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    Allow stored procedures created as *PGM objects to be called as exit point programs

    When using the CREATE PROCEDURE SQL statement to create a *PGM Object it is NOT possible to call the generated object outside of SQL; doing so results in an error reporting "Pointer not set". Looking at the code generated as an intermediary step i...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 4 Not under consideration

    Clock Card Concurrent Maintenance

    Client experienced Customer Impacting Event on 9/12/17. Was told that concurrent maintenance is not an option on Power8 9119 MHE and that an outage would be required to replace clock card to ensure redundancy going forward. PE and Service Availabi...
    over 8 years ago in Power Systems Design 2 Not under consideration

    support multibos under VIO

    Support of multibos under VIO.
    over 8 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 2 Not under consideration

    Granting *USE access for programmers for all users

    We recently migrated to a power 8 box with V7R3 and we discovered that the programmers cannot invoke a STRSRVJOB for a regular user (non-programmer, no special authorities) job in the system. Support says to log in as QPGMR or grant *USE on the ta...
    over 5 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 3 Future consideration

    Declare variables and call procedures directly on the declare

    Today if we want to call a procedure that has a return value, we have to declare the variable, data structure etc and then call the procedure like this: dcl-s eligiblefreight packed( 11 : 3 ); eligiblefreight = rlsitm_getEligibleFreight( batch ); ...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 3 Not under consideration

    New Navigator for i - textured chart support like the heritage Navigator

    In the Heritage Navigator - Investigate Data charts, I used textured bar graph a lot and I find this useful feature missing from the New Navigator. Please deliver it soon. Thanks.
    almost 3 years ago in IBM i / System Management 1 Not under consideration

    Display AIX LPAR "Variable Capacity Weight" in 'topas -C' view

    Please enhance the 'topas -C' view to display the "Variable Capacity Weight" for each AIX partition in the Cross-partition panel view. Or provide a new option, along with -C, to display this information. The "Variable Capacity Weight" can be displ...
    over 8 years ago in AIX 3 Not under consideration

    Change search error details to be RDi specific

    When using the search function (flashlight button) in RDi, if the search entered is something like this: &amp then you'll get an error. The error details starts talking about CL and REXX variables. It does, at the end, say to wrap the value in...
    over 11 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Not under consideration

    Record/audit all user profile parameters/fields

    We log all user profile changes into a database table. This works very well using the user profile exit points (QIBM_QSY_CHG_PROFILE etc). For some time we have decided to store additional information (eg. company number) in the user profile objec...
    over 8 years ago in IBM i / Security 1 Not under consideration

    Search all spool files in a output queue

    We have a output queue which contains a spool file for each customer order we receive. We occasionally need to search those spool files for a customer number to see the order at the time it was originally sent. I currently go through each spool fi...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM i / System Management 4 Future consideration

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