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Enhance QGYOLSPL or QUSRSPLA to Find Last SPOOLED File

Today with Print Server Jobs, Threads and SQL Server Jobs, the QSPRILSP is all but useless in these environments.This request is to enhance either the QGYOLSPL or the QUSRSPLA API so they have the ability to retrieve the identity of the Last Creat...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / Print 7 Future consideration

improve FTP Server Exit Point QIBM_QTMF_SERVER_REQ

Please consider updating this exit point to provide more information / events like* LOGOUT* end of SEND / RECEIVE operation (maybe including transfer rate)* LOGON > logon failure due to password error Use Case: extended logging using this exit ...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / Networking 6 Not under consideration

Provide tools for shared memory, mutexes, ...

In the original IBM i Access for Windows Navigator tools existed for managing shared memory, mutexes, ... Since the introduction of IBM i ACS and the web based Navigator these tools no longer exist wich makes development/troubleshooting much harde...
about 3 years ago in IBM i / System Management 4 Future consideration

CRTIMGCLG vs Server NAS

We manage a Outsourcing Services for Banking and Insurance Customers. Our policies and the customer directives request to save (all days) the application libraries and data libraries in multiple copies on the physical media tape. Now we save on th...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 2 Future consideration

Build SPENGO(SSO) into IAS websphere

We currently run Websphere 8.5 and SPENGO is built into the product. In order to move to OS 7.5 we need to get to Liberty or Websphere 9. From everything we have read Liberty(IAS) is the long term preferred web server. We need to have this ability...
10 months ago in IBM i / Web Serving 1 Future consideration

Large XML File Support for RPG

Our company processes XML files larger than 2GB on a regular basis, and we are currently unable to (easily) use RPG to parse these files beyond the 2147483408 character limit. Use Case: Enabling the RPG XML-SAX or XML-INTO operation codes to handl...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 4 Future consideration

WRKACTJOB - add a filter by Status

On our system, we frequently have thousands of jobs running. While we can sort by status, it would be very nice to be able to filter by status so we do not have to scroll across dozens of pages to get to the status we want to isolate, and also wou...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 4 Not under consideration

Allow text search when viewing job log for active job.

It would be fantastic if we could search for a text string within a job log of an active job, without having to DSPJOBLOG OUTPUT(*PRINT) and then searching the spool file. A simple text search function key would suffice and position the screen to ...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 4 Not under consideration

Add ability to use any RPG variable in an embedded SQL statement, including those that come from Qualified Dimensioned data structures

Programmers would benefit by not seeing the error - Variable :BLAH is not usable for reason X when writing exec SQL select statement in an RPG program. Some variables are allowed and some are not, but it is not always clear why this basic select d...
10 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Not under consideration

bring NATIVE graphical user interface to ibmi

bring NATIVE graphical user interface to ibmi, session based, fully supported natively by IBM, fully integrated with the operating system and workflow, as a normal display file for a RPG would be. Some solution exists indeed in the aftermarket usi...
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 5 Not under consideration

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