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IBM i

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Add extra Keywords &SYSNAME and &SYSDESC to Watermark Options

Currently the Watermark function you can use keywords : &COMPNComputer name&HOST - Host name defined within the emulator session.&ID - Current session ID.&NAME - Current session name.&USERN - User name that started the JVM. It ...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Delivered

PHP ODBC connections to MSSQL require FreeTDS

Our websites hosted on the IBMi require PHP connections to MSSQL database servers. This was possible with the Zend Server Free edition (expiring June 2021) with a PHP PDO driver plugin "dblib". With our migration to the RPM based PHP, there is cur...
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 3 Delivered

Enhance color-coding/readability

One of the many things that makes RDp a valuable IDE is the color coding it provides in RPG (opcodes, comments, field definitions, etc.). It's nice, but it could be better, in my opinion. I would really like to see any system reserved words color ...
over 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 6 Delivered

Make the number of concurrent copies of plan cache SQLs a dynamically configurable parameter

We have a very serious need to increase the number of concurrent copies of SQLs in the plan cache well beyond the current hard-coded limit of 3 copies. We currently have 631 production schemas, each with the same database and SQLs. It's a separate...
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 4 Delivered

Ending jobs controlled when HTTPPOSTCLOB (generally a ibm jvm) is involved

We are on a V7R2 IBM i machine:We have many self programmed prestart jobs which are correctly shut down onsubsystem end with option *cntrld. This was realized by evaluating thejob-end-flag in the main cobol program. Now we faced a problem with the...
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 4 Delivered

Requesting IBM i Service to return message text

Requesting IBM i Service to return message file text. values MESSAGE_FILE_TEXT(MESSAGE_NUMBER,MESSAGE_FILE,MESSAGE_FILE_LIBRARY,MESSAGE_DATA,'*FIRST')would return the first level message text. For a comparison seeRTVMSG MSGID(&MSGID) MSGF(&...
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Delivered

iACS - Run SQL Scripts - Access to the query from results window

The SQL query text is truncated at around 80 characters when displayed on the tab for the results pane or the window title when displaying results in a separate window. This can make it very hard to differentiate which results correspond to which ...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered

ACS Double-byte character (DBCS) data transfer Shift character is cut at upload

When uploading a double-byte character, if the number of field characters is over, the shift-out character will be cut.This request is to change ACS so that it has the same upload functionality as IBM iAccess for Windows.IBM iAccess for Windows da...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Delivered

IBM i - AutoSSH on YUM repository

Add AUTOSSH to YUM repository. It actually works using PERZL tool. Use Case: AutoSSH allows to create persistent connections, specially tunnels between systems with SSH. We use AUTOSSH to create tunnels between AWS EC2 and our system to access rem...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 1 Delivered

Add Processor Feature Code to Virtual Control Panel

Please also display the Processor Feature Code in the Virtual Control Panel within ACS. Yes, this is discoverable in the Serviceabliltiy section in the HMC, but I would like to see it added along side the MachineType, Model, Serial number informat...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered

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