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IBM i

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    OS400 Unsecure Ports

    Different OS400 OS functionality depends on using non-secure ports (i.e. 446 and 8470 to 8476). If the different services (HTTP *ADMIN or CONSOLE) are configured to use secure ports (SSL) they still have dependencies on the backend for those unsec...
    over 4 years ago in IBM i / Networking 7 Delivered

    Link SQL procedure or SQL function as item in DSPPGMREF

    DSPPGMREF does not identify any SQL procedure or function coded in programs. A program can be a *PGM or *SRVPGM object created from a source that is based on SQLxxx language and the usage is static in the source. Use Case: When attempting to use c...
    over 4 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 8 Delivered

    Tracking the number of message KEYS used by an active program

    This is about MESSAGE KEYS. There are a limited number of message KEYS that a job can use. When that limit is reached, the job stops functioning and must be restarted. This job is very important to our business and processes MQ transactions and we...
    11 months ago in IBM i / Core OS 1 Delivered

    Requested porting of SYSTOOLS.JSON_UPDATE in QSYS

    Since we are using the systools.JSON_UPDATE function which is not supported we would need to be able to bring it into QSYS so that we can keep the functionality of our programs in the future Use Case: in our rpgle program we need to be able to joi...
    almost 4 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Delivered

    Enhance the BRMS Control Group Exit Program

    In the BRMS Control Group Exit Program, add new exits related to how the control group ends (success/error/abnormal). This will assist with automation and monitoring, and should be called when the system has left restricted state (i.e. after resta...
    almost 8 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 3 Delivered

    IBM i ACS - Run SQL scripts adding Display as Hotspots, like in 5250 Emulation

    When developing SQL scripts IBM allows you to add comments. In many cases I add HTTP links as comment. Currently RSS does not recognize them as URL Hotspots. Would it not be great when adding URLs as comments that you could use them without havin...
    over 3 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered

    Add GNU tools to PASE or 5733OPS

    We have developed a build system for native ILE code that we are preparing to release as open source. When coupled with a source control product like Git and bug tracking software like Trac (or Jira), it should provide a free (or nearly free) chan...
    over 8 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 1 Delivered

    Overlay exported procedures with a little icon to distinguish them from internal procedures

    Please add an overlay to exported procedures in the "Outline" view. Distinguishing between exported from imported procedures would be much easier, if there were different icons for both types. Maybe you could also add an overlay to the local proce...
    about 5 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 8 Delivered

    Retrieve TCP/IP Servers Attributes

    There is no option to retrieve or dump the current TCP servers configurations (Telnet & FTP), the only way to display the value is using the change server attributes commands interactively, which is not useful to be used in batch programs/scri...
    over 4 years ago in IBM i / System Management 5 Delivered

    RPG - options(*autostring) in prototypes

    To get a more "polymorph" approach to transfer parameter to API's - it would be nice if a prototype could be declare to automatically convert date, time, timestamp, int, packed, zoned, char's and varchar to zero terminated strings with that same c...
    about 8 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 10 Delivered

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