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IBM i

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    BRMS Enterprise Services

    BRMS Enterprise Services - Seems to be issues with the way the node policy works and developers notice issues but developers are stating the product is working as design. Node policy is running for all partitions in the environment although they a...
    about 6 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 2 Not under consideration

    Code Coverage Filter

    I would like the ability to use filters with code coverage. This ability does not exist currently. Use Case: When unit testing a service program it may call procedures from several other service programs or even external programs. I am not necessa...
    over 9 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Not under consideration

    Command or tool to find objects inside the IFS

    It would be very helpful and useful to have a command or tool to search for objects in the IFS directory structure, by name, by date, by extension, and other criteria.Something like WRKOBJ OBJ(*ALL/P*) for example.
    about 3 years ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 3 Not under consideration

    Host Service Should Ignore Expired Certificates

    Today I experienced that as long as an expired certificate exists, the associated services on power i (e.g. login, database, ddm) do not work and deny access despite the fact there is another certificate that is active on the same services. By del...
    about 3 years ago in IBM i / Security 2 Future 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...
    about 3 years ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 1 Functionality already exists

    Financial Report Painter

    Please include the IBI Financial Report Painter in Web Query. It has so much more flexibility than InfoAssist and the ability to build proper financials would be greatly appreciated. Use Case: Subtotals for profit or loss require expense amounts t...
    over 9 years ago in IBM i / Db2 Web Query 3 Not under consideration

    Enable compilation of full free-form RPG to 6.1 from 7.1/7.2

    ILE RPG compilers on 7.1 and 7.2 should support compiling full free-form RPG when a target release of 6.1/V6R1M0 is specified. Use Case: Many companies are running IBM i systems that predate 7.1. 6.1 still has a relatively large install base. Allo...
    over 9 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 2 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...
    about 3 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 3 Not under consideration

    Retrieve data area description

    Develop a CL command or API to retrieve the description of a data area (i.e., retrieve the type and length of the data area). Use Case: When ready to promote development work to production which includes any new data areas. Retrieve the data area ...
    over 9 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 5 Not under consideration

    Change/set sort sequence for SQL tables

    Could a way be developed to easily alter the sort sequence of a SQL table? For DDS tables there is an option in the CRTPF and CHGPF to set the sort sequence, so hopefully this won't be too hard to do. Use Case: We ran into an issue when SQL tables...
    over 9 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Not under consideration

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