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IBM i

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Add information indicating that the session is open with ACS

Many companies are slowly converting video sessions from Client Access to ACS. In order to monitor the progress of these upgrades it would be useful to have an SQL service that lists the video devices, which also reports a field indicating that th...
4 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

for the CLDownload option in ACS add option for downloading to a HTML table

with the ability to use the CLDOWNLOAD in ACS from a SQL UDTF SYSTOOLS.GENERATE_SPREADSHEET on the IBM i it makes sense to extend the output options to include HTML output. it could be used for simple "in-house" data presentation. the SQL UDTF wou...
11 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

Terminate long running tasks on end requests

In order to terminate a program gracefully during an end request (ex. ENDJOB, ENDSBS, ...) the job end status can be checked (ex. RTVJOBA ENDSTS in CL or %ShtDn in RPG) and acted accordingly. The problem is however that when a job is executing lon...
11 months ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 4 Future consideration

Provide an SQL service to retrieve same data as DSPFFD command to OUTFILE for non-db2 objects such as DSPF, DDM, etc

When writing applications that utilize DSPFFD information, today you must code the command. An SQL service could provide flexibility and granularity to access this data for specific objects, similar to SYSCOLUMNS or OBJECT_STATISTICS.
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Future consideration

Change ENDTCPSVR from *ALL to *NONE

The default for the ENDTCPSVR command is *ALL, this means if type the command and press enter, it will effectively take an IBM i LPAR offline without any further action.
about 2 years ago in IBM i / Networking 6 Future consideration

Enhance Output Queue Library Filtering on QGYOLSPL to support *ALLUSR and *ALL options

The QGYOLSPL is great for obtaining a list of SPOOLED files. However the output queue filtering option is limited to a specific library name or two symbolic names *CURLIB and *LIBL. The issue comes up if an output queue is in a "private" library t...
11 months ago in IBM i / Print 1 Future consideration

Add possibility to run an Excel macro from SYSTOOLS.GENERATE_SPREADSHEET

It would be convenient having the possibility to automatically run an Excel macro on a worksheet created by SYSTOOLS.GENERATE_SPREADSHEET. For instance to generate a chart based on the Excel data created.
4 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Not under consideration

IBMi AJS 7.5 is linked to previous 7.2 instead of current 7.5

I have updated my comments to the URL but as there were no response or changes I created this support. https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/ibm-advanced-job-scheduler-ihttps://www.ibm.com/docs/en/ssw_ibm_i_75/pdf/rzasnadjspdf.pdfthis URL is linked to...
4 months ago in IBM i / Documentation 1 Submitted

In the run sql scripts window, save the open tabs so that they can be reopened automatically.

In the run sql scripts window, several tabs are often open. When you're working on them for several days in a row, it's tedious to have to reopen them each time you start the window.It would be very useful to be able to indicate whether or not you...
7 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Submitted

Add command "dialog" to PASE

Please, port "dialog" command to PASE, so we can create powerful menues for OSS applications, scripts, etc. Use Case: We have created a PoC with ANSI menues to backup IBM i to IBM Cloud Object Storage easily, but it's complex to use for the averag...
about 3 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 2 Future consideration

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