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IBM i

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Allow Kerberos to be specified by connection

Currently Kerberos Authentication (SSO) can only be specified for all connections. It would be preferred to specify authentication options by connection. My normal programmer profile does not have *CHANGE authority to production programs as requir...
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Future consideration

GraalVM

With the new upcoming version 11 of Java and beyond, the "classic" script engines of JavaScript and Python will be discontinued. Nashor and Jython will disappear in favor of running Java, Python, JavaScript, and more on the common VM - the GraalVM...
about 4 years ago in IBM i / JAVA 3 Not under consideration

Include Left Hand Indicators in Outline

Please include Left Hand indicators in the Outline. they currently don't get picked up. Use Case: .
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 9 Future consideration

Screensize in DSPF

Today in a DSPF you have the option for DSPSIZ:24x80 *DS327x132 *DS4 Would it possible for the 5250 datastream to add a third option like:21x28 *DS2 additionally would it possible to add a larger screen size as *ds5? Use Case: A normal user have a...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Add long username for addition to current userprofile to enable login with longer usernames on smb, ftp, web or odbc etc

With the long password we can use passwords > 10 chars.Maybe it is possible to add a additional field to the usrprf to enable logins from all others then green screen with longer usernames.
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Security 1 Not under consideration

No option output to Print when restore using BRMS (WRKMEDBRM)

When restoration are run using WRKMEDBRM there are no option to specify output *Print so when there are many objects not restored its difficult to check in DSPLOGBRM as no output generated to shows total restored and total not restored Use Case: S...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 4 Not under consideration

CBU keys generation

CBU. keys are not being generated automatically in the upgrade processs Use Case: When ordering an IBM i upgrade on the IBM ESS site, only part of the process is handled automatically. IBM i 5770SS1 keys are being generated automatically, but CBU ...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Install and Upgrade and Licensing 4 Not under consideration

possibility to specify what decimal character %char() should use

I'm missing the possibility to specify what decimal character should be used in %char() overriding the control specification DECEDIT keyword. The standard european character is comma instead of point. But sometimes when generating CSV or XML files...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 2 Future consideration

i access for web product 5722-XH2 using URL interfaces

in the database link you can create a new sql request (the http link is >>http://SYSTEM_IBMI:PORT/webaccess/iWADbRequests<<) but the output is not possibile in the xlsx format , but only in xls or csv or xml . So if you whant the expor...
about 2 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

to allow SST function to reset Hardware Service Manager (HSM) use count if it is abandoned by someone else.

to allow SST function to reset Hardware Service Manager (HSM) use count if it is abandoned by someone else. Use Case: We had to IPL to recover from a locked SST session in order to be able to swicth over with PPRC. PMR 40611,000,871
over 5 years ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 2 Not under consideration