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*ESCAPE messages for SAVLIB

We have received MONMSG for CPF3795 in every SAVLIB running in our CL program: https://ecurep.mainz.de.ibm.com/rest/download/28061%2C100%2C838/2018-04-06/28061.100.838.SOURCE.txt?astext=true&fileSize=83568 But, when CPF3795 is reported saving ...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 5 Not under consideration

DATFMT(*JOBYY) for date fields in DDS

We want to control the format of our date field dynamically depending on a country or user setting. Normally you can use the DATFMT keyword to set the date's format. And all formats are supported. Our idea was to use DATFMT(*JOB) because we wanted...
5 months ago in IBM i / Application Development 0 Submitted

Navigator For I GUI interface and Function Usage

New Navigator for i is not designed to hide those icons (see figure 1) The function Usage (figure 2) is the solution to restrict usage but some ID function no longer works : example product functions ==> QIBM_XD1_OPNAV I find it frustrating tha...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / System Management 1 Future consideration

managment librairies list for librairies product with SQL *SYS Convention Name

When you use a select in SQL without qualification and SQL naming *SYS, you use the library list possibilities with a litle different *PRDLIB i have a command CMD PROMPT('test mycmd') PRDLIB(MYLIB) a program associate to thic command ...
2 months ago in IBM i / AI with IBM i 1 Submitted

ACS Printer Output - add options under Set Filter

My idea is to add additional date and time filter options in Access Client Solutions Printer Output Set Filter screen. Currently the options under Date and Time Created include "All date and times" and "To date and time". The All filter takes long...
18 days ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Future consideration

Allow %PROC BiF in the ON-EXIT

Allow the %PROC built in function to be used in the ON-EXIT group. That way if the subprocedure errors I can return the name of the subprocedure to whatever called it.
8 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 2 Future consideration

Add Update Version Check to ACS Emulator

Currently the version update check (when option is enabled) only works from the "main screen". Add an option to perform the test when the emulator is started. Outside of developers, most users have a limited number of IBM i servers to connect with...
10 days ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Functionality already exists

Enable iASP column in IBM Navigator list view

IBM Navigator for i brings in new functionality in every release and customers are appreciating it. However we are still missing this IASP column in the view when we are viewing two or more systems together. For the disk usage we have *SYSBAS incl...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / System Management 2 Future consideration

Named index of current iteration in for-each loop

I'm building some functionality that relies on several arrays that need to be filled, checked and modified on the fly. I like the for-each loop with dim(*auto: nn) for this. In the initial load proces I can use '*next' as an index, which is great....
4 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 1 Future consideration

Add TLS support for SNDDSTJS

Add TLS 1.3 support for SNDDSTJS to connect to a remote mail router without authentication. Advanced job scheduler notification properties does not have the option to enable TLS. TLS is required by some companies including financial intuitions.
2 months ago in IBM i / Security 1 Submitted

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