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IBM i

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Provide error handler for secondary thread of multi-threaded job

When a multi-threaded job encounters an unhandled exception, the system should be able to gracefully handle the error with the standard *INQ message to *EXT or QSYSOPR. Background When an unhandled exception occurs in the secondary thread of a mul...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 3 Not under consideration

Rational Developer for i DDS Design with REFFLD & adjustment value

When using the Rational Developer for i DDS Design tool for a display file, the Design tab does not display the field(s) correctly when using a REFFLD that also has a size adjustment. Use Case: Open an existing display file source or create a new ...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Not under consideration

Information about different drivers to connect to iseries

We'd like to get a (really complete) documentation of all possibilities to connect a windows pc to the iSeries.There exists a lot of drivers and software solutions. What we are missing is to see the difference between them.E.g. i Series Access ODB...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 6 Not under consideration

add 3270 emulation to ACS client

We currently have a need for a java emulator 5250 which works well with the exception that we also need the same java client (ACS) to have the ability to connect 3270 to our mainframe. We would like to have 3270 added to ACS 5733 XJ1 Use Case: War...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

Need to be able to move owned object of a user that is removed from Web Query to another user.

When a licensed user is removed from Web Query, his owned objects are removed after a notification, but without any control.If reports or schedules, that would be necessary for business, are removed, , there could be unexpected failures like sched...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / Db2 Web Query 3 Not under consideration

QSYSMSG - Array rebuild start and complete messages

We have a program that monitors the QSYSMSG message queue to alert us to critical issues on our system. When a DASD device fails with mirrored protection, the system sends CPI0949 when protection is suspended and CPI0989 when the resume is complet...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / Storage 3 Not under consideration

BRMS Enterprise - Desired Enhancement around email subject line

Would like the ability to modify the subject line of the BRMS Enterprise email function. Currently it emails a standard line that is less informative than it could be. For reference - it currently sends "Report QREPORTDFN generated for node <sy...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 4 Not under consideration

Standardize INFDS and Program Status Data Structure with reserved words and constants

Currently all information in Program Status Data Structure and File Information Data structure is accessd by position in the data structure. The naming is done in the program. Individual programmers use various naming conventions or no convention....
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 3 Not under consideration

Security settings on Save Restore

Add ability to override source security settings when restoring an object. Use Case: When saving an object on one system and restoring to another system will keep the settings from the object which already exists on the system being restored to. W...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / Security 5 Not under consideration

Display Message File Constants in Screen Designer

Our team uses Rational Developer for a lot of RPG programming associated with display files and related text from multiple spoken languages (Spanish, English, French, etc). We would like Rational Developer's Screen Designer 'Preview' and 'Design' ...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Not under consideration

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