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avoid Event 3066 with signed IBMiAccess WindowsAP

Event 3066 is reported for IBMiAccess_v1r1_WindowsAP_English_1.1.0.27 Event 3066: This event records that a code integrity check determined that a process (usually lsass.exe) attempted to load a particular driver that did not meet the Microsoft si...
9 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

improve compilation cross reference with location in memory

Hello, I'm working again on expanding the size of a field in the database. I previously encountered difficulties with fields that overlaps in data structures. Exploration of the rpgle compilation cross references gives me a lot of information abou...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 2 Future consideration

Chinese Character ? not being supported with CCSID 937

Hello Team, We have received an update from customer that the Chinese character 菓 is not being supported in one of the web based applications. We are using Traditional Chinese and CCSID on the AS400 side is 937 which is supported for Chinese chara...
about 3 years ago in IBM i / Languages - Other 2 Not under consideration

Disable the NPS survey pop-up for specific users

Behavior seen in version V9R1M920 When loging into the HMC a popup is triggerd with a survey.The pop-up trigger is scheduled on a regular cadence according to the following schedule:1) 30 days after initial use by each user.2) 30 days after the in...
over 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Not under consideration

Speed up table partitioning

Databases are constantly increasing in size, and more and more IBM i customers are approaching or exceeding the limits for a single DB2 table: 1.7 TB storage or 4.2 billion rows. DB2 MultiSystem allows for a table to have up to 256 partitions inst...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Future consideration

prefix field length limited to 10 should be increased

bug fix This program the same field name in 2 files, in an external data structure for each file. So I put a prefix on the Dcl-F & Dcl-DS of the second file prefix(AUTHDR_) and it still would not compile. I shortened the prefix(A_) and the pro...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 2 Future consideration

I would like to see the outline include files that are used by embedded SQL

I would like to see files used by embedded SQL in an RPGLE program in the outline view. Currently only files defined on F specs show in the outline view. Use Case: I use the outline view occasionally to see what files a program uses and how. If fi...
over 11 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Not under consideration

ACS RSS - Support Multiple Connections

Within ACS Run SQL Scripts (RSS) support the ability to connect multiple times with different configurations and then run a given SQL against one of those Connections.The 'Quantum DB' plugin for Eclipse provides this functionality. This support is...
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

Remote User/Password in ARCN0100 (Connect format)

An SQL Client Integration Exit Program (ARDPGM) receives remote DB credentials from the SQL system via the Connect format ARCN0100. Both User ID and Password parameters are limited to 10 characters each and the user ID contains only upper case cha...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Future consideration

Bring LPEX editor more in line with Eclipse Java editor

I would like to see an LPEX "Editor profile" that makes the LPEX editor work like the Eclipse Java editor as long as it relates to "selecting text" or "text indention" (TAB / Shift-TAB). Selection text, changing the left indention of selected text...
over 10 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Not under consideration