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chg sql to calculate in the right way

Sql calculate with the smalest decimalcalculate (in a Programm or in STRSQL)select Sum(1,25), sum(1,25/100)*19 from unique-file where unique-key in(a, b) --> 2 recordShow: 2,50 0,38 and that is wrong.of course if i think of it, ich can calculat...
3 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Not under consideration

Sort (auto-arrange) all content in /INCLUDE members in RPG IV

All content of included (/INCLUDE) members should be arranged in the source member so that the target (including) source member can be compiled. That is I want to include prototypes, declares, and even subprocedure implementation (body) in a /INCL...
3 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 2 Not under consideration

Keep debug session active when RDi connection is interrupted

When debugging via VPN connection, it happens that the debug session gets interrupted or disturbed by connection issues. In those cases, the program resumes and runs without stopping at breakpoints or stepping. It would be good, if the debugged pr...
3 months ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Not under consideration

Allow for Synchronous Policy Based Replication (PBR) on IBM Storwize

With the recent version of IBM Storwize, metro mirror - synchronous replication - is no longer available for IBM i. This version allows for policy based replication (PBR) or policy based High-Availability (PBHA), both asynchronous. In order to get...
4 months ago in IBM i / Storage 4 Not under consideration

Add a search zone in the ACS Session Manager

In the IBM ACS session manager, would it be possible to add a search box where you could enter the first few letters of the session name and only sessions starting with these letters would be displayed in the session list? Thank you
4 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

Provide a filter for ACS: export configuration.

You may want to exclude development and test partitions when distributing the ACS configuration to 'the floor'.
4 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

Add an option to prevent QDLS from being used

IBM is recommending to stop using QDLS since 2010. Symmetric Multi Processing and using QDLS are also not a good combination. Sun setting QDLS is maybe a bridge to far, but giving the option to prevent QDLS from being mounted during the IPL, is ma...
4 months ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 3 Not under consideration

ACS allow paste into multiple windows and allow "multi execution across selected open emulation sessions.

we manage many LPARs, it would be very useful to execute a command against either all or selected LPARs.this would be similar to what other emulation programs call, Multi-execution "Write once, execute everywhere: this tool allows you to execute t...
4 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

On the SBMJOB command add option to include database overrides

It would be nice to have something like the CPYENVVAR(*YES) but for OVRDBF/OVRPRTF to include any overrides that are in the current job stream carry over to the submitted job. Currently these isn't a API or SQL Service to even read the files that ...
5 months ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 2 Not under consideration

ACS > run sql scripts allow reconnect to change profile

In ACS > run sql scripts > reconnect > default to current user but, allow the user profile to be changed for the connection. This will help with testing out different sql scripts with different profiles.
5 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

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