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Logical expressions resulting to *On/*Off

The result of a logical expression should evaluate to *On (True) or *Off (False) Use Case: DoW *On; // Infinite loopDoW *Off; // Bypass the loop. can be useful for testingDoU *Off; // Infinite loopDoU *On; If *On;If *Off;Etc. Now, compiler gives e...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 10 Delivered

Two-way communication framework

Currently, Instana is only able to collect information from IBMi but not able to feed requests back to IBMi. This is an important piece which our team used to reply and acknowledge events directly from user interface instead of logging into each L...
8 months ago in IBM i / System Management 3 Delivered

open source Node.js iToolKit

The following languages have open source iToolkits that allow for community collaboration and contribution: Ruby, PHP, Python, .NET, Swift, shell(db2util). And the one that doesn't: Node.js (arguably the most popular open source language IBM i has...
about 8 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 3 Delivered

ACS - Add system name to title for result windows

Run SQL Scripts provide the option to display results in a separate window. The title for the result window is the SQL string run. The script window title contains the system connected to. However, there is no system name in the result windows. Us...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Delivered

Add SQL URI_ENCODE / URI_DECODE Function

IBM i SQL URI_ENCODE / URI_DECODE Function required to provide native support for HTML entities conversion. Benefit: Enables decoded URI value to be stored in an IBM i table as UTF-8 and displayed in ACS. Especially useful when working with differ...
about 2 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 4 Delivered

allow V7.4 BRMS to support ZLIB compression for SAVF saves on Power 10

the IBM i V7.4 and V7.5 versions of the SAVxxx command support DTACPR(*ZLIB), so there is no "good" reason that BRMS cannot support the same parameters. CALL PGM(QBRM/Q1AOLD) PARM(('PARMOVR') ('*ADD') ('SAVFDTACPR') ('*ZLIB')) '*ZLIB ' not valid f...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / BRMS 4 Delivered

Dynamic LUN expansion allow expanding multiple drives concurrently

Dynamic LUN expansion is a great option to add disk capacity to existing IBM i LPARs with external storage. The only drawback is that the IBM i internal process is single threaded and only processes one drive at a time. Current project will take o...
about 2 years ago in IBM i / Storage 4 Delivered

BRMS report for omit objs

this request is for BRMS product on AS400 (IBM i). If it's possible to add the objects that being omitted from control group, especially IFS objs in the BRMS recovery report, or in any other Backup Analysis screen. Use Case: PMR 67780,004,000we ha...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 5 Delivered

STRSST: Remove diskette data recovery

STRSST4. Work with diskette data recovery.Diskettes have not been supported in decades. Use Case: Improve customer perception that service tools are being verified as still fully functional and supported.
about 4 years ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 2 Delivered

Please change the slash on the ACS Integrated File System to be a forward slash (/)

Currently when you are using ACS and the Integrated File System and it opens the IFS window the slash in the Directory is a backward slash (\). I would like to see this changed to a forward slash (/) because that is where everything is located. Us...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Delivered

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