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IBM i IWS Client: Add option to allow unknown tags in response

My company used the Integrated Web Services (IWS) Client tool wsdl2rpg.sh to generate a *SRVPGM that we are using in production to consume a vendor partner's web service. Every few months the vendor releases enhancements to their web service, whic...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 1 Future consideration

Provide IBM i observability support for OpenTelemetry.io

OpenTelemetry or "Otel" for short provides a vendor-neutral open-source Observability framework for instrumenting, generating, collecting, and exporting telemetry data such as traces, metrics and logs. As an industry-standard it is natively suppor...
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 0 Future consideration

RDi: Add templates for CL and DDS

We have a number of templates which we use for the creation of new programs and display files, and having discovered templates within RDi, wanted to transfer them into RDi so they are at every developer's fingertips. Unfortunately, there's no supp...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Future consideration

provide "remove disk from configuration" operation in QYASSDMO

Please provide an operation to access "remove disk unit from configuration" via API QYASSDMO Use Case: we are using this API for several disk related operations (mainly adding disk storage to ASPs on running environments), but also want to reduce ...
almost 3 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 3 Future consideration

Add optional argument for XMLPARSE

To use XMLPARSE, the external encoding of the data need to be consistent with XML prolog. But, often, the encoding of the variable (in hosted langage or CLOB) isn't the same as original value. For example : when we receive an XML file by FTP or ot...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Future consideration

5733-ICC Incomplete uploads to COS

"Incomplete uploads" to COS should also be handled with ICC. Use Case: At the moment, such aborted uploads can only be deleted via APIs, which is not user-friendly.
over 3 years ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 3 Future consideration

Prevent IWS from Refreshing when browser resizes

When you have IWS open and you resize the browser either manually or by press ctrl+f, f12, etc IWS is refreshed. Use Case: Speed up the the use of IWS.
over 4 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 1 Future consideration

Vietnamese TS1 PDF on IFS using 5770TS1 product

Display Vietnamese Language correctly in PDF when Override PRTF file to PDF Stream File in IFS for subsequent email sending used. OVRPRTF FILE(xx) DEVTYPE(*AFPDS) WSCST(*PDF) TOSTMF('/xxxxxxxx/xxx.pdf') CHRID & FNTCHRSET can be used to achieve...
almost 3 years ago in IBM i / Print 3 Future consideration

Add an (optional) active query runtime counter.

Add an (optional) active query runtime counter. Use Case: There are times when I have long-running queries that I think should be finished at a certain time but are not. Without a counter of my own, I don't know how much real-time effort has passed.
almost 3 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Future consideration

Add support for Amazon private cloud to Cloud Storage Solutions for i.

IBM Cloud Storage solutions currently only supports Amazon public cloud. I would like to see Amazon private clouds enabled. Use Case: This would be used by customers who have an Amazon private cloud.
over 3 years ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 1 Future consideration

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