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IBM i

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    Integrate SQL Object Name into IBM i Object Description

    More and more IBM i object types are being utilized by the SQL environment on IBM i. However, "the database" is supposed to be Integrated, not an add-on on this platform. Therefore when an IBM i object is repurposed as an SQL Object and a LONG nam...
    over 4 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 6 Not under consideration

    Add an option to prevent QDLS from being used

    IBM is recommending to stop using QDLS since 2010. Symmetric Multi Processing and using QDLS are also not a good combination. Sun setting QDLS is maybe a bridge to far, but giving the option to prevent QDLS from being mounted during the IPL, is ma...
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 3 Not under consideration

    Notify when DCM certificate is near to expire

    The improved DCM tool, like its predecessor, does not have notification functionality a few days before certificates expire. It would be very helpful if you can notify us via email or at least in QSYSOPR and set how many days in advance we want yo...
    over 5 years ago in IBM i / Security 8 Not under consideration

    Add a "Last Active" Timestamp or number of elapsed seconds since the last activity for a Job to WRKACTJOB and QUSRJOBI API

    While we know that interactive jobs have an inactivity timer on them, the Work Active Jobs (WRKACTJOB) and the corresponding API do not provide us with information on how long a user hasn't had an interaction with the 5250 session or a batch job h...
    5 months ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 1 Not under consideration

    ACS > run sql scripts allow reconnect to change profile

    In ACS > run sql scripts > reconnect > default to current user but, allow the user profile to be changed for the connection. This will help with testing out different sql scripts with different profiles.
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

    Provide a ?not in? operator.

    Now that we have a conditional “in” operator, please provide a “not in” operator, that can be used wherever “in” can, eg, with %lists, %ranges, arrays, etc. Use Case: Currently, to check if the value of a field is not in a list (or range, etc), we...
    over 4 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 2 Not under consideration

    Dark Mode For Run SQL Scripts

    I would like to be given a dark mode or the ability to control colors for Run SQL Scripts. Between the dark screen of the emulator and dark mode of RDI, it would be awesome to also have a dark theme for Run SQL Scripts. RDI gives the option to app...
    about 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 6 Not under consideration

    Remove or Relaxe the error when %SUBST length exceeds length of data

    The runtime for RPG currently blows up if %SUBST(var : START : LENGTH ) length value exceeds the length of the VAR or if it is 0.Provide an option to ignore this issue for runtime purposes. OPTION(*NOLENCHK) (No Length Check) which would cause run...
    about 4 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 10 Not under consideration

    ACS IFS Explorer - TreeSize-like functionality.

    I can't seem to find a good and intuitive tool to get an overview of the IFS. It would be nice to able to look at eg. the root folder and see for each folder how many files/folders/bytes are in that folder.Something like TreeSize for Windows' expl...
    over 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Not under consideration

    %SCANRPL to replace only *FIRST or *LAST occurence

    %SCANRPL is a nice and usefull function but sometimes we need to limit the replacement to the first or the last occurence. Use Case: When we use long varying strings with placeholders some of them are repeated and we cannot use %SCANRPL.
    over 7 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 5 Not under consideration

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