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IBM i

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    Use the Partition/System Name Consistently

    The nomenclature SYSNAME is associated with the RTVNETA command since before Partitions existed. It is now often known as the System/Partition or LPAR name. While IBM does display the System Name on UIM screens and menus, and stores it within crea...
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / Core OS 3 Future consideration

    Show true data type of parameters declared with *EXACT

    When showing content assist, or in the Outline view, when displaying the prototype of a procedure, show the actual declared data type for the parameters declared with options(*EXACT). This keyword requires that we pass a variable declared EXACTLY ...
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Future consideration

    External Tables

    It would be very useful to have tables whose content is given by text files, such as Oracle's External Tables. in Oracle this functionality is obtained like this: CREATE TABLE my_ext_table ( id NUMBER, author VARCHAR2(30), created DATE, text CLOB ...
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Future consideration

    prefix field length limited to 10 should be increased

    bug fix This program the same field name in 2 files, in an external data structure for each file. So I put a prefix on the Dcl-F & Dcl-DS of the second file prefix(AUTHDR_) and it still would not compile. I shortened the prefix(A_) and the pro...
    over 2 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 2 Future consideration

    PDF certificate

    Using Info print server convert spooled file to be PDF and Include certificate (CA) Use Case: As a insurance company, we use infoprint server to convert spooled file of policy document to PDF and sent to customer.in soon, The government would anno...
    over 9 years ago in IBM i / Print 4 Future consideration

    Optionally Show Hover Text in Fixed-Width Font

    RPG is coded in a fixed-width font, including comments. This allows multiple lines to have data line up in the same place, including in comments. However, when those comments are shown in hover text (e.g. for prototypes) they're shown in variable-...
    about 5 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Future consideration

    Move lines Up or Down in RDi/LPEX

    RDi has a setting to move a line up or down (using ALT + UP / ALT + DOWN) that does not work in the LPEX Editor. Can we please enable that? Use Case: Rather than copying a line and pasting it elsewhere in your code - Hitting ALT + DOWN will move t...
    about 6 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Future consideration

    Allow Visual Explain query plan to be saved to local file

    Currently Visual Explain has two options: you may save the diagram as an image, or save the query details to a performance monitor on the IBM i. I would like to see a third option available, to save the query details to a local PC file (and subseq...
    over 3 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Future consideration

    Enable a command to load an IFS file to a raw *USERASCII printer file like i.e. CPYFRMSTMF

    Please enable a command to load an IFS file to a raw *USERASCII printer file. i.e. to support direct PDF or PS or PCL etc. file load. One idea: add an option to CPYFRMSTMF to indicate a printer file. Use case: i.e. get a shipping PDF label from a ...
    over 2 years ago in IBM i / Print 2 Future consideration

    Better Cumulative PTF display

    When doing an option 8 from Go PTF, when installing say PTFs from an image catalogue, the display refreshes very quickly as it loads the PTFs Tracking the progress is difficult as particularly the message at the bottom of the screen showing the pr...
    over 3 years ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 3 Future consideration

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