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Document Display_Journal_Entry_Info

Found this undocumented feature Display_Journal_Entry_InfoI'd like it documented and supported. Use Case: Bust apart the journal entry data.
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Not under consideration

Local Network Speed Test

This feature would allow ACS to help a user test the speed from their computer to the server. This could, potentially via the SSH protocol, write a file to the /tmp directory while logging transfer time, then download that same file after logging ...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Not under consideration

Default 5250 Session Font

Hello, Please make the ACS - PCOMM SESSION font the default font for 5250 screens. I was frustrated with the ACS 5250 screens not using all the windows space of my sessions, but I change my font the PCOMM SESSION and now it perfect. Using all of w...
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Not under consideration

STRDBG should support showing variables for a selected recursive level

In ILE Cobol you can use the keyword "IS RECURSIVE" so that this program can be called recursively. To have own storage for each recursive call you can define these variables under "LOCAL-STORAGE SECTION". Currently the debugger (STRDBG) can only ...
almost 3 years ago in IBM i / Languages - Other 1 Future consideration

Port IBM NoSQL Wire Listener for DB2 to IBM i

With the IBM NoSQL Wire Listener for DB2 it is possible to use existing Applications that use MongoDB as their Database together with DB2 without changing the App.It runs on all Versions of DB2 except the DB2 for i. Details are here:https://www.ib...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Not under consideration

Allow current date usage in RDi snippet controls

The snippet view allows you to create dynamic variables, using "${varname}" string formatting. Allow the current date constant value to be selected. Use Case: I have some snippets I use, with variables to represent the current date. I have to cons...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Not under consideration

Log information to QHST when someone or something clears QSYSOPR message queue.

Makes it easy to identify who or what cleared the message queue.
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 1 Not under consideration

Include OBJATTRIBUTE in resultSet from OBJECT_STATISTICS when object name is *ALLSIMPLE

If possible and without impacting performance, please include the OBJATTRIBUTE column with the results when OBJECT_STATISTICS is generating the fast list of objects due to *ALLSIMPLE being specified on the 3rd (object name) parameter. Use Case: Ne...
about 4 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Not under consideration

Fix your ideas portal to allow a daily digest or just to introduce each new idea.

I'm already overwhelmed by hundreds of emails per day. I don't need to get an email for every idea and comment for that idea that's added within the categories I'm interested in. Why does this new approach have to completely ignore what worked in ...
almost 3 years ago in IBM i / Other 4 Not under consideration

IWS wizard for creating or updating a web service: give the choice to save it as QSH script

In a world where CI/CD is more and more important the possibility to have the script creation in a git or similar instead of just creating the service is important to customers with several environments to keep trace of the changes.
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Web Serving 2 Functionality already exists

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