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Allow F3 (show declaration) to show the declarations in other sources

When I cursor to a subroutine or procedure name in an RPGLE member and press F3, the declaration of said item is shown only if it resides in the source member in which F3 was pressed. Requesting that it be able to show declrations residing in incl...
over 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Not under consideration

Ending HTTP server on System i

When the HTTP server 5770-DG1 is terminated, it is terminated after 120 seconds with the option *immed by the IBM program. This causes an error message with level 40 to be written to the system log. The time interval must be extended. Use Case: Er...
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 1 Future consideration

Add 'command' action to Lpex Editor Actions

Add a new Lpex Editor Action: 'command' Use Case: Lpex Editor Actions allow us to attach an Lpex function to a keyboard shortcut or mouse click. There are some simple commands, like trim, which can't easily be attached to a keyboard shortcut. If t...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Not under consideration

Remove the need for ACS IFS to prompt for security on every file

The ACS IFS interface continually prompts for every file upload or download, yet I can traverse the directory structure without having to provide security every time. Please change the ACS IFS interface to prompt for security once if more than one...
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

ACS Printing Issue about Chinese UDC, Missing Paper Size and Printing Width

Issue: ACS is missing printing paper size - US Standard Fanfold in Win10. Based on the testing done with IBM supporting team, we believed it is not the issue about Windows or the Printer driver, since other applications such as Office Word can fin...
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

Option to have full usage history log of an object

Currently there are only 2 attributes of usage info for an object: Last used date Days used count 1. Last used date gives only the date used, not the time used.2. "Days used count" does not give us which days it was used.3. We do not know which us...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 2 Not under consideration

BUG 2040 is approaching and it's DUE!

Starting from YEAR 2040 6 digit dates will crash the program or give invalid results! If IBM wants the users to stop using 6digit dates, then it should be a compiler option, to make sure that such code that will crash or give invalid results after...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 8 Not under consideration

Enhance ACS ENPTUI GUI Window Board to be graphical

Enhance the so-called GUI Border for 5250 windows (both DDS and DSM) so that they are rendered using actual drawn borders, instead of textual characters that were embedded to support fixed-dimension displays; displays that no longer exist. Use Cas...
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

Allow PTF Download Throttling

PTF downloading is built to open many parallel sockets to increase throughput.This works too well at times. The process is capable of consuming virtually all of the internet bandwidth at our shop.Being able to limit downloads by number of simultan...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 5 Not under consideration

ACS CHGJOB INQMSGRPY(*RQD)

Hello,We have noticed that any query run from the Run sql statement program does an auto reply to messages. For example, when inserting into a file that has reached its maximum capacity, the program inserts as many lines as possible and then retur...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration