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IBM i

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    New QCALENDAR API.

    The new QCALENDAR API can be called when the user presses F4 on a date-type field and allows them to select a date.
    17 days ago in IBM i / Application Development 0 Submitted

    In Run Sql Scripts, visual explain, allow explanation to be refreshed

    When using Visual Explain, it would be useful to be able to refresh the explanations and recommendations after creating indexes.
    7 days ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 0 Submitted

    Provide *true & *false figurative constants for indicators

    To align with modern languages, please consider adding new figurative constants *true & *false for indicators.
    3 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 0 Submitted

    Develop a way to signon via QSECOFR account with a password less solution for ACS, Console and web-based applications.

    This is To Comply with Audit requirement to enforce all Privilege Access accounts to move away from visible Passwords .
    9 days ago in IBM i / Security 1 Submitted

    Create a "Code for IBM i" Extension for JetBrains PyCharm (similar to the one for Visual Studio Code)

    Currently, the "Code for IBM i" extension is available for Visual Studio Code, enabling developers working on IBM i to benefit from a modern and integrated development environment. However, many developers also use JetBrains PyCharm for their proj...
    4 months ago in IBM i / Application Development 2 Submitted

    Provide an up to date version of ICU - International Components for Unicode (5770SS1 - Option 39)

    Having to deal more and more with Unicode and some applications that are still restricted to EBCDIC codepages, I was looking at the ICU library but found out that the most recent version on IBM is 4.0 which dates from 2009 (more as 15 years old) ?...
    9 months ago in IBM i / Core OS 1 Submitted

    ICC product should provide information to BRMS indicating tape transfer has failed

    Hello, As per case TS019399743: "...I was working with development teams and sincerely apologize for delayed response. BRMS development team has checked and confirmed that ICC product do not provide information to BRMS indicating tape transfer has...
    4 months ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 0 Submitted

    Security issue: C runtime functions snprintf and vsnprintf return code is very much non-standard.

    This is useful because it allows C code to write functions securely and detect would-be buffer overruns that might result in security exposures. The return value for snprintf and vsnprintf are not consistent with C99 standard and most all other C ...
    about 1 month ago in IBM i / Languages - Other 0 Submitted

    Provide an API to extract the DSPPGMREF information

    There currently is no API to get the output of DSPPFMREF which makes extracting and development of tools cumbersome. There's *OUTFILE support but this is not flexible enough as it requires an intermediate step that complicates things like building...
    3 months ago in IBM i / Application Development 2 Submitted

    allow Object attribute PF-SRC in SAVCHGOBJ command (today only use attribute like DSPOBJD)

    This small detail would allow for more selective backups, especially in development environments where source code is of great importance. Currently, while selection by attribute is possible, the attribute used for selection is only PF for source ...
    about 1 month ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 0 Submitted

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