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Native ODBC parameter for trimming whitespace

When querying tables that contain fixed-length CHAR columns, the values that are returned retain their whitespace. Thus, a value like 'Acme Industries, Inc.' might take the form of 'Acme Industries, Inc. ' if the column is defined as 30 characters...
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 2 Delivered

Using the IFS for source is nice. It would be helpful if CRTSRVPGM allowed an IFS path for the export source file/member.

We are testing out using the IFS to store source files for RPG apps on the i, as opposed to using file objects. This works well but for CRTSRVPGM, you are forced to specify a file object and member for the export source file. We use custom export ...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 2 Delivered

Make the 'Mark Occurances' feature utilize the Next,Previous functions

Activate the capability to use CTRL+, and CTRL+. (Previous and Next) key stroke feature for the Mark Occurrences feature. Use Case: When you have source errors (in at least RPGLE source) or in a Eclipse compare you can use the CTRL+, (Previous) or...
almost 10 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Delivered

Enhancements To Navigator For i

In Navigator for i can the following enhancements be made; 1.) A clocking indicator when a task is running so that you know the Navigator is working on the task. 2.) I field can be added to User Maintenance that shows whether the user is enabled o...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / System Management 3 Delivered

Increase ACS display size

The ACS emulator screen is so much smaller than the equivalent screen in Client Access on the same monitor and has a large blank area around it for no apparent reason. This makes the screen harder to see and the font used appears distorted (squash...
about 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 6 Delivered

Set the OK button as the default action on ACS Window Setup Panel

In the ACS "Windows Setup" screen please make the OK Button the default action when pressing the enter key. And while yer fixin that can you make it so that the "Window Setup" list is actually cleared? They live forever until ACS is restarted. See...
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Delivered

SQL enhancement - allow mixed case in unqualified external names

Please allow the use of mixed case in unqualified external names when defining stored procedures or user defined (table) functions. Currently it is not possible to specify an unqualified external name where the routine name is in mixed case. The f...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Delivered

ACS Schema Browser - Allow for re-arranging columns

One issue we have run into many times is re-arranging columns in a table (due to table refactorings over time only allowing adding columns to end of table). Other database platforms allow for simple, 15 second changes that allow you to re-order co...
about 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered

Update IBM i JDK/PASE Products Not To Use IPv6 If Only IPv4 TCP Interfaces Exist

Currently, the IBM i Java Development Kit/Portable Application Solutions Environment products attempt to use IPv6 even if an IPv6 TCP Interface is not defined or usable on the IBM i server. As a result, Java TCP/IP Host Resolution Performance Issu...
about 7 years ago in IBM i / JAVA 2 Delivered

Display Edit Description (DSPEDTD) command to enclose the ?Integer mask' attribute within apostrophes

We have encountered issues when compiling DSPFs and programs that use Edit Description 9 a number of times in the past when deploying changes to client servers. When displaying an Edit Description (DSPEDTD), the Integer mask value is NOT enclosed ...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 2 Delivered

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