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IBM i

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Make PTF listing available in XML output

I was looking at all the great "IBM i Services" and I thought of a new one:List the PTF's available at IBM which are not on my system.However I thought of doing it on my own. First I looked athttp://www-912.ibm.com/a_dir/as4ptf.nsf/WWWPTFBYDATE?Re...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 4 Not under consideration

Change QUSRUSAT to work with LOCKED User Space Objects

When using the QUSRUSAT (Retrieve user space attributes) API, the API hangs/waits when the *USRSPC is *EXCL or *EXCLRD locked by another process. However since this is a read-only API, it should NOT wait. Other APIs, like DSPOBJD, QUSROBJD, etc. d...
9 months ago in IBM i / Core OS 4 Not under consideration

IBM i developer workstation emulation (like zPDT)

allow offline IBMi development, using workstation-based system emulator which can facilitate github/CI/CD development integration similar approach has been available for System Z via Rational developer tools and zPDThttps://www-356.ibm.com/partner...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 3 Not under consideration

ACS Local Screen Print Behavior Like PC5250

Make the local screen print button function in ACS like it did in the 5770-XE1, Access for Window Client. Use Case: When users print the screen the font is too small to read.Details in PMR
over 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 7 Not under consideration

RPG File Description Keywords SFLPAG and SFLSIZ

I'm missing 2 File Description Keywords, SFLPAG and SFLSIZ.They should return the values from the subfile control record in a WORKSTN file. Today we are hardcoding the values in the programs and have to remenber to change them if we change the sub...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 2 Not under consideration

ACS Hotspots

We would like to take full advantage of ACS Hotspots but there is a conflict with programs where the mouse button has been enabled to recognise a double-click. The ENTER at cursor position also treated as double-click takes precedence and returns ...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Application Development 1 Submitted

declare multiple variables on the same line in RPG free

Please add the possibility to declare multiple variable of the the same type on the same line, taking advantage of "free" RPG form possibilities, similar to C or other languages. i.e. DCL-S i1, i2, i3, i4 INT(10); DCL-DS struct1, struct2, struct3 ...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 1 Not under consideration

IFS Encryption

IFS Encryption required to resolve SFTP of PCI/PII data:• FTP, an insecure protocol needs to be eliminated• We are looking at converting the retrieval of the file from the Unix system from the insecure FTP protocol to the secured SFTP protocol• We...
about 7 years ago in IBM i / Security 2 Not under consideration

ACS to show system description in System Select pulldown

Would like the System Selection pulldown in iAccess Client to show both the system name (which is usually the IP address) AND the description field. Use Case: Ease of administrating multiple systems.
about 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

New Compiler Predefined Values for INCLUDE

It would be nice to have the library, file and member name of the source being compiled as predefined values for the INCLUDE or COPY compiler directives, like: *SRCLIB, *SRCFILE and *SRCMBR The format and rules for the directive would stay the sam...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 9 Not under consideration