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git clone https needs curl-devel

To git clone a public repo without authentication requires going the https route, as shown below. % git clone https://aaronbartell@bitbucket.org/litmis/ibmichroot.gitCloning into 'ibmichroot'...fatal: Unable to find remote helper for 'https' That ...
about 8 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 3 Delivered

Change RNF ID & help text for global array starting with TAB

I ran into an issue yesterday where I created a global variable as an array. The variable name was Table_Title. When I attempted to access the array using an element ID (ie. Table_Title(1)), the compiler would throw an RNF0528 "The index is not al...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 3 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 ...
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 2 Delivered

Add Find Member option parameter to RUNSQLSTM

Need to be able to specify a source file, such as SRCFILE(QSQLSRC) without a library (hence, *LIBL) and have the command search for the member in QSQLSRC anywhere on the library list. Similar to how Find Member Processing = 1 option of theQUSRMBRD...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Delivered

Remove "Access for Web" topic from 7.5 Docs site to make it clear that it is not supported in 7.5.

To prevent customers' confusion, I would like IBM to remove "Access for Web" section from IBM i 7.5 Docs site. Access for Web is not supported on IBM i 7.5. -> https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/planning-upgrade-ibm-i-75-software But "Access fo...
about 2 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Delivered

Open Browsed Source Member for Edit

When browsing a source physical file member with LPEX, right-click on the member name tab brings up a menu with these options: Close, Close Others, Close all. Add a fourth option, such as "Open for Edit", to close the browse window and re-open the...
almost 9 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Delivered

ILE SQL Precompiler commands like CRTSQLRPGLE Parameter DBGVIEW should support more than just the Values *NONE and *SOURCE

As of today it is only possible to either request DBGVIEW(*NONE) or DBGVIEW(*SOURCE) when precompiling ILE SQL programs.Using *SOURCE is actually passed as *ALL to the backend compiler, which causes all possible debug views to be generated. Usuall...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 4 Delivered

Keep Live Outline Updated with Copybook Definitions

Live Outline requires a refresh to pick up new data structures (and possibly other variables) when a copybook it references is updated. I understand that. However, after the refresh, it easily looses the information it just got from the copybook. ...
almost 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 8 Delivered

IBM i COBOL build in IFS file

RDi now support Git for COBOL source version control in utf-8 code in IFS. So we want the COBOL source file in IFS to compile using CRTBNDCBL command directory. But we have to convert the source from utf-8 to EBCDIC in IFS. So CRTBNDCBL command ca...
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / Languages - Other 5 Delivered

Table "Files" should contain entries for all the known types used for source file members by default and not only a subset.

When opening a stream file in the IFS with the LPEX editor, then the LPEX editor has to determine if the stream file contains text or binary content. This will be done by the extension of the stream file name and the content of the table "Files" i...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Delivered