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IBM i

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    ACS Run SQL Scripts needs a scalable dialog box (open file)

    Referring to the Run SQL Scripts application within ACS. Selecting File, Open, then PC file to open a saved SQL statement, the rendering of the Open dialog box is terrible. See attached image. One third of the dialog box is completely unused The c...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 5 Delivered

    New IBM i SQL Service to Retrieve Certificate Usage Information

    Need a DB2 SQL Service equivalent to API : Retrieve Certificate Usage Information (QYCDRCUI, QycdRetrieveCertUsageInfo) Use Case: We already have the CERTIFICATE_INFO table function, this would allow to know the certificates used (by DCM applicati...
    about 4 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 5 Delivered

    Additional CLI options for acsbundle.jar /PLUGIN=cfg /SYSTEM=<system>

    Request for enhancement to acsbundle.jar /PLUGIN=cfg /SYSTEM=<system> Please add cli options for additional settings, so that all system configurations can be set via the CLI for scripting. In short if there is an option in the GUI it should...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Delivered

    Add an RPG refactor feature to add the ALIAS keyword to a file or data structure and handle all the renames

    Using the alias names for externally-described files or data structures makes the RPG code more readable. But it's difficult and error-prone to change an existing program to use the alias names instead of the short names, even using RDI's existing...
    over 7 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 6 Delivered

    Add license expiration to list of systems screen in Navigator

    I'd like to see the results of this sql: select license_expiration from qsys2.license_info where product_id in ( '5770SS1' ) and feature_id= '5050' and installed= 'YES' ; On each system in the dashboard view Suggested spot for result
    almost 2 years ago in IBM i / System Management 4 Delivered

    See the value of a named constant in the debugger.

    A developer needs the ability to interrogate the value of a named constant. For more information, see CAAC requirement AD0183 at https://www.ibmilug.ihost.com/commonag/treqs.nsf/9c76f872792db457862573af004e1b49/15e2bf03abc04e6486257611000cc6cd?Ope...
    over 7 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 7 Delivered

    DCM *SYSTEM store password in admin-cust.xml files

    In the security configuration files from ADMIN application servers (ADMIN1, ADMIN3, ....) the *SYSTEM store password is weakly encoded with {xor} and is easy to obtain if you have access to admin-cust.xml file in /QIBM/UserData/OS/ADMININST/[admin...
    about 1 year ago in IBM i / Security 2 Delivered

    Add native 2FA and/or MFA for 5250 and other interfaces to data

    Data security insurance and other requirements are requesting Two Factor Authentication or Multi Factor Authentication access to data.
    over 2 years ago in IBM i / Security 5 Delivered

    UUID datatype for IBMi

    A UUID is a Universally Unique Identifier, meaning that these identifiers are unique over your whole DB; even better unique" across space and time". UUID's are stored in 128bit format and follow a standarized format (rfc4122) This makes the type a...
    over 3 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 9 Delivered

    Extend ON-ERROR to accept message codes

    In our codebase, we use a lot of user-defined message codes in *ESCAPE messages for our exception handling. We combine these with RPG's MONITOR op-code to trap the errors and, if possible, handle them. Identification of the last exception message ...
    over 4 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 4 Delivered

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