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IBM i

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Wordpress Installation in IBM I

Wordpress installation in IBM I to build a customized web portal. By introducing this feature now the Business customer can build web portal in-house using IBM I. Which will cut down the amount spent on hosting website and maintaining using Cloud ...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 3 Not under consideration

Port ETCD and ETCDCTL to IBM i

Implement ETCD and ETCDCTL from https://etcd.io FYI ... There is already an AIX implementation under AIX Toolbox https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/aix-toolbox-linux-applications-downloads-alpha) and I list it here as two items because it is list i...
about 4 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 1 Not under consideration

Stronger encryption in IBM Navigator for I Series

Base-64 encoding is not a sufficient method to ensure password confidentiality. The application continues to store password data in a dangerous manner and allows its reading through the HTTP GET request.The desired solution would be, for example, ...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / System Management 4 Not under consideration

Add Amazon Corretto functionality to Download Director

With previous Java vulnerabilities as well as recent increase in cost, Java is being decommissioned by some organizations for Corretto. Also, there are many institutions that have security firewalls in place blocking the ability to download ptf's ...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / JAVA 2 Submitted

Add FOR COLUMN or FOR SYSTEM NAME to Function Return Column Definitions

For User-defined SQL Function, today we can define returned column name using up to 128 characters. There currently (as far as I know) is no way to also assign a shorter, more memorable "System Column Name" to the returned parameter. For example:...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Future consideration

Add a preview tab to Report Designer like Screen Designer

With screen designer you can create indicator sets, assign them to a record format, and preview the results. In report designer you can do all except preview the results. Use Case: I am modernizing reports to utilize *PRTF instead of the program d...
about 4 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Not under consideration

DB2 Web Query - Allow "Edit in Text Editor" feature to be used by non-admin

Allow the security regarding the ability to edit reports and other web query objects in text editor to be granted to web query developers. Currently this is only available to the web query admin. In order to solve certain issues that occur from ti...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Db2 Web Query 2 Not under consideration

manage ttf fonts

Need some kind of operation to install and manage (e.g., check if a font fits ibm i, create IBM_DataObjectFont.rat, get the name for DDS FONTNAME keyword) ttf and opentype fonts. "Unsupported method" from technote http://www-01.ibm.com/support/doc...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Print 3 Future consideration

Add the "Share Open Data Path" attribute to the QDBRTVFD API

The SHARE ODP attribute is missing from the QDBRTVFD API. While SHARE is technically a file's MEMBER attribute, it is an attribute that is pervasively associated with a file object. Currently there is no user-accessible way of retrieving that attr...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Functionality already exists

Update cascade on constraints

Update cascade is allowed in other databases but, is restricted in DB2 for i, as more developers are modernizing their tables and are using constraints, referential integrity etc. This is going to be needed more and more.
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Future consideration

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