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IBM i

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WRKSMTPUSR - Same alias may be used for more than one user when unique for each domain.

In CHGSMTPA we have 3 different domain. We have these users: FAKTURA1 e-mail: post@bladetmotgift.no FAKTURA5 e-mail: post@bladetfokus.no FAKTURA6 e-mail: post@bladetbevis.no In WRKDIRE there is no problem, but in WRKSMTPUSR it's not possible. TCP5...
9 months ago in IBM i / Networking 5 Under review

Show profile will be disabled msg even for non-valid profiles.

OS 7.5 changed to provide the same error message when signing on for the case where a userid is not defined or a userid is valid but the password is wrong. This was intended to not 'leak' information to a bad actor that they guessed a valid userid...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Security 3 Future consideration

Allow journal entry read (RCVJRNE) and native DB I/O with field proc encoded data.

Consider a field proc used for field level encryption. When replicating database activity, the data must be decrypted as it is being read from the journal. It then must be re-encrypted when it is written to the database. It would improve performan...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Future consideration

LPEX print preferences

Currently changing print preferences requires a familiarity with the various set and/or query commands. It's a very tedious process. I'm requesting that these settings be made part of the preferences. Settings that would be good to have available ...
about 8 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Not under consideration

Enhance CL/ILE CALLPRC command to support External Programs

Via prototype and the EXTPGM keyword, RPG/ILE is able to invoke external programs using the CALLP op code. This has several advantages over the RPG CALL op code and I would like to be able to use at least one of those advantages in CL/ILE programm...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Languages - CL (Control Language) 5 Not under consideration

ACS /PLUGIN=cldownload

I user ACS "acslaunch_win-64.exe /PLUGIN=cldownload /clientfile=XXXX.CSV" CSV format is fixed to UTF8 I want to select something other UTF-8 as in the file details of data transfer . Shift_JIS , windows-31j ..etc Use Case: file transfer FROM IBMi ...
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

Cross-hair highlight cursor

The RDi editor needs a cross-hair highlight cursor similar to what existed in the Code/400 product. The "hairline cursor" does not persist between sessions and does not do a sufficient job of highlighting the cursor position when a lot of text is ...
about 3 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Future consideration

Hope IBM i can have DB2 Order By COLLATION KEY BIT scalar function

Customer need to Order By some DBCS Chinese field by Chinese stroke order. In open platform UDB DB2, can use COLLATION_KEY_BIT scalar function -- https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEPGG_9.7.0/com.ibm.db2.luw.sql.ref.doc/doc/r0050491.htm...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 4 Future consideration

AS/400 Advanced Job Scheduler functionality-57xxJS1

I have two requests for enhancing the Advanced Job Scheduler on As/400. They are closely related together.Initial issue has been found during PMR 46407,668,6681. Update remote system definition in AJD (file: QUSRIJS/QAIJSRMT) allow use FQDN. Curre...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 6 Not under consideration

No good way to specify a variable with list parameters.

Transferred from AD0276 - Since the early days of the CPF operating system on the System/38, We've been bedeviled by specifying variables for list parameters in CL programs. For every other parameter on the system, if you need to specify a variabl...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 5 Not under consideration