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Provide additional attribute for Adding trigger to enable them either for Interactive session or batch session.

Please provide an option to select either for interactive session or batch session while adding triggers to database files. It would help in a big way to develop access log applications for GDPR. Use Case: With the GDPR implementation in Europe, i...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Not under consideration

Toolbar size too small

Our company use IBM i for our production reporting environment. We create custom toolbars with macros that allow them to perform multiple functions. However on the new java verison (1.1.6.0) there is no option to increase the toolbar size along wi...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Not under consideration

Simple option to hide command special value

PARM of CMD has the option to specify special values.Those special values appear first in the list of the values in the CHOICE prompt.We would like to have the option to hide some or all special values from appearing in the CHOICE text. Use Case: ...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 1 Not under consideration

The QMHQRDQD API should not update the Object Last Used Date.

Currently if you call QMHQRDQD in an RPG or whatever program, that API updates the *DTAQ object's Last-Used Date with the current date. What if QUSROBJD updated the last used date? It doesn't because it should not. The QMHQRDQD API should not upda...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Core OS 3 Not under consideration

Add AIX LVM functionality to IBM i for Load Source Migration with zero downtime

Add AIX LVM functionality to IBM i for Load Source Migration with zero downtime. Use Case: Minimize downtime when migrating storage with IBM i.
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Install and Upgrade and Licensing 7 Not under consideration

Stop monitoring non-observable code

Prevent non-observable functionality from being impacted by the process of code coverage. When running a program under code coverage, the debug product is actually active but if said program calls another process, in which we have no control over ...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 5 Future consideration

Enable ability to customize the name of the journal on CREATE SCHEMA

I would like to be able to specify the journal name when using CREATE SCHEMA command on IBM i, currently the Schema is created and journal is QSQJRN. The reason is if I created a schema starting with letter Q ,it creates the journal QSQJRN and I a...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Not under consideration

Add physical bytes used on media to QSRSAV format for save output

We currently have no way to know how much space is used and how much is available on our LTO media until we fill the tape. The save commands support output to a file in QSRSAV format, which includes the original size of the objects that were saved...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 3 Future consideration

Return Type for DB2 Coalesce Function Should Be "CHAR" NOT "DECFLOAT(34)" when params are (INT,CHAR) OR (CHAR,INT)

Apparently by design when the DB2 coalesce function evalute parameters consisting of mixed data-types, particularly CHAR(S) and INTEGERS it chooses a return data-type of DECFLOAT(34). When only these data-types are involved it should choose a vari...
about 5 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Not under consideration

Divide the RPG manual into a fixed format and a free format version

For many years the RPG manual have described both the fixed format and the free format. As the years has passed the free format version of RPG has been more and more enhanced where the fixed format is more "steady". Now I feel that the manual is g...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 4 Not under consideration

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