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    Add new function *BLANKS and *ZEROS on CLP

    Implement a new function, on CLP language, to initialize a variable with Blanks or Zeros Use Case: DCL VAR(&CHAR) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(1000) DCL VAR(&NUM) TYPE(*DEC) LEN(10 5) CHGVAR VAR(&CHAR) VALUE(*BLANKS) CHGVAR VAR(&NUM) VALUE(*ZEROS)
    almost 9 years ago in IBM i / Languages - CL (Control Language) 5 Not under consideration

    Provide Split Screen Capability for all iSeries file types in RDi

    We currently do a large amount of SQL development on the iSeries via RDi 9.0 and split screen capability is not available for SQL source members defined with a file type of SQL (non-standard). There is no good standard file type that is available ...
    about 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 7 Not under consideration

    Implementation of restore function that does not change the state of the access path

    We would like you to implement the restore function that does not change the state of the access path by implicitly shared access paths. Our customers are having trouble getting their program to do something unexpected by save and restore. We wou...
    over 3 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 6 Not under consideration

    PowerHA make use of the SVC tiebreaker information

    For SVC Stretched Cluster based PowerHA implementation. For split-brain situations, it would be very helpful if PowerHA would be able read the decision made by the underlying SVC cluster.
    almost 6 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 0 Not under consideration

    Add support for data structures in CLP

    Provide the ability to declare data structures in the CLP language. Ideally both internally defined and externally defined (based on a physical file, like RPG). Something like ... DCLDS NAME(&DSNAME) DCL VAR(&SUB1) TYPE(*char) DCL VAR(&...
    over 6 years ago in IBM i / Languages - CL (Control Language) 11 Not under consideration

    WRKUSRPRF - search for part of name in description

    I would like to have the possibility in WRKUSRPRF to search for a given string in the description of the user profile. If the users for example have the name Jens Petersen or Peter Jensen then I would like to be able to find them searching with th...
    over 6 years ago in IBM i / Languages - CL (Control Language) 8 Not under consideration

    Provide encapsulation in RPG

    Provide encapsulation to RPG so we don't need to mimic it via pointers and get easier to read coding. Currently I'm writing; pObject = MyCreate();MysetValue(pObject: 'attr': 'value');MydoSomething(pObject);MyDestroy(pObject); ... which would be ea...
    over 7 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 7 Not under 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...
    almost 9 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 4 Not under consideration

    Add ability to generate performance graph data from R720 Collection Services data in Navigator for i

    Since PM for Power is being discontinued on September 30, 2020, clients need a way to view graphed performance data for all supported releases. Links to external letters for different geographies with the discontinuance statement:IBM Americas - Un...
    over 5 years ago in IBM i / Performance Tools 3 Not under consideration

    Determine CCSID depending on content of the file

    One of the big challenges when receiving text files via FTP etc from external sources is to determine what CCSID it is encoded in. By default 1252 or 819 is used but often it should be 1208 ( UTF-8 ) instead. Especially when it is XML-files. If th...
    over 5 years ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 12 Not under consideration

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