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PDF/A with ZUGFeRD

Due to EU laws, we need the ability to create PDF/A files with ZUGFeRD.
21 days ago in IBM i / Print 0 Submitted

managment librairies list for librairies product with SQL *SYS Convention Name

When you use a select in SQL without qualification and SQL naming *SYS, you use the library list possibilities with a litle different *PRDLIB i have a command CMD PROMPT('test mycmd') PRDLIB(MYLIB) a program associate to thic command ...
21 days ago in IBM i / AI with IBM i 1 Submitted

Add Inherit Rules to IFS journalling

Today when you set up journalling for the IFS the STRJRN command allows you to filter the objects that are to be journalled, however this is a one off request and the inherit rules are not able to be set to allow future filtering of the objects jo...
21 days ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 0 Submitted

Add a Save Results As... option to the File or Tools menu.

Having to launch the 1980's File Transfer Program to pull down data is embarrassing. When I have a resultset in the lower pane, I should be able to simply save that resultset as XLSX or CSV to my local PC.
22 days ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

Enhance RPG IV RENAME F-spec keyword to support *EXTFMT or *RCDFMT

Please enhance the RPG IV File Spec RENAME (Rename Record Format) keyword so that a Developer can specify *ONLY or perhaps *RCDFMT or *EXTFMT (any are fine) so that the external format name need not be known at compile-time. Thus instead of RENAME...
22 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 1 Future consideration

Add information indicating that the session is open with ACS

Many companies are slowly converting video sessions from Client Access to ACS. In order to monitor the progress of these upgrades it would be useful to have an SQL service that lists the video devices, which also reports a field indicating that th...
25 days ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

change *ALLOBJ authority needed to drop columns using the ACS schemas editing interface

When you change a table (drop a column) through the ACS grapical interface you need *ALLOBJ to do so.The reason is that ACS adds and removes an autoreply (needing *ALLOBJ) to handle the inquiry message to confirm the drop (data loss) CPA32B2.When ...
26 days ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Future consideration

Automatically address file issue on the QAS9PALEVT file reaching full

The maximum size has been reached for member QAS9PALEVT file QAS9PALEVT in library QSRVAGT.
26 days ago in IBM i / System Management 1 Submitted

Add possibility to run an Excel macro from SYSTOOLS.GENERATE_SPREADSHEET

It would be convenient having the possibility to automatically run an Excel macro on a worksheet created by SYSTOOLS.GENERATE_SPREADSHEET. For instance to generate a chart based on the Excel data created.
27 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Not under consideration

IBMi AJS 7.5 is linked to previous 7.2 instead of current 7.5

I have updated my comments to the URL but as there were no response or changes I created this support. https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/ibm-advanced-job-scheduler-ihttps://www.ibm.com/docs/en/ssw_ibm_i_75/pdf/rzasnadjspdf.pdfthis URL is linked to...
27 days ago in IBM i / Documentation 1 Submitted

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