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IBM i

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Add possibility to retrieve current number of filled elements in array with dim(*auto/*var)

Please add the number of filled elements in a varying dimension array. Currently we can set the allocated number with %elem(array: *alloc) = number. This says something about the memory being allocated as far as I understand. If you then use for i...
12 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 1 Functionality already exists

add support for windows server core to IBM i Access Client Solutions windows package (driver)

current situtation (working): windows server 2016 core with SQL Server and IBM i Access Client Solutions Windows drivernew situation (not working): windows server 2022 core with SQL Server but IBM i Access Client Solutions Windows driver can not b...
12 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Future consideration

Add Help Text at bottom while changing the password without Reason Code

When user changes profile password and if the password does not meet password rules, error message display with reason code at the bottom of the screen. It is difficult for end user to understand or find the description. Hence if the description d...
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / Security 1 Not under consideration

Change the Format of downloads on ESS website to ISO

The industry standard for DVDs is ISO and it would be easier to have the downloads in this format. Use Case: Standard windows software doesn't have the UDF format as a source and makes creating DVDs more difficult.
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / Install and Upgrade and Licensing 5 Not under consideration

Disabled the looging of negative sql codes in the JOBLOG of a JOB

In RGP developments embedding SQL when we encounter a Negative SQL code, even if it is managed in the program, it returns lines in the processing JOBLOG.So a log of several thousand lines is generated if the program returns a lot of negative SQL c...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 5 Not under consideration

All sessions are stopped at once

Some session can start at once by batch files on ACS.But all session are not ended at once. Use Case: iAW can handle batch session to start and stop at once. But ACS can only start batch session.ACS can't stop batch session. We want to stop all se...
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Not under consideration

ENDJOB OPTION(*IMMED) considered harmful

ENDJOB OPTION(*IMMED) has outlived it's usefulness. Modern code contains more subtle locking then in days past & often has exit handlers to perform cleanup. This is true of both client & IBM code (I'm looking at you, SQE). End *IMMED ends ...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 5 Not under consideration

Allow reports to be sorted differently than the columns are displayed (ie. display = C1,C2,C3 sort order C3,C1,C2)

In DB2 Web Query the records are by default sorted by the order that the columns are displayed in the report without being able to change the sorting other that changing the order of the columns. There is the capability to "hide" columns to change...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / Db2 Web Query 5 Not under consideration

DKIM implementation on IBM i SMTP server

DKIM SERVER SMTP Use Case: CHGSMTPA
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 3 Not under consideration

add support for additional DB drivers

we would like to have support for additional db drives in "run SQL scripts" module of IBM i Client Access solutionsthe support could be added by either referring to system installed DB drivers (like the old method used in IBM i Access for Windows ...
about 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

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