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IBM i

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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 ...
about 7 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 5 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

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...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Not under consideration

DKIM implementation on IBM i SMTP server

DKIM SERVER SMTP Use Case: CHGSMTPA
about 6 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 3 Not under 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...
about 2 years ago in IBM i / Security 1 Not under consideration

Allow changing Record Format Name in ACS Schema Table Definition Window

Allow changing Record Format Name in ACS Schema Table Definition Window after the table has already been created. The field is only available during the new table creation. Use Case: You chose the auto-generated name, but would later like to fix t...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

Add db2 direct connect (db2 CLI) to be part of ACS app package for windows

application access for MS PowerBI would benefit from db2 cli direct connect. Faster performance and less data transfer off of ibm i system.
about 1 year ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

BRMS Media information size

BRMS Media information size - I would like BRMS to present the space used for tracking current backup history information for a specific control group based on different media retention's (daily, weekly, monthly, etc). Use Case: Knowing the size o...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 2 Not under consideration

increase user space size

The maximum size of an user space object is 16, 776, 704 bytes. This is no longer sufficient. If a library contains more than about 25.000 objects I can not dump all object information (QUSROBJD using OBJD0300) into the user space. Please increase...
about 7 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 5 Not under consideration

Column Heading for CPYTOIMPF

I had a client requesting an enhancement for column heading in cpyto/frmimpf. He wants to be able to import text or alias via the ADDCOLNAM parameter. He was expecting *SQL to give him the results but he was using a DDS file with text. He pointed ...
about 8 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Not under consideration

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