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IBM i

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    ACS Monochrome

    I wish to see Access Client Solutions (ACS) to have an option to display 5250 as monochrome instead of colors. Make reversed colors into black background and white font. Simlar to monochrome twinax monitor of old days. High Contrast would be appre...
    over 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Not under consideration

    For China IBM i customer TaiKang. Their business have seize wait for group USRP when jobs do many new objects create action

    Just like 2015 CPS 7WMTVZ told, customer find their application job hold exclude seize for group user profile when do QSYCHONR (CHGOBJOWN) or QSYRVAUT (REVOKE OBJECT AUTHORITY COMMAND PROCESSING PROGRAM) action, which is triggered by QUSRCRTUS (cr...
    over 8 years ago in IBM i / Security 2 Not under consideration

    ACS plugins need to stop grabbing the ALT key when user ALT-TABs to an ACS plugin

    Stop grabbing the ALT key activity when user presses ALT-TAB and then activating the menus. Use Case: On Windows platforms user press ALT-TAB, one to many times, to cycle through a list of open programs. The users then releases the ALT-TAB keys wh...
    over 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Is a defect

    API for Access Path Rebuild Progress

    We commonly have access path rebuilds occurring post the vary on of an IASP. We would like the capability to monitor the progress of the access path rebuilds from a batch job rather than just the screen. Use Case: We run a superannuation system on...
    over 8 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 8 Future consideration

    Make Debug Server TCP endpoints available to the public

    Terminology may be incorrect as not enough information is publicly available at the moment. Please allow connections to the Debug Server so debug sessions can be started remotely. It would be awesome if it could be well documented and language-agn...
    over 8 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 3 Not under consideration

    Report CPPEA69 on QSYSMSG

    Please report message CPPEA69 to QSYSMSG so we can monitor for it there along with our other critical hardware monitoring. Use Case: We recently had a link aggregation drop. Scouring QHSTLOG we found that one of the two lines reported it was down ...
    over 8 years ago in IBM i / Networking 2 Not under consideration

    Flag schema and it's objects to use SSD

    To improve performance I would like to flag a SQL schema/library to store all objects contained in it on the Solid State Drives. Use Case: We have a process that builds tables, with a large amount of data, in a specific schema, copies them to the ...
    over 8 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Not under consideration

    Add parameters ALWLIBUPD / ALWUPD on CRTSQLRPGI and CRTBNDRPG

    Make attributes / parameters ALWUPD and ALWLIBUPD available on 1 step compile (CRTSQLRPGI, CRTBNDRPG). On 2 step compile, they ara available on the CRTPGM command. Use Case: When creating program (using service program) and deploying it to other s...
    over 8 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 3 Not under consideration

    Show SQL referenced items in Outline View

    Tables, views, and columns referenced in embedded SQL do not appear in the Outline View. Use Case: **free ctl-opt dftactgrp(*no); dcl-s table char(10);dcl-s lib char(10);dcl-s text char(50); // table exists on every systemexec sql declare pgmr_own...
    over 8 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Not under consideration

    DB2 Web Query - Allow "Edit in Text Editor" feature to be used by non-admin

    Allow the security regarding the ability to edit reports and other web query objects in text editor to be granted to web query developers. Currently this is only available to the web query admin. In order to solve certain issues that occur from ti...
    over 8 years ago in IBM i / Db2 Web Query 2 Not under consideration

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