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Make Debug Server TCP endpoints available to the public

Terminology may be incorrect as not enough information is publicly available at the moment. Please allow connections to the Debug Server so debug sessions can be started remotely. It would be awesome if it could be well documented and language-agn...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 3 Not under consideration

Wrkactjob - Filter by user

Would help if the wrkactjob command could also filter for a specific user as well. Now you can only subset by subsystem. Usefull if you need to see wrkactjob per user as well. Now you have to press F16 on the wrkactjob screen and press F16. Work w...
about 2 years ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 2 Not under consideration

ACS /PLUGIN=cldownload

I user ACS "acslaunch_win-64.exe /PLUGIN=cldownload /clientfile=XXXX.CSV" CSV format is fixed to UTF8 I want to select something other UTF-8 as in the file details of data transfer . Shift_JIS , windows-31j ..etc Use Case: file transfer FROM IBMi ...
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

Enhance CL/ILE CALLPRC command to support External Programs

Via prototype and the EXTPGM keyword, RPG/ILE is able to invoke external programs using the CALLP op code. This has several advantages over the RPG CALL op code and I would like to be able to use at least one of those advantages in CL/ILE programm...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Languages - CL (Control Language) 5 Not under consideration

LPEX print preferences

Currently changing print preferences requires a familiarity with the various set and/or query commands. It's a very tedious process. I'm requesting that these settings be made part of the preferences. Settings that would be good to have available ...
about 8 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Not under consideration

improve STRCPYSCN and ENDCPYSCN

We would like to request the following: a) Eliminate the message following the STRCPYSCN that breaks to the customer a second after he got a break message to confirm the copy. b) Eliminate the 2 messages that appear following ENDCPYSCN on the user...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 2 Not under consideration

ACS IFS Copy function should use a permanent library

When ACS IFS to copy a stream file it will create a temporary library to perform the action. If the command is restricted it will fail and continue retrying without stop to run the CRTLIB command. The command either should not create a temporary l...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

AS/400 Advanced Job Scheduler functionality-57xxJS1

I have two requests for enhancing the Advanced Job Scheduler on As/400. They are closely related together.Initial issue has been found during PMR 46407,668,6681. Update remote system definition in AJD (file: QUSRIJS/QAIJSRMT) allow use FQDN. Curre...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 6 Not under consideration

No good way to specify a variable with list parameters.

Transferred from AD0276 - Since the early days of the CPF operating system on the System/38, We've been bedeviled by specifying variables for list parameters in CL programs. For every other parameter on the system, if you need to specify a variabl...
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 5 Not under consideration

avoid Event 3066 with signed IBMiAccess WindowsAP

Event 3066 is reported for IBMiAccess_v1r1_WindowsAP_English_1.1.0.27 Event 3066: This event records that a code integrity check determined that a process (usually lsass.exe) attempted to load a particular driver that did not meet the Microsoft si...
9 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

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