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Allow stored procedures created as *PGM objects to be called as exit point programs

When using the CREATE PROCEDURE SQL statement to create a *PGM Object it is NOT possible to call the generated object outside of SQL; doing so results in an error reporting "Pointer not set". Looking at the code generated as an intermediary step i...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 4 Not under consideration

add the ability to specify scope of static variable in RPGLE sub-procedure

Request to allow developer to specify the scope of static variable in RPGLE sub-procedure. Currently, static variable has an Activation Group scope. I would like to request adding a parameter to the static keyword that will allow developer to spec...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 3 Not under consideration

Declare variables and call procedures directly on the declare

Today if we want to call a procedure that has a return value, we have to declare the variable, data structure etc and then call the procedure like this: dcl-s eligiblefreight packed( 11 : 3 ); eligiblefreight = rlsitm_getEligibleFreight( batch ); ...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 3 Not under consideration

New Navigator for i - textured chart support like the heritage Navigator

In the Heritage Navigator - Investigate Data charts, I used textured bar graph a lot and I find this useful feature missing from the New Navigator. Please deliver it soon. Thanks.
over 1 year ago in IBM i / System Management 1 Not under consideration

0N002 - A character cannot be mapped to a valid XML character.

Since we started using SQL more and more to build and parse XML we are running into SQL state error of 0N002 - A character cannot be mapped to a valid XML character. Our only known fix for this is to do a regular expression statement on each colum...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Not under consideration

RDI: Synchronize settings, filters etc between RDI on more PCs

I would like to have the possibility to save the settings, member filters etc in my home directory on the IBM i my RDI is connected to. And when reconnecting later the settings should be synchronized with what is previously saved. What should be s...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Not under consideration

Allow Unabbreviated RPG Freeform Data Type Keywords

Please change the SQL precompiler, RPG compiler, and Rational Developer for i to also recognize and allow the unabbreviated forms of the RPG freeform data type keywords. Use Case: For example, ucs2 is fine as it is. But, allow: integer for intindi...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 1 Not under consideration

RAID Conversion Function in Storage Manager

Changing RAID Level or RAID Protection Hot Spare level requires all RAID protection to be stopped and restarted. This is a long running process and leaves the system vulnerable to a single disk failure during the process. This is exacerbated by th...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / Storage 3 Not under consideration

BRMS SAVLIB *NONSYS ENHANCEMENT

Can I request an enhancement for the SAVLIB *NONSYS and the ability to omit libs. SAVLIB LIB(*NONSYS) DEV(QTAPEXX) OMITLIB(XXXXXX YYYYYY ZZZZZZZ) OUTPUT(*PRINT) Use Case: Prefer to recover system using media from SAVLIB *NONSSYS as opposed to usin...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 3 Not under consideration

"create type" with all characteristics like column table

Improve the SQL "create type" command by adding the column header, the field text and all the possible features that are in a field of a table. In this way it would be possible to create the tables by simply referring to the "type" without definin...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Future consideration

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