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High risk in IFS file system management

The Actions | Delete command within the Navigator for I web-based IFS interface allows the user to purge the entire contents of the folder they are viewing if no objects are selected. I've attached a PMR number under which we recovered from this v...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / System Management 5 Delivered

Enhancement to Show Block Nesting for Else and When

Currently Else and When are ignored when Show Block Nesting is requested. Else and When could easily be shown also with a horizontal line connecting to the innermost vertical line. The horizontal line would (should) never need to go beyond the inn...
over 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 7 Delivered

Implement TCP Selective Acknowledgements

Instead of re-transmitting the packet AND ALL SUBSEQUENT packets in a block, instead use Selective Acknowledgements to re transmit ONLY the packet in error. Today IBM i re-transmits many times the number of packets that are actually required! Use ...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Networking 3 Delivered

ACS System positioning

When using the Integrated File System of IBM i ACS, there is an option to end a file to another IBM i system. As we have several systems in the System Configuration it would be nice if we could use a letter to start positioning when selecting a sy...
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 7 Delivered

Ability to read payloads when the web service is returning an error HTTP status code

When consuming web services using SYSTOOLS HTTP functions it would be important to have the ability to read payloads when the web service is returning an error HTTP status code like 422 Unprocessable Entity.The web apis served by IBMi are already ...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Delivered

Fix the Help system to use the information available

If I press F1 with an op-code highlighted in the editor (or even if it is not highlighted) it should show me the op-code in question - not a list that I have to scroll though. It works this way in fixed form - it is crazy that it doesn't in /Free....
over 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Delivered

Filter RPG view by unused variables

At version 9.6 of RDi we can see which variables are not in use in various ways. Add to the "Filter view" context-menu option the ability to select "Unused" Use Case: With the current support I still need to scroll through a source member, looking...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 6 Delivered

Option to Respect Overrides on QDFRPRTA API

After applying OVRPRTF to a PRTF and then opening that file in a HLL program like RPG, I need to know the various Print File Attributes as applied vs the current "at creation time". The QDFRPRTA could have a new parameter like the QUSRMBRD (retrie...
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / Print 6 Delivered

IWS - Enable tiered architecture for IBM Integrated Web Services for IBM i

Enable IWS to connect over a network from the IWS to a backend/RPG partition. The toolbox driver is used for the connection today, but the implementation in IWS is not supporting installing the IWS to another LPAR vs where the RPG program is insta...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 3 Delivered

Preserve case sensitivity of identifiers for COBOL web services

When creating webservices currently COBOL does not have a way preserve the case of identifier names used in the COBOL program when generating PCML. Use Case: When interacting with Nadir Amra from IBM, amra@us.ibm.com, whilst trying to solve a prob...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / Languages - Other 5 Delivered

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