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IBM i

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    Restoring individual Authorization Lists.

    When moving one customer from a SAAS LPAR to his own LPAR, you must be restoring ALL user profiles to get all Authorization lists. The SAAS LPAR is running multiple customers with over 1500 user profiles. If you want to move one customer with abou...
    2 months ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 3 Future consideration

    New compile option for embedded SQL allowing to raise SQL errors as RPG errors

    Something like EXEC SQL SET OPTION SQLERRHANDLING = *EXCEPTION; that would allow a user to trap exceptions like this: monitor; EXEC SQL SELECT * FROM TABEL_THAT_DOES_NOT_EXISTS; on-excp [Whatevere error code for SQL error]; //Do something endmon;
    about 2 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Not under consideration

    Keyword / Compiler Option to warn if a procedure uses global variable

    New Control Spec Keyword / Compiler Option to warn if a calculation in procedure uses a global variable Keyword: PROCGLBVAR with options *ALLOW *WARN *ERROR *allow - no compiler message if a calculation in a procedure references a global variable ...
    about 1 month ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 0 Submitted

    Enhance maximum variable length to 4GB

    More and more we need to handle data with sizes over 16MB ie XML, so it would help a lot if it was possible to handle the maximum amount of data in a variable. Therefore I would like to have the possibility to define variables in RPG with a size o...
    6 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 2 Under review
    310 VOTE

    *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 ...
    over 7 years ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 5 Not under consideration

    Edit copy members in the same editor window they are used in

    It would be extremely useful and functional to be able to edit the included copy (/copy) members in the same editor where the main program is being edited.The ability to edit copy members by opening them directly from the main source is very conve...
    10 days ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Under review

    Add *ALLUSR in command RSTLIBBRM

    RSTLIBBRM SAVLIB(*ALLUSR) - this is required to restore to another partition using BRMS network.
    11 days ago in IBM i / BRMS 0 Submitted

    A SQL view to display the information on a line

    A view or function that provides information as in the DSPLIND command or the API QDCRLIND More here : https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.6.0?topic=ssw_ibm_i_76/apis/QDCRLIND.html
    5 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 5 Future consideration

    Allow the evaluation of RPG expressions as "pseudo host variables" in EXEC SQL statements

    The idea is, to allow the evaluation of RPG expressions (including the call of %BIFs and procedures) inside an EXEC SQL statement as "pseudo-host-variables". The syntax could be like that: exec sql select count(*) into :myCounter from mytable w...
    4 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Not under consideration

    Further enhancements to the SQL scalar GENERATE_SPREADSHEET functionality to allow naming a sheet

    Along with the required enhancements to ACS to enable this in the scalar function, provide the ability to name that sheet when creating it in the xls or xlsx workbook. We now have the ability to append a sheet and specify which sheet to add so the...
    about 2 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Future consideration

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