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IBM i

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    Change defaults in REORGANIZE window in ACS Schemas

    Please consider changing the defaults in ACS for the Reorganize Table window available in Schemas. The current defaults will start a RGZPFM with ALWCANCEL(*NO) when Enter is pressed: RGZPFM FILE(MYLIB/MYTABLE) MBR(*FIRST) KEYFILE(*N...
    about 2 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Future consideration

    JOURNAL ENTRY : Ability to open multiple DATA_DETAILS windows, compare the UB and UP journal data, and highlighting the modified data in color

    When displaying the logs, I would like to be able to open multiple UB and UP windows in sequence and have the tool highlight the data that has been modified. In the course of my work, I am often required to consult production logs in order to dete...
    about 2 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Future consideration

    Add ability to provide additional HTTP status codes when processing a REST web service.

    Using REST in IWS, there is no ability to provide alternate return/result codes when processing a web service request. There are only 2 options, status codes 200 or 400. There is need to have user definable result codes to respond with alternate c...
    4 months ago in IBM i / Web Serving 2 Future consideration

    Size decrease when downloading PTFs Groups

    Hello, My idea is simple. When downloading PTF group images, we would have option to upload some kind of PTF output file (which will tell fix central which PTFs are already on IBM i partition) which will be than processed on fix central and make d...
    4 months ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 0 Submitted

    Add OPEN *ALL to RPG to open all files not already open.

    Files defined as USROPN or already closed must be opened manually and individually and code must make sure each file is not already open. OPEN *ALL would be the complement to CLOSE *ALL.
    7 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 2 Future consideration

    Allow means to display multi-line clickable hot spot links in ACS 5250 emulation.

    Despite the intent for many to move to web based UIs, many products still have 5250 interfaces and many customers continue to want to use them. It is useful for 5250 outputs to display a hyperlink to get to web help, do searches, etc. (e.g. starti...
    29 days ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

    Add support for the BOOLEAN SQL data type to IBM i Access ACS Windows Application Package

    According to the ServiceLevel\readmesp.txt in the Windows Application Package it has last been updated in May 2024. So i guess the support for the BOOLEAN SQL data type isn´t implemented in the included ODBC Driver. This results in Errors when a B...
    30 days ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Functionality already exists

    SMB 3.1.1 support needed in IBM i 7.4

    We have tested the communication between SMBv3 on IBMi and SMBv3.1.1 on Windows and it doesn't work.
    5 months ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 5 Future consideration

    Show tables and columns used in embedded SQL statements in structure view

    The structure view displays in an extremely complete way all the uses of files, formats and zones by the native instructions (dcl-f, read, update ...). On the other hand, all the files and zones used by static SQL statements do not appear, which ...
    over 2 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Future consideration

    Add a "Last Active" Timestamp or number of elapsed seconds since the last activity for a Job to WRKACTJOB and QUSRJOBI API

    While we know that interactive jobs have an inactivity timer on them, the Work Active Jobs (WRKACTJOB) and the corresponding API do not provide us with information on how long a user hasn't had an interaction with the 5250 session or a batch job h...
    3 months ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 1 Not under consideration

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