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Service Manager for Pase

Right now every tool in pase has its own way to start it. This is hard to remember. For example to start Nginx you would run nginx -c /www/nginx/nginx.conf to end Nginx you would run nginx -c /www/nginx/nginx.conf -s stop It would be much easier i...
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 3 Delivered

Choose appropriate colors for find-replace dialog in Dark theme

When using the Dark theme, the options in the find-replace dialog which overlays LPEX are unreadable because the text is still colored for light themes. (See attachments.) Most other aspects of the RDi environment work well in the Dark theme, so t...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 8 Delivered

Additional Information from QSYS2.PTF_INFO

For those PTFs that have special instructions it would be useful to include this information via a NULL capable column of type CLOB, for example call PTF_SPECIAL_INSTRUCTIONS, so that it can be queried via the QSYS2.PTF_INFO view. Currently there ...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Delivered

IBM i service for ANZDFTPWD

The output of the ANZDFTPWD to a spoolfile only, might work 20 years ago, but in today's world that output format is no longer able to deal with today's demands. Use Case: We want to combine the information of the ANZDFTPWD command with other DB2 ...
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 4 Delivered

ACS 5250 Screen History enhancement: Include timestamp above/below image

Currently on version 1.1.8.8 Please enhance to include Windows timestamp data with each screen shot. When using "Save screens as images" function, allow user to select either or both of the following options:1) prefix the image file name with time...
almost 3 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Delivered

Support Array names and %SUBARR on %MIN and %MAX in RPG IV

The IBM i v7r2 RPG IV enhancements of %MIN and %MAX do not support the use of an RPG ARRAY name as their only parameter. This would provide the ability to extract the min/max of an array of elements. Supporting an array name as well as %SUBARR wou...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 12 Delivered

Need True Overloading for RPG Sub-Procedures

For RPG, add true overloading for sub-procedure parameters. The options(*nopass :*omit) is fine but not enough and does not provide true overloading. We want the ability to create several procedures of the same exact name, but different signatures...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 8 Delivered

Add IFS source option to CRTxxPGM

Please allow usage of IFS source files for CRTxxxPGM (such as CRTCLPGM) Use Case: Since orion is available on IBM i we can create a lot of source files in IFS. Not all CRTxxxPGM commands are enabled to make use of IFS source files.
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 5 Delivered

Allow an IWS SQL service default schema to be changed by the setWebServiceProperties.sh command

Currently if you create an SQL service on one server and want to promote it to another server you can't change the default schema without having to get the configuration property file and go into the IFS file to change the default schema. That is ...
about 3 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 4 Delivered

Always show subroutine/sub-procedure name where cursor is located

Recent changes to Rational Developer allow the user to display the name of the subroutine/sub-procedure that the cursor is located in. This only works if the cursor is not on a control statement (a line that contains IF, ELSE, DO, SELECT, etc.). T...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 6 Delivered

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