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IBM i

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    Implement RPG/CL Documentation Generation within RDi

    Currently RPG and CL do not offer a common way for a developer to put comments/documentation within the code and then have documentation be generated. This is something that other languages offer, such as JAVADocs. I would like RDi to be able to u...
    about 9 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Not under consideration

    Enhnance XMLROW by adding an OPTION of "OPTION EXCLUDE XMLDECLARATION" to this function

    When using the XMLROW function, it addes the XML header tag to each returned row. So you end up with <?xml version="1.0" ENCODING="IBM037"?> prefixing each and every row. IBM ACS and other interfaces strip off that header tag internally. But...
    over 2 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Not under consideration

    JSON_UPDATE - Updating a true/false value

    Whith JSON_UPDATE it is possible to modify existing JSON data. It is possbile to exchange a single value, to add a key/value pair, to exchange an existing Object, to add an existing Object, exchange an array and add a new array. ... but it is not ...
    over 2 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Not under consideration

    Digital Certificate Manager

    Can it be possible to include some type of logging when using DCM? Use Case: We would like to know when our Server or Client Certificates are being used? This would include from what source and to whom.
    about 9 years ago in IBM i / Security 5 Not under consideration

    Provide method to suppress backslash as delimiter for IFS paths

    IBM CL commands and the QJoStartJournaling and QJoEndJournaling APIs treat backslash characters as a delimiter and implicitly treat them as forward slash characters. The result of this is that there is now way for these commands and APIs to refere...
    about 9 years ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 4 Not under consideration

    filebeat for IBM i / PASE

    Enable filebeat to run on IBM i PASE. If not possible, enable an OpenSource substitute for filebeat. Filebeat is a very popular log shipper for solutions such as IBM Log Analysis and OpenSource ELK Use Case: log files generated and written to the ...
    almost 7 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 1 Not under consideration

    Keep leading zero with CPYTOSTMF

    IBMi data has to be made available to an external application. It has to be a *TAB seperated "csv" ile. I use CPYTOIMPF to accomplish this, no poblem here. CPYTOIMPF FROMFILE(QTEMP/file) TOSTMF(mycsvfilename) MBROPT(*REPLACE) STMFCCSID(*PCASCII) R...
    about 9 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 4 Not under consideration

    Submit job where the child job inherit the submitter job's QTEMP

    Such option will free the submitted (child job) from the need to create objects in its QTEMP that were already exists in the submitter job's (parent) QTEMP This can be achieved by a new SBMJOB keyword: QTEMP(*NONE, *ALL, *NOTFILES, <object type...
    over 2 years ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 3 Not under consideration

    5733-ICC - Add a LIST command

    Please , add a LIST or LS command to ICC
    over 2 years ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 0 Under review

    Free the Node.js runtime from obligatory UTF-8 encoding

    The Node.js runtime does a wrong conversion of ideographic characters like german umlaut and italian accented letters.Characters are written like this:Päbra -> PÀbra Delbrück -> Delbrück Please free the Node.js runtime from obligatory UTF-...
    over 9 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 2 Not under consideration

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