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ACS Printer Output - Export spool file list to Excel

It would be nice if we had the ability in ACS Printer Output to export the list of spool files that displays (after filters have been applied). Not download a spool file, but rather the list of spool files. We can use this list to help users deter...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

Provide SQL service that validates a character variable etc. as a valid OS name

Why is it useful? Currently there is functionality within the OS to validate a character string as a name. Command definitions provide this and CHECK keyword in display files too. There is no equivalent in SQL. We have several stored procedures th...
6 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Future consideration

Full support of Field Reference File (FRF) in SQL

When creating tables via SQL it is not possible to use the concept of a FRF to define fields in a consistent way and especially query the catalogs later on to find the origin of a field. A workaround is a CREATE TABLE AS however this doesn't suppo...
10 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Not under consideration

Modern ILE C++ Compiler (at least C++11) and future support

We need a modern ILE C++ compiler (at least C++11). Furthermore this compiler should be frequently updated within a IBM i release. In order to be able to provide our software long term for the IBM i platform, we would also need support for newer v...
about 3 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 8 Future consideration

Ctrl+Left/Right Arrow should navigate syntactic word boundaries

RDI does not properly recognize token boundaries when navigating text. In Windows text editors, Ctrl+Left and Ctrl+Right are used to move the insertion point to the beginning of the previous or next word. This navigation does function in RDI, but ...
about 3 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 6 Future consideration

BRMS to ignore some non-critical errors when saving spools

BRMS does stop save procedure in some cases of non-cricital errors like saving QUSRSYS with some spool files damaged. It would be preferrable to have BRMS by default ignore the errors, post more detailed information into DSPLOGBRM and continue sav...
about 4 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 5 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
3 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

Add bit identifiers to DCL-DS subfields in RPG IV

I'd like to have the ability to declare a bit field in an RPG IV data structure. In the C language, you might have a structure like this: struct _Gen_IOP_T { /*Gen IOP breakdown structure for MATMATR*/ char Bus; /* Bus Number */ int Card : 4; /...
11 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 2 Future consideration

Require QIBM_DB_SECADM or similar to perform set session authorization

Today any user with *ALLOBJ is able to do the equivalent to sudo in Linux without the need of any password to become another user using set session authorization via SQL. Any user with *ALLOBJ can become Qsecofr by open strsql and run: “Set sessio...
about 2 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 5 Not under consideration

Migrate Web Administration TLS Wizards to Navigator for i

According to document 7130983, Web Administration for i GUI is migrating to Navigator for i. One important function of the current GUI is not mentioned though- the Wizards to enable and disable TLS for both the HTTPS ADMIN server and the IAS ADMIN...
11 months ago in IBM i / System Management 3 Future consideration

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