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IBM i

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wrkjobscde table

Hi IBMer, In order for us to process the wrkjobscde table, we have to output to a spool file, then feed it in into a program, etc which is rather awkward. Would you be kind to please provide a facility for us to query the table entries of workjobs...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 3 Not under consideration

Enable better time staggering for performance gathering and other tools

The IBM i performance collecting feature is only capable of being scheduled at the hourly minutes of 00, 15, 30, & 45. Essentially, the top, right, bottom, and left of the hour - which happens to be very inconvenient given other workloadsSince...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Performance Tools 2 Not under consideration

Multi-select in IBM Navigator for I - Specially job logs for active jobs

Allow multi-select in the IBM Navigator for i web client. Use Case: I need to identify which service job (QZDASOINIT running for particular user) is running a particular process. In the deprecated System i Navigator client, I multi-select all the ...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / System Management 2 Future consideration

QUHDSPH API Window border type

The 'QUHDSPH' API display a panelgroup help text in a window, however the window border is hardcoded to the 'dotted line' characters. When not hardcoding window border characters, IBM i ACS displays the window border in a nice 3D-effect which is n...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / Languages - Other 2 Future consideration

Better Cumulative PTF display

When doing an option 8 from Go PTF, when installing say PTFs from an image catalogue, the display refreshes very quickly as it loads the PTFs Tracking the progress is difficult as particularly the message at the bottom of the screen showing the pr...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 3 Future consideration

Show Properties of Modules in Program Objects in RDI

RDi should display module source and service information for ILE programs like it does for OPM when a program is compiled with *DEBUG information. Some source information is available indirectly thru the Application Diagram, but it should be more ...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Future consideration

Request for improvement of space padding when transferring data in UTF16LE

Please refer to AAA.jpg for the data on the host side. If you specify text format (UTF16LE) when transferring this data and receive it, the number of blank characters in the received text will change. (See AAA_UTF16LE.txt) This phenomenon does not...
8 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

Add options to TRUNCATE to support clearing a single partition (member)

The SQL TRUNCATE statement currently only supports removing data from the entire table, even when run against an ALIAS created against a single partition. Use Case: Fast truncation of a single partition (member), just like CLRPFM with a specific m...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Future consideration

New and modern type of subfile

Many of us asked to improve the subfiles, but all requests failed. Probably because the part of the operating system that mange subfiles contain old code and it is hard to do any changes. Suggestion: introduce a new type of subfiles, that will be ...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 4 Not under consideration

Tool or job to query ESS and update OS keys

Currently OS keys for CBU systems need to be updated annually.Also, OS keys need to be either downloaded from ESS, which is often problematic, or manually installed. It would be helpful to have an OS based tool that could be used to - from the OS ...
about 2 years ago in IBM i / Install and Upgrade and Licensing 3 Future consideration

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