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IBM i

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Enable RPG compiler to take DSPF and PRTF definition from open format like XML/JSON

RPG is the main programming language used on the IBM i platform. It is well integrated with DB2, it is ILE, open with Open Access and has been modernized. It could be a first citizen language for cloud app but there is an obstacle to leveraging it...
about 8 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 12 Not under consideration

Support folders in iACS session manager

Provide the ability to create folders & sub-folders in the iACS session manager to allow better organization of display & printer sessions. Use Case: In situation where there are large number of display & printer sessions, it would be ...
about 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 7 Not under consideration

Support Microsoft .NET Core and .NET Framework on IBM i

Microsoft Corp. has "open sourced" the .NET Core and .NET Framework, as well as the .NET compilers, etc., so now is the time for IBM to bring the .NET Core and .NET Frameworks to IBM i. .NET is a major software development platform, on par with Ja...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 11 Not under consideration

Tools do assist with Spatial/GIS data on DB2 for i

When dealing with spatial data, it is quite common to use tools and/or products that assist in the manipulation and loading of this data. Even within the DB2 family (LUW and z/OS), there is the DB2 Spatial Extender which enables the import and man...
2 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Not under consideration

Add 2nd parameter to %UPPER and %LOWER to limit length of conversion in target variable

When working with buffers, such as VARCHAR(65535) or CHAR(65535) etc. I often get the length of the buffer returned to me by another function. What I would like to do is to specify that length as the 2nd parameter of %UPPER and %LOWER so that only...
2 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 2 Not under consideration

allow for parameters in the ACS .hod file for connecting to 5250 console

a user has to navigate 9 screens to get signed on to the system console. I would like to have parms in the .hod file for the console session to circumvent these screens.
4 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Not under consideration

ACS - HMC 5250 System Console - ability to set a default host code page and also set a default language/country on the "Welcome to Remote 5250 Console" screen.

When using the HMC Probe utility to open a new ACS HMC 5250 system console, the host code page always defaults to 037 even if the default.hod session profile ("<documents>\IBM\iAccessClient\OpCon\Sessions\hmc\<hmc_hostname>\s\default.h...
9 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Not under consideration

Moving old data from production tables to historic tables in another library

In an active production system such as we have being in a 24 hour service financial environment, we have an issue with old data that exists in many of our database tables. Every second new data is being recorded in this tables and old the old data...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Not under consideration

IBM i ACS data upload type casting

Hi, IBM i ACS is the replacment product for IBM i Access for windows. https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/633847 In Client Access for windows, it is possible to perform data download and data upload of a CCSID37 file that contains non CCSID 37 ...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

String interpolation for RPG

Add string interpolation support so variables can be inserted into string literals without having to use concatenation with + symbols and multiple literals. For example:apples = 4bananas = 3print(f"I have {apples} apples and {bananas} bananas") Us...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 11 Not under consideration