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New Navigator for i - PDI customized chart

In Heritage Navigator for i - PDI tool, I created customized PDI charts for my use many times. I cannot find this feature in the New Navigator for i. Can you deliver it in the future?
4 months ago in IBM i / System Management 2 Not under consideration

Bring the "Web" perspective to RDi 9.8

Hello, The "Web" perspective is part of the "Modernization Tools, Java Edition" which can be installed to RDi 9.6 via IBM Installation Manager. But in the new RDi 9.8 there is no way to install/use this perspective, so we're forced to stay with th...
4 months ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Not under consideration

Add the Module feature to PL/SQL

To improve modularity and maintainability of PL/SQL code, could you please add to DB2 for i, the support of modules, which already exists on other DB2 platforms : https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2/9.7?topic=modules-referencing-objects-defined-in Thi...
5 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Future consideration

Add identity of Database File and Member in QSPL of the SPOOLED File to QUSRSPLA API

Please add the name of the QSPL database file and member to the Retrieve SPOOLED File Attributes API. If there are multiple members/files, then return it as an repeating list of this with the offset and count as the way to jump to the info. Perhap...
5 months ago in IBM i / Print 1 Future consideration

SQL Service qsys2.dns_lookup_ip() needs to return *all DNS name for given IP address

the new SQL service qsys2.dns_lookup_ip() should return all the DNS names. currently if only returns the first one found for your given DNS setup. the DIG command does return all associated names
5 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Future consideration

New IBM i Service for NetServer

I would like an IBM i service to see all the IBM i NetServer configuration
5 months ago in IBM i / System Management 2 Submitted

Enhance the QLIRNMO API so it updates SQL Catalogs the same as the RNMOBJ CL command

Today, the QLIRNMO API only updates the SQL Catalogs for SQL TABLE, VIEW, and INDEX objects. But for SEQUENCES, TRIGGERS, VARIABLES, etc. it does not and the association between the SQL Object long name, and the shorter System Object Name is lost,...
5 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Functionality already exists

ACS - IFS upload option to specify Unicode (UTF8)

I noticed when using ACS Integrated File System, text files always get uploaded with CCSID 437, even when Unicode BOM is present. it would be useful if the file was created with 1208 in the IFS, either by automatically or selecting the CCSID.
5 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Planned for future release

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...
5 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Future consideration

Match storage information between WRKSYSSTS and ISeries Performance Report

Hi, As part of the performance monitoring activities on our iSeries, we are capturing the report from iSeries Performance tool and we observed the used disk size is different between the report from performance tool and WRKSYSSTS by almost 5% to 8...
5 months ago in IBM i / Performance Tools 1 Submitted

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