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    Added security options in WRKOBJBRM to prevent accidental restores to the original library

    Request Description: When using the WRKOBJBRM command in BRMS, selecting option 7 = Objects to restore, followed by option 1 = Select, results by default in a restoration into the original library, with the parameter: Restore library: *SAVLIB This...
    9 days ago in IBM i / BRMS 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...
    22 days ago in IBM i / Application Development 1 Submitted

    Extend the QCMDEXC SQL procedure and function to log the CL command run

    Many SQL programmers using the QSYS2.QCMDEXC procedure and function are logging the CL command specified as parameter to the procedure / function, often to the joblog by calling SYSTOOLS.LPRINTF, just before calling QCMDEXC. The idea is to have QC...
    23 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Future consideration

    Add Support for HTTP/2 to SQL HTTP Functions

    Currently looks like SQL HTTP Functions on support HTTP/1.1. I have a Vendor that is requestions that HTTP/2 be used with API.
    about 1 month ago in IBM i / Web Serving 1 Future consideration

    PowerVC support for multiple SCG to the SAME VM

    Customer would like to be able to have more than 1 SCG for a given VM, for example using SCG X for disk and SCG Y for Tape for the same vm, powervc doesn't currently support than one scg per vm
    15 days ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

    Db2 JSON functions for RPG data structures

    In some of the currently most used languages like Python and Node.js, it is common to define a data structure for your JSON payload, which is then easily transformed into JSON. In Python, we usually define a dictionary with all the fields and our ...
    about 1 month ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 4 Not under consideration

    Integrated File System tool: Allow us to change the size of the font

    In ACS's Integrated File System tool the font is too small. I want to be able, like I can in other ACS tools, adjust the size of the font.
    4 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

    Subfile size 32767 rows.

    Because the data to display are much more than in the past, we need to extend the maximum number of records allowed from 9999 to 32767.
    7 days ago in IBM i / Application Development 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...
    13 days ago in IBM i / Application Development 0 Submitted

    `xargs` should support `-0`/`--null` parameter

    xargs on AIX currently does not implement -0. While this is not part of the POSIX standard ( AFAIK, please check), it is implemented by every other implementation, including FreeBSD's. While the OSS toolbox's implementation /opt/freeware/bin/xargs...
    16 days ago in AIX 0 Submitted

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