filtering) to find a specific user connection.By the way - the user name s...
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / Networking Not under consideration

IBM i ACS Client - Lock down connection settings for Single Sign On

We recently configured SSO for deployment and will be using Kerberos for authentication. We currently are using AD for authentication to the AS/400. A user could circumvent the client configuration for IBM i signon information and change "Use Kerb...
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family Not under consideration

Full system restore enhancement when restoring from both *FULL and *CUML saves.

The last defense in a DR strategy is restoring a whole system from tapes using the recovery report (QP1ARCY) and that is a very time consuming task. If the backup strategy is done by using *FULL backups, maybe once a week, and *CUML the rest of th...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / BRMS Not under consideration

Nested calculated columns in SQL

Today you are not allowed to use nested result columns in calculations and expressions. The work around is to rewrite the statement to use common table expression. This, however, removes the focus from what need to be done - just to satisfy the na...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i Not under consideration

Provide proper SQL auditing user/timestamps

Currently there's a mix of SESSION and CLIENT_USERID fields that can be used with Generated Always but the first returns the native account, while the second returns the client account but is blank when executed from SQL on IBM i itself. Please pr...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i Not under consideration

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