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Support derived keys on field procs

System: Customer Service Maintenance Actor: User needing a previously available feature. Description: Hiper group PTF SI39169, released on 04/21/2010, added a constraint that restricted the creation of logical files with derived keys (functions su...
almost 10 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i Not under consideration

HMC user profiles policy

Hello, I was trying to find a way to setup the user profiles on the HMC to automatically be disabled after x amount of tries with the wrong password. However, the way I understand it, the HMC's local password policy does not have this capability. ...
almost 10 years ago in Hardware Management Console Not under consideration

Request a pthreads API for assigning names to individual threads.

pthread_setname_np / pthread_getname_npRequest a pthreads API for assigning names to individual threads. The interface can be non-portable. There is no known API for this currently implemented in AIX 7.1 thru TL3. Requirements:- Ability for a thre...
almost 10 years ago in AIX Not under consideration

Request that glob() be amended to be thread-safe.

This request considers the case when glob is running on one thread, while filesystem operations (open, stat, etc.), with relative pathnames, are being conducted on another thread. The current implementation of glob (through AIX 7.1 TL3 SP3) uses c...
almost 10 years ago in AIX Not under consideration

Using RDPi ability to change the source date for specific member

How to change the source date of all the records for a specific member. From green screen using PDM this can be achieved by opening the member in edit mode (opt 2) then press F13 key which opens the "Change Session Defaults" screen where under ?Se...
almost 15 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) Not under consideration

Ability for Replacing PF/LF objects while compilation from RDP/RBD

It will be nice to having ability of replacing PF/LF objects while compilation from RDP. After going to Window ?> Preferences ?> Remote Systems ?> IBM i ?> Command Execution then checked the box for Replace object and unchecked Compile...
almost 15 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) Not under consideration

Request to make the API getwparstate() threadsafe

We use the API getwparstate() to fetch the wpar status as active or not. This API works if invoked from within a main() execution of the program. However, this API is failing to return correct state when it is invoked from a thread. We took help f...
almost 10 years ago in AIX Not under consideration

Enable Ctrl (and other) keys to repeat

This is for ACS - Accessw Client Solutions. I would like to be able to have the Ctrl key be a repeatable key. Its' location is similar to the NewLine key from the 5250 terminal family and is commonly mapped to perform that function. Use Case: Keyb...
almost 10 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family Not under consideration

Make RDi available for Mac

Can we make RDi RPG/COBOL development tools available for MAC OSX? I understand that in the past the delay was due to the lack of verifier routines to run on OSX, but even a version without these would allow Mac users to use the tool to gain busin...
almost 10 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) Not under consideration

Provide error handler for secondary thread of multi-threaded job

When a multi-threaded job encounters an unhandled exception, the system should be able to gracefully handle the error with the standard *INQ message to *EXT or QSYSOPR. Background When an unhandled exception occurs in the secondary thread of a mul...
almost 10 years ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging Not under consideration

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