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AIX LDAP Client (secldapclntd) Performance Enhancement

Current AIX secldapclntd implementation consumes significant resources and provides slow respond under larger load (thousends of clients). More info in support cases TS009747392 and TS009832647.
10 months ago in AIX 0 Planned for future release

Add Case Conversion to RPG Subprocedure Parameters

Add support to automatically convert Subprocedure Parameters to Upper or Lower case using OPTION(*UPPER) or OPTION(*LOWER) keywords on the parameter definition. Obviously, this would be for CHAR, VARCHAR parameters that are also CONST or VALUE. It...
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 10 Future consideration

ACS - Run SQL Scripts disable "insert from examples" for selected users

We have been using Access Client Solutions for several years. Mainly the 5250 sessions are used by our users, but there are also selected power users who are authorized to use the function "Run SQL Scripts".For this users it is also possible to us...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Not under consideration

Usage of Enumeration in "Outline"-View

When we declare fields, files, enumerations etc. we can see them in our Outline-view and click on them to jump to their declaration in the code.With normal fields, files etc. we also get the references which indicate in which line they are used an...
4 months ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Future consideration

DATA-INTO Parser can access Populating Data Structure's Field attribute details

This would allow the parser to make better decisions in many cases. For example, Example 1: If we need the add some custom logic like if a data is getting truncated. If parser have access to know the populating field attribute it will be possible ...
about 1 year ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 2 Future consideration

Allow RDi to use saved ACS configuration.

RDi includes Access Client Solutions (ACS), but it doesn't allow you to use a saved configuration (e.g. 5250 .HOD file). This limits the usefulness of this tool
over 1 year ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Future consideration

Rdi Debug Step Over enhancement - Exec SQL statements

Currently when debugging RPG code with RDi in *SOURCE view, Step Into and Step Over will have to be pressed an unknown number of times to clear a single Exec SQL Statement. This is because the SQL Precompiler replaces Exec SQL Statements with mult...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 7 Future consideration

Suppressing Hardware Problem messages

We normally get the messages related to any hardware problem on the IBM i O.S which is good if it is on-prem server. But considering a user who has cloud based subscription for an LPAR in the IBM Cloud then these kind of messages doesn't makes any...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 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...
2 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 3 Future consideration

Partition Virtual Storage Diagram - update label from OS400 to IBM i

The Partition Virtual Storage Diagram produces an excellent diagram - but it shows the partition name and labels it as OS400. Rather out of date
10 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Planned for future release