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IBM i

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Group PTF apply date

Keeping IBM i up-to-date is becoming more and more important when you look at today's threads. (Just think of December 2021 and the log4j issue.)As a result of that reporting when an IBM LPAR was protected also becomes more and more important for ...
about 2 years ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 8 Future consideration

Bring back and improve Snippets in RDi

The Snippets view has been removed from RDi since version 9.8. Also the export, export for automatic distribution and import of Snippets was removed. Please bring back Snippets and improve them by adding "light scripting" or at least conditional c...
about 1 year ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Future consideration

Use checksums for testing files for changes.

Today RDi uses timestamps for testing local and remote members for changes. If the timestamps do not match, the Remote Reconciler assumes that a member was changed on the local or remote system. But of course that may not be true. For example, mem...
7 months ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Future consideration

SQL scalar functions SETENV and GETENV

SQL has many ways to store and retrieve configuration parameters. Tables, global variables etc. However when SQL is not the only part of the loop environment variables is mostly used else where for common configuration. So where SQL interact with ...
4 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Future consideration

Enhanced dynamic switch the collections for IWS REST-SQL services

The current IWS REST-SQL service does not support a multi-schema environment and cannot dynamically switch libraries (schemas, collections) referenced by SQL statements.
about 1 year ago in IBM i / Web Serving 2 Future consideration

Run command in Navigator for i

In the "old" System i Navigator it was possible to run a command on one/many systems or groups. It has become clear that the New Navigator for i is the way to go to manage the IBM i infrastructure. Therefore this request to be able to run a comman...
12 months ago in IBM i / System Management 2 Future consideration

UUID datatype for IBMi

A UUID is a Universally Unique Identifier, meaning that these identifiers are unique over your whole DB; even better unique" across space and time". UUID's are stored in 128bit format and follow a standarized format (rfc4122) This makes the type a...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 5 Future consideration

SQLRPGLE precompiler - allow usage of large VARCHARS by interpreting the same as SQLTYPE(CLOB)

Currently you cannot use large RPGLE VARCHARs (length >= 32705) in EXEC SQL statements. I suggest updating the SQL precompiler and SQL processing so that they can be. This would remove the need for defining SQLTYPE(CLOB) in new programs, VARCHA...
10 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Future consideration

Send message CPPEA55 to QSYSMSG.

The system generates message CPPEA55 when it detects a service processor battery failure, but it is not currently sent to message queue QSYSMSG. If it were sent, a user message handling program attached to QSYSMSG could monitor for this message an...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 0 Future consideration

Allow multiple Recipients in the send email function

Absolutely love that we now have send email, however the usability would grow if we could email multiple recipients. suggestion would be to have recipients septerated with a semi colon or comma.
8 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Future consideration

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