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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 ...
almost 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...
about 7 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 3 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

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...
over 8 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

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

Name the SQL programing language PL/SQL on IBM i

When coding stored procedures, UDTF and compound statement we have a nice language without a name. To be consistent across the industry it seems like the name PL/SQL (Procedural Language/Structured Query Language) is used for other databases - inc...
about 5 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Delivered

Collection Services Historical Data should be created by default

The ability to create historical data by Collection Services is off by default. Too many clients are not aware of this feature and have not enabled historical data collection. The default should be changed to create historical data. In addition, t...
about 5 years ago in IBM i / Performance Tools 1 Delivered

Request for continuous printing of using PDT file of ACS

・ Print multiple spooled files in succession.・ The attributes such as page size, CPI, LPI of each spooled files are the same value.・ Use PDT. exampleExecute three consecutive spooled files of the page length is 27 rows.Use default PDT file「IBM 557...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 7 Delivered

Need ability to manage which users are stopped when an SEP breakpoint is reached

Some debugging we really need to call through web front end to test with how information is set up. This means we use the same userid all people in the environment are assigned by the connector. Since debug stops as soon as the program is called. ...
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 5 Delivered

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