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IBM i

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    Enhance QWCCVTDT API

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    almost 3 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 1 Not under consideration

    RDI-COBOL: Allow apostrophe for SQL literal delimiter

    See Support Case TS003461172--PMR's are old school :-! In the LPEX editor, SQL statements with a blank value trigger a "SQL0113 Name ' not allowed" message. e.g.: ----------------------------exec sqldeclare SampleCursor cursor forselect Field1, ' ...
    almost 6 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Future consideration

    Enhance the POS keyword to support a location of *NEXT similar to OVERLAY.

    The OVERLAY keyword is required when its "field" parameter is the data structure name. However OVERLAY does not allow *NEXT for the position of that field, a hard-coded value must be specified otherwise it defaults to 1. The POS keyword support ov...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 4 Not under consideration

    Display paired parentheses in different colors in SQL Where clauses and RPG Do and If statements

    Enahancing the RDi editor to display paired parentheses in different colors would enable the programmer to visually see the construct of complex AND and OR clauses in SQL WHERE and RPG IF and DO statements. Use Case: See attachment
    over 11 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 8 Not under consideration

    XML-INTO: Add new option to clear DS before loading

    Add an option to XML-INTO that clears the DS before parsing the XML data into the DS. This option should work similarly to EVAL and other "assignment-type" functions.Data Structures are typically used to temporarily store XML data prior to taking ...
    almost 9 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 3 Not under consideration

    support #pragma once in C/C++

    Please add support for the non-standard but widely support #pragma once. It's way more convinient than regular include guards and would make porting software easier.
    almost 3 years ago in IBM i / Languages - Other 2 Future consideration

    CRTDUPOBJ command update a status file or periodically send a message to the job log that indicates the percent complete

    There isn't an interface to the CRTDUPOBJ command that allows us to monitor the status, nothing found in Advanced analysis too, So have the CRTDUPOBJ command update a status file or periodically send a message to the job log that indicates the per...
    almost 9 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 4 Not under consideration

    DDSDesigner toolbar for common properties

    Common properties such as field type, color, dspatr should be available from a toolbar in the design tab. Something similar to the toolbar in CODE designer.It should also work when multiple fields are selected. Use Case: User wants to underline he...
    over 14 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Not under consideration

    Suround selection with if, do, for, monitor in Lepex for RPGLE

    Add a "Surround with" option in Lpex for RPGLE source similar to the one existing for Java. A common case when updating an existing program is adding a condition for a block of lines, i.e puttiong these lines inside a 'if'. With this option, the u...
    over 14 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 6 Not under consideration

    Show Display File Description (DSPFD) parameters in the file Properties tab

    Show Display File Description (DSPFD) parameters in the file Properties tab.Attributes such as "File is currently journaled" will show in File Properties. Also other Journal attributes. Use Case: When a user want to check if file is Journaled or n...
    over 14 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Not under consideration

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