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IBM i

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Add the option to change 5250 color's when using command line switches

When using command line switches to automate 5250 sessions it would be great to be able to change the text color in the 5250 session. This removed the need to have a .HOD file and if a user saves a hod file it is ignored as the new session is buil...
10 days ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

Enhance the File Expiration Date on SAV commands

Right now, you have two options with the File Expiration Date on save commands: put *PERM for permanent or specify a specific date. Ideally, you would want to say "30 days from now" but there's no way to do that without putting the command in a pr...
25 days ago in IBM i / Core OS 0 Submitted

simplify the procedure to install the license key

the procedure to install the license key is awfully complicated and error prone and requested tech support which superseded the instructions that are poor and incomplete.
about 1 month ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Future consideration

Include LF with shared access path in SYSPARTITIONINDEXES and SYSPARTITIONINDEXSTAT

SYSPARTITIONINDEXES and SYSPARTITIONINDEXSTAT include many usefull informations about logical files (DDS type). Since they are a valid substitute for the use of APIs, it would be very useful if logic files with shared access were also included in ...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Not under consideration
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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 ...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 5 Not under consideration

Enable options(*exact) for indicators.

I am the developer of RPGUNIT and recently I added procedure assertEqual() to it. This procedure handles all data types, because it uses the OVERLOAD keyword for delegating the call to the procedure that is in charge for the data type. dcl-pr asse...
6 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 2 Under review

Add WHEN-IS-NOT clause to the new SELECT statement

The traditional SELECT/ENDSL allows when a=b and also allows when a <> b. However, the new SELECT/WHEN-IS/ENDSL does not allow a negative comparison, and forces me to go back to the older style. In this shop [and others I have worked in], th...
4 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 3 Future consideration

IBM ARE - Problem with PTF comparison

We have a central system for the PTF comparison on which all licensed programs and PTFs including save files are installed. If we now start a PTF comparison with IBM ARE from this central system to an LPAR on which NOT all licensed programs are...
2 months ago in IBM i / System Management 0 Submitted

BASH as a SQL service ( SQL scalar function)

Lots of great tooling is available in PASE via bash. It would be appreciated if commands could be executed using a "user defined function" returning a CLOB for the stdout. An implementation can be found here. https://github.com/NielsLiisberg/sql-o...
3 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Future consideration

Fix bug in CHGSMTPA

When you run CHGSMTPA you can choose SBSD in which you can run smtp jobs. This parameter allows putting 10 chars for the *sbsd object and 10 chars for the library. When you use a 10-character library in the parameter, however, errors occur in both...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Networking 0 Submitted

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