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Split DBOpen exit point in new format

DBOpen Exit Point takes care of ANY database access, regardless what type. This results in performance problems. Severals performance tests show that from 100% DBOpen Acess apx. 95%-99% are coming from Native I/Os. This is from exit point technolo...
3 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Future consideration

Enable Virtual Serial Number (VSN) for Shared Processor Pool (SPP)

As currently defined, a Virtual Serial Number (VSN) can only be used once for a single LPAR, with cores fully assigned. This approach significantly limits flexibility. For example, consider a scenario with three LPARs, each assigned 0.4 cores. The...
4 months ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 0 Submitted

RSE API's - swagger or yaml file

Hello, Would it be possible to have the swagger or a yaml file available? This would facilitate the integration of calls to these APIs in external software capable of scripting and automating certain tasks.
6 months ago in IBM i / Web Serving 1 Functionality already exists

Add a way to associate a Binding Directory with a Subprocedure Prototype

When using /INCLUDE to pull in Prototypes, RPG developers also have to remember to specify the BNDDIR or BNDSRVPGM keyword on the CTL-OPT spec in order to include the related component that contains the procedure. This request would enable the dev...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 0 Submitted

Relax requirements for using Ds in I/O

The general problem is about the compiler issuing a RNF7595 when I try to use the same Ds (or Likerec Ds) on diffent files sharing the same format and based on the same PF. This is an example: Dcl-f fileA01L keyed usage(*input); Dcl-f fileA02L key...
3 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 6 Future consideration

Addition of Journal Code/Entry type description table

I'd like to suggest adding a table to QSYS2 with the contents of the help text for Journal Codes and Journal Entry Types. If we were to combine this table with DISPLAY_JOURNAL it would provide a greater amount of context to queries against journals.
3 months ago in IBM i / Other 1 Submitted

RPG: Do not send RNF7031 (variable not referenced) for fields in template ds

For data consistency we use our reference file to define internal fields like so: dcl-ds omsref ext template end-ds ; dcl-s myObject like ( objc ); The reference file contains a boatload of fields. Because we do not use the majority of these field...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 0 Submitted

Possibility to create IFS objects filters

Because many sources for IBM objects e.g programs, commands can be stored in IFS directories, it would be good to have possibility to define IFS directories and files filters like ones available for objects.
8 months ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Future consideration

Improve implementation of Geospatial Data Types

Two parts to this based on observations to date. 1) Currently the supported Geospatial data types, as referenced in QSYS2.SYSTYPES, are based upon BLOB column types. However, you cannot specify the size of the column like you can with BLOB columns...
29 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Not under consideration

change *ALLOBJ authority needed to drop columns using the ACS schemas editing interface

When you change a table (drop a column) through the ACS grapical interface you need *ALLOBJ to do so.The reason is that ACS adds and removes an autoreply (needing *ALLOBJ) to handle the inquiry message to confirm the drop (data loss) CPA32B2.When ...
7 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Future consideration

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