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Solution to input Chinese character in Win 10 to Power System I

Due to the limitation of IBM emulator as Client Access (PC, i Access for Web, ACS) running in Win 10 (which provide only Unicode Chinese Input Method), we cannot input those chinese character that contains more than 2 bytes through those Client Ac...
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

Option to disable automatic selection of Restrict search to selection

A previous RFE requested that RDi find text work like standard Eclipse find text. Part of that was the automatic selection of the "Restrict search to selection" checkbox if you have lines selected in the editor. I would like to disable that option...
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Not under consideration

BRMS Track changed objects since last save VS scan

We have a customer with 18 million objects in the IFS- the customer does incremental saves for the IFS and they still run 30+ hours on LTO6. On a daily basis- very little data changes, but the system scans the entire IFS to find the objects that a...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 6 Not under consideration

support for Field Procedure for Date fields with default value Current date

Currently field procedure cannot be applied to DATE type fields with default value ‘Current date' I would like to know if there is any way to remove this limitation. Use Case: Field Procedure
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Not under consideration

ScreenDesigner support all keywords that have visual impact such as CHGINPDFT in design view

Some keywords have visual effect that is not reflect in the design or preview tabs. One example is CHGINPDFT.This confuses developers because they think they have not set the appropriate keywords and they loose time.Development is not accepting it...
over 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Not under consideration

From a DTAARA, a "Display" option

In RSE, a "display" option on a *DTAARA object, to see the content and the definition of a data area, as we can do with PDM option 5 Use Case: Without that, we have to use PDM or the DSPDTAARA command on a 5250 screen
over 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Not under consideration

WebQuery customize login page

We want to customize the WebQuery login page.e.g. to place pics on it or place some text information on it. Use Case: We want to customize the WebQuery login page.e.g. to place pics on it or place some text information on it.
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / Db2 Web Query 7 Not under consideration

CL Command to control Database Statistics

The Update Statistics Collections (QDBSTUS, QdbstUpdateStatistics) API has a way to set the "block system statistics collections option" -- I would like a simple way to do this through CL (either a new command or an enhancement to CHGPF). If a new...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Not under consideration

Add an ENDOPT parameter to the RUNBCKUP command

Running backups in WRKJOBSCDE would be enhanced when using virtual tape drive if there was an ENDOPT parameter to the RUNBCKUP command so that one could just run RUNBCKUP BCKUPOPT(*DAILY) ENDOPT(*UNLOAD). This would prevent the need for an exit pr...
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 2 Future consideration

Allow to execute Commands directly from RPG without the QCMDEXC interface

Similar to EXEC SQL, to do EXEC CMD or EXEC CL. Variables will be in the format &var1 like in CLP or :var1 like in SQL. Use Case: EXEC CMD CPYF FROMFILE(FromFile) TOFILE(QTEMP/Myfile) INCREL((*IF COLUMN1 *EQ &var1)) RTVSYSVAL SYSVAL(QSRLNB...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 4 Not under consideration

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