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For a procedure returning a varchar, writing "return *blank;" should be the same as writing "return '';"

Writing: dcl-s result varchar(500); dcl-proc GetErrorMessage;dcl-pi *n varchar(500);end-pi; return *blank;end-proc; result = GetErrorMessage(); //=> result = '[500 times space character]' is not the same as writing: dcl-s result varchar(500); d...

3 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 2 Not under consideration

19 VOTE

lvmstat that can gather MWC stats

We need a custom lvmstat that can gather MWC stats, that would would work like this: To enable mwcc stats: lvmstat -v <vgname> -me To disable mwcc stats: lvmstat -v <vgname> -md To clear mwcc stats: lvmstat -v <vgname> -mC To que...

12 months ago in AIX 0 Planned for future release

11 VOTE

New ASSERT op-code

Assertions are good programming style and widely in use in C, C++ and other languages. The idea is to have an ASSERT op-code like that: assert sqlcode in %list(0:100) 'Unexpected SQLCODE = '+%char(sqlcode); assert sqlcode = *zero %msg(...) %target...

7 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 3 Future consideration

10 VOTE

HMC delivering rperf calculation

Would simplify and speed up the process to gather this info, which will be helpful in the sizing of new customer environments and comparison of customer environments.

6 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Planned for future release

1 VOTE

Add information indicating that the session is open with ACS

Many companies are slowly converting video sessions from Client Access to ACS. In order to monitor the progress of these upgrades it would be useful to have an SQL service that lists the video devices, which also reports a field indicating that th...

20 days ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

4 VOTE

Request for adding Allocated Processor System Thresholds to IBM CMC

The CMC currently provides the ability to set thresholds for alerting for Utilisation. Customers running multiple IBM Power systems however stand to benefit from a similar concept - Allocation thresholds, since having sufficient spare allocatable ...

3 months ago in Cloud Management Console 0 Submitted

5 VOTE

Include an "assigned" flag to DCM API to indicate if cert is assigned to an DCM application or not

There is an API that already exists that allows certificates stored in a DCM store be read and would include expiry date, which is useful. I am not sure what the API is called, but I know that TAATOOL provides a command (CVTCERT) that uses the IBM...

3 months ago in IBM i / Security 5 Under review

29 VOTE

Add "Deprecated" as a special keyword to procedures

Deprecation is something that is not something that RPG developers would be familiar with, however open source developers are. When you no longer need a method or when you dont want someone to use a method that is out there, you deprecate the meth...

over 1 year ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 8 Future consideration

10 VOTE

SYSTOOLS.READ_SPREADSHEET to be able to read xlsx files from SQL

It would be usefull to be able to read xlsx files from within RPG programs for importing data as a table function.

6 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Future consideration

38 VOTE

Instantaneous consumption of IBM Power servers

With the great challenges of energy reduction that we will have to face and in the perspective of "greenIT", it would be interesting to me to be able to know the instantaneous consumption of the Power (and others) infrastructure . As requested by ...

almost 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Future consideration

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