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IBM i

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Explaination needed as to why traditiona IBM i support for N-2 seems to be vanishing

For decades IBM has support the current release of the operation system (IBM i) and the prior 2 releases of same. Today, it sees only V7R5 and V7R4 are being enhanced and V7R3 is being abandoned before an enevatable V7Rn+1 is announced or shipped....
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 2 Not under consideration

Change Command Default for Create Network Server Desc (CRTNWSD) to *GUEST

As IBM i hosting IBM i has become ever more popular, when creating a Network Server Description (CRTNWSD) it is much more likely you would want to specify IBM i parameters rather than the default Windows based ones. I think that changing these com...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 2 Not under consideration

Add ability to Remove Profile Tokens (QSYRMVPT) API to remove all invalidated or expired profile tokens

Currently there is no way to clean-up expired and invalidated profile tokens. The Remove Profile Tokens (QSYRMVPT) API allows you to remove all profile tokens, all profile tokens for a specific user or a specific profile token. Given the current l...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Security 2 Functionality already exists

VARCHAR_FORMAT support TZH and TZM format elements

Db2 for z/OS aleady has this https://www.ibm.com/docs/ko/db2-for-zos/13?topic=functions-varchar-format Other databases such as Oracle and Postgresql already support this
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Future consideration

Add printing paper size - US Standard Fanfold in Win10 ACS 5250 print session

Out clients need to print paper size - US Standard Fanfold in operation. But this size option is missing in Windows 10 ACS 5250 print session. We have done lots of testing based on IBM supporting team, found out our driver has no issue with all ot...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Not under consideration

Additional columns for MTI_INFO table function

It would useful also to retrieve: - the number of rows of the table. - the number of entries of the temporary index (if sparse). - the number of utilization of this temporary index. We already have the number of references. - the order (ASC or DES...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Not under consideration

Allow TEMPLATE keyword for standalone fields

The template keyword allows data structures to be defined as a custom complex type simply for the purpose of defining other data structures with the same structure. Extending this to standalone variables will allow custom simple types to be define...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 2 Functionality already exists

Should be able to redact/mask fields in the return data similar to headers and queryString

It's quite likely that sensitive information could be returned from a service. It should be configurable just like for inputs. Bonus points if we could configure masking rules so you can see what the return data looked like, just not the entire va...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 1 Future consideration

RDI: Outline - update definition

When adding or removing fields in externally described files it can take a long time before it can be seen in the outline even though I'm updating it. It takes RDI a long time to register that a change in the file has happened. Thus I would like t...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Not under consideration

Double-click on column name in result, inserts that name at cursor position in editor

In ACS -> Run SQL script: Today we have context assistance by pressing F4 to build up SQL statements - and it works nice. However it is not always practical for complicated statements ( stored procedures, UDTF etc.) So an alternative and more m...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Functionality already exists