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IBM i

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    Hope IBM i can have DB2 Order By COLLATION KEY BIT scalar function

    Customer need to Order By some DBCS Chinese field by Chinese stroke order. In open platform UDB DB2, can use COLLATION_KEY_BIT scalar function -- https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEPGG_9.7.0/com.ibm.db2.luw.sql.ref.doc/doc/r0050491.htm...
    over 6 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 4 Future consideration

    New function %lookupNE() to find the first element in an array not equal to the search argument

    Many times I have to locate the first non-blank or non-zero element in an array. To search for it I either have to code a for/endfor or dow/enddo loop to scan for it. Sorting it is not an option. The sequence must be kept. So often it is something...
    over 3 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 1 Future consideration

    Audit Issue - IBM Web Administration for i Permisssions Enhancement

    By default, only users or their groups with *ALLOBJ & *IOSYSCFG special authorities can manage and create Web related servers on the system through the use of IBM Web Administration for i. The Web related server include IBM HTTP Server, WebSph...
    over 6 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 1 Future consideration

    Add template for function prototypes/Procedure Interfaces

    Currently when defining a procedure prototype that references a procedure pointer, the prototype must be defined in scope with the pointer which causes issues for me in a highly modularized environment with service programs and sub-procedures. I f...
    almost 9 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 4 Future consideration

    What commands are linked to what special authority?

    I want to monitor what commands needing special authority are used by who.
    over 2 years ago in IBM i / Security 3 Future consideration

    add an option *bool for int parameters

    Please add an option to automatically convert ind values to int for prototyped C functions that expect a bool. This would allow for easier usage of C functions from RPG, just as the *string option for pointers does. An option to automatically conv...
    over 2 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 2 Future consideration

    DB2 SQL Query for rtbdskinf - prtdskinf

    Hi, we are working constantly on developing applications working with SQL queries on IBM iSeries. We had a number of requests from customers for more advanced monitoring and one thing that we are missing is integrating rtbdskinf - prtdskinf type o...
    over 3 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Future consideration

    Make Remote Journaling visible on the source too

    To my knowledge the remote journal config is only made visible in IBM i Access Client Solution Schemas on the target side by the added tab "Remote" on the journal Receiver.On the source side I have not yet found anything telling me that Remote jou...
    over 2 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Future consideration

    Automatic failover notification

    When ending the primary node in a 5250 session by default an automatic failover as documented here: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.5?topic=clusters-managing-failover-outage-events.There are ways to change this behavior, the Smart Assist Tool prov...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM i / PowerHA 1 Future consideration

    Please add the Java Modernization Tools for RPG and COBOL into RDI 9.8 like RDI 9.6 with the tools option.

    IBM Rational Developer for i RPG and COBOL + Modernization Tools, Java Edition V9.6 Core Multiplatform Multilingual eAssembly (CJ2JVML) comes with many tools for exposing IBM i backend business logic to web based application written in Java for th...
    11 months ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Future consideration

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