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IBM i

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    Allow changing style in theme selection

    A Theme is selected and applied. A style is selected that modifies the Theme. Then if the Theme is changed, the new theme is not applied. The issue is unforgiving by saving the procedure, because then it is no longer possible to remove the styling...
    almost 9 years ago in IBM i / Db2 Web Query 2 Not under consideration

    WebQuery SUM by GROUP

    Webquery should support a function like SUM by GROUP. I don't know if there exist a specific word for it, so I'll try to describe it with an example.If you have data like the following: Customer Year RevenueCust_A 2012 $ 523 2013 $ 658Cust_B 2012 ...
    almost 9 years ago in IBM i / Db2 Web Query 12 Not under consideration

    Integrate IBM I Access 5250 with Mac Touch Bar

    We are running IBM I Access Client Solutions v 1.1.6.1 build 6431 on some MacBook Pro 2016 with touch bars. We would expect to the able to add the application to the shortcut definitions for the OS to display the function keys in the touch bar. De...
    almost 9 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

    Allow PTF Groups to be ordered using deltas

    We have developed a tool that can compare the PTF Group levels installed on a system and those available from IBM. When we see a difference between the group levels we use SNDPTFORD to order the PTF's directly to an Image Catalog ready for install...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 1 Functionality already exists

    api QDBRTVSN response time too long

    I have a security feature based on library and group profile of the current users. the application is a very intensive client-access application.more than 18000 sql for the main job for a duration of 4 minutes 51 seconds. the feature retrieve Libr...
    almost 9 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 6 Not under consideration

    Relaxed string manipulation BIF's that respect SBCS, UCS and UTF-8.

    Today we have nice features where we can get portions of character strings. However, especially with support of UTF-8, the number of bytes is not always equal to the number of characters. Also - trying to extract ranges of characters not within th...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 3 Not under consideration

    Please add nslookup, host, dig as part of the base os and not part of option 31, dns

    I need to use nslookup (could maybe settle for dig or host) from IBM i. However only my lpars with option 31, dns, loaded have that command. I feel that option 31 dns is a 'host' feature while nslookup, etc are client features. I do not want to lo...
    almost 9 years ago in IBM i / Networking 3 Not under consideration

    Save and reuse favourite shell commands, sql statements, qsh statements, ...

    Simplify the persistent reuse of statements as we do within cl: with F9 and have that for other environments like qsh: qcmd: sql: bash:. These options are not yet persistent and not easy to manage. I would like to easily build my favourite menus b...
    almost 9 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 2 Not under consideration

    RDi: Fix block indentation feature

    Issue 1 When indenting a block of code by highlighting the block and then pressing the Tab key, all of the selected lines are indented as expected, however, if the cursor is on a subsequent line (i.e. at the left hand margin of the next line) that...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Is a defect

    Allow value selection on command prompting

    When prompting on a command, it might show a number of well known values, or present a list from a choice program, however the value must always be typed in again. It would be easier if the option was offered to select one of these values by posit...
    almost 6 years ago in IBM i / Languages - CL (Control Language) 2 Not under consideration

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