IBM Power Ideas Portal


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    Refactor->Extract Procedure - for ILE RPG

    Code Refactoring is a well known software best practice that involves improving the structure of existing computer code while preserving its behaviour.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_refactoringEclipse already has excellent refactoring support ...
    about 9 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Delivered

    Add parameter for SEND_MESSAGE service that specifies Message Queue

    THE SEND_MESSAGE and LPRINT functions are nice, but many of us have message queue monitoring utilities and would prefer to pick where to send the messages to other than QSYSOPR. Notably, MS Copilot already claims the parm is there!
    7 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Delivered

    Annual/yearly option for i5/OS job scheduler

    Add a frequency (FRQ) of *YEARLY to the system job scheduler, to go along with the *WEEKLY and *MONTHLY options. Allow the user to enter a specific date as the schedule date (SCDDATE) for the first run of the job, or a special value such as *YEARS...
    about 7 years ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 6 Delivered

    Enable all AJS operations using Navigator for i on IBM i 7.5

    Even though the Advanced Job Scheduler menu in Navigator for i on IBM i 7.5 is currently incomplete and the older Navigator for i no longer usable. Users have no choice but to configure with 5250. Customers would like to perform all operations usi...
    about 2 years ago in IBM i / System Management 5 Delivered

    Allow for multiple commands from one cli process.

    When creating multiple connections via the acsbundle.jar /PLUGIN=cfg command. Each command is run in its own jvm which can take a long time to process when creating lots of connections. If we could string multiple commands into one jvm process thi...
    about 1 year ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered

    Make 15 second IO-Freeze time configurable

    When a FC port on a storage controller goes offline, the switch sends a RSCN event to AIX, which then freezes all IO on all disks that were logged in through that port for 15 seconds. This is part of the fast_fail and dyntrk options on the fscsi d...
    over 6 years ago in AIX 3 Delivered

    Enable volumes attachusing same NPIV when multiple IPG pools inside a SCG

    PowerVC not able to deploy VM with two NPIVs using a single SCG and multiple IPG
    almost 5 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

    provide "between" operator in rpg expressions

    Provide "between" in rpg logical expressions Use Case: if a >=b and a<=c ;could be replaced by :if a between b and c;
    over 9 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 11 Delivered

    Allow expressions in CL CALL and CALLPRC commands

    Allow expressions to be used in the PARM parameter of the CALL and CALLPRC commands. This would eliminate the need to declare single-use variables to serve as parameters. Use Case: Instead of this: dcl &Limit *char (9) dcl &CODate *char (6...
    over 7 years ago in IBM i / Languages - CL (Control Language) 3 Delivered

    Merlin Try and Buy

    It would be great if IBM could provide "Try and Buy" or "FREE (limited)" version of Merlin.I need to evaluate the software before buy it.
    over 3 years ago in IBM i / Merlin 5 Delivered

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