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IBM i

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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

iACS - HOD

we have done a network installation of iACS inside our IFS with restricted access for functions like "run SQL-Scripts". Our Users can only see the 5250-Emulator and their SPLFs. We have entered the restrictions inside the AcsConfig.properties-file...
about 3 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

Save Results Sets to the IFS

Enable the 'Save Results' feature of Run SQL Scripts to save the output to the IFS of the connected server. This enables data extracted to be kept on the originating server e.g. for data security purposes and for environments where users are not a...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Future consideration

Add Source Change Mark column to Source Physical Files to promote move to **FREE and preserve historical metadata

With the addition of **FREE support for RPGLE, the prior use of columns 1 - 5 goes away. However, the vast majority of developers use these 5 characters to put a 'change mark' to tie source code changes back to a project or reason for the change. ...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Make RSS your own Examples easier to maintain.

The functionality in RSS to insert from Examples and to save as New Example is absolutely great. As IBM keeps enhancing what we can do with SQL, like the prompting for statement variables addes in ACS 1.1.9.2, would it not be great if we could upd...
8 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Submitted

Allow seamless Git integration with RDi

Make Git adoption in RDi seamless for RPG developers. RDi currently has iProjects which can be used to adopt Git, but iProjects operate on the premise of offline editing. Not all RPG developers are going to be editing offline. Use Case: Focus on a...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 7 Future consideration

Dark Mode For Run SQL Scripts

I would like to be given a dark mode or the ability to control colors for Run SQL Scripts. Between the dark screen of the emulator and dark mode of RDI, it would be awesome to also have a dark theme for Run SQL Scripts. RDI gives the option to app...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 5 Not under consideration

Add new Column on Alternative SBS Routing main display for Number of Configured IPs in Navigator for i

We want to add a new Column on Alternative SBS Routing main display for the Number of Configured IPs in Navigator for i, just like the column Number of configured Users! The reason is that we want to have a first quick display of configured IPs pe...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / System Management 3 Future consideration

%SCANRPL to replace only *FIRST or *LAST occurence

%SCANRPL is a nice and usefull function but sometimes we need to limit the replacement to the first or the last occurence. Use Case: When we use long varying strings with placeholders some of them are repeated and we cannot use %SCANRPL.
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 5 Not under consideration

Cloud Storage Solutions for i 5733ICC - Multi-threaded downloads

I've configured the mutil-threaded uploads for this product and it made a significant improvement to the upload times. It would be beneficial to be able to do this for the downloads.
7 months ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 3 Under review

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