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More than one statement per line

It would be nice to be able to put more than one statement per line in free format separated by the Semicolon. If X = 1; X=2; Else; X=3; EndIf; Would be an easy solution without changing the whole language to be similar to what other languages com...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 4 Not under consideration

AIX server time zone is EST5EDT. Need to transfer AIX Syslog entries to remote syslog server in UTC timezone format.

AIX server time zone is EST5EDT. Need to transfer AIX Syslog entries to remote syslog server in UTC timezone format. This is a priority request from InfoSec team. We have found solution for LINUX server whereas on AIX server as per "TS003340201" w...
over 4 years ago in AIX 11 Future consideration

ACS Java Print doesn't work, with OpenJ9(java)

ACS 1.1.8.0 can print a document with Oracle Java.But it can't print a document with Eclipse OpenJ9. Use Case: In the ACS 1.1.8.0, java print is supported. But install OpenJ9 instead of Oracle, java print doesn't work.
over 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Not under consideration

Add button in debug to terminate debug AND end job

I would like to have a button that would terminate debug AND end the job. The green screen debugger will end debug and the RPGLE program immediately when F3 is pressed. I would like the RDp debugger to have the same "one-click" functionality. I wo...
over 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Not under consideration

IBM i ACS - Please add menu option in Win 10

When installing ACS on Win 10 it does not create a menu option like previous versions. The is a problem as users will periodically delete the icons on the screen and they can then not start ACS. We need the menu option to allow users to access ACS...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

[AJS] Notification encoding

French special characters are not correctly formed when AJAX is sending notifications if smtp server use UTF-8. Use Case: SNDDSTJS RCP(PIERREYVES) SUBJECT('éèçàù') MSG('éèçàùêë')
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 4 Not under consideration

Search for a string in a spool file

I would like to beable to search for a text string in a spool file. Use Case: When I compile a program I have to goto the green screen to check the error in the program listing. Would like to be able to check for error without going to the green s...
over 9 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 6 Not under consideration

AJS: Add capability to SNDDSTJS to treat list of email addresses as a Recipient List

Advanced Job Scheduler: In SNDDSTJS, if a Recipient List is specified in the RCP parm, then one email is sent to all the recipients in that Recipient List as a group. If a list of email addresses is specified in the TOINTNET parm, a separate email...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / System Management 2 Future consideration

Enable block nesting in RPG source members

When editing and RPGLE source member you can use the block nesting function to have RDp connect the IF/ENDIF, DO/ENDDO, FOR/ENDFOR (etc.) statements. This is really nice if someone didn't do a very good job of indenting or if the group spans multi...
almost 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 9 Not under consideration

Increase the maximum size of LOB objects to at least 4GB but perferrably 2TB

The 2GB "limit" on LOB objects is sometime painful. The limit should be at least 4GB but other databases support LOB sizes up to 2TB. So since this is the premiere database, I think we should also have the highest limits.
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Future consideration

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