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Add variable support on CONNECT statement within SPL

Add variable support for CONNECT statement in SPL. Use Case: CREATE or replace PROCEDURE BACKUP_STATUS LANGUAGE SQL MODIFIES SQL DATA P1: BEGIN DECLARE COMMAND CHAR(200); -- Ensure this is large enough. DECLARE V_SYSTEM_NAME CHAR(25); FOR V1 AS C1...
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Not under consideration

Allow variable name as part of three part naming

Allow variable name as part of three part naming. Use Case: FOR V1 AS C1 CURSOR FOR select x.* from table( values('RACK1HST'), ('GDWEB'), ('GDIHQ1'), ('GDISYS1'), ('MAIL1'), ('RACK2HST'), ('GDWEB2'), ('GDIHQ2'), ('GDISYS2'), ('MAILTWO'), ('RACK3HS...
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Not under consideration

WRKIMGCLG should not delete images without asking for confirmation

By default, DLTIMGCLG uses KEEP(*YES) to keep images that are part of an image catalog when one is deleted. WRKIMGCLG, on the other hand, offers a 4 Delete option that deletes the images without prompting. At the very least this should work the sa...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 2 Functionality already exists

fast path should be on the new digitial certificate manager (dcm)

the old digital certificate manager had fast path so why doesn't the new digital certificate manager have fast path
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Security 2 Not under consideration

Allow selection of multiple items in screen designer

In CODE/Designer you can lasso many items on the panel you are designing and do things with them, like move, duplicate, DELETE or change a COLOR ATTRIBUTE. Use Case: Use CODE/Designer and attempt to lasso many items and then delete or change the c...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Not under consideration

Remove obsolete options from CRTNWSD and CRTNWSSTG

Many of the options on CRTNWSD and CRTNWSSTG are no longer viable. IBM hasn't supported iSCSI since 2016. Starting with the release after 7.5 they should limit it to options currently supported. I would suggest defaults of CRTNWSD TYPE(*GUEST) CRT...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Core OS 5 Not under consideration

Authority parameter change for the commands : QSYS/CRTDIR, QSYS/CRTLIB, QSYS/MD & QSYS/MKDIR

The WWTS tool verified that in the systems that had been upgraded there was a return to the default authority value for the following commands: QSYS/CRTDIR, QSYS/CRTLIB, QSYS/MD & QSYS/MKDIR and this resulted in a non-conformity for this clien...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / Security 6 Not under consideration

Bring qualified data structure name to top of Content Assist prompt list

I use Content Assist to autocomplete code all the time. For data structures, however, it hasn't been as nice. The reason is because I can't easily simply select a qualified data structure to complete, it brings up all the subfields as well for me ...
about 9 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Not under consideration

System i native support for MS-SQL Server Connection

Native Support for System i to connect to MS-SQL Server using the remote Database entry (ADDRDBDIRE).Connection should support SELECT, UPDATE, INSERT to provide a possibility for data exchange.There are exists a lot of open souce tools which works...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 6 Not under consideration

CRTSRCPF: Varchar SRCDTA, real date SRCDAT

CRTSRCPF needs an update. Please add an option for creating source data fields in varchar & use real dates for last mod date. For bonus points, last mod date should be auto-generated. Extra bonus points if whitespace changes don't modify the d...
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 1 Not under consideration

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