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IBM i

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CGI PDI Enable History Performance Reports PDF

Inavigator PDI Performance Data Investigator.Create Report of History Performance data , and preferably to be able to schedule them. Use Case: PM400 is End Of Support by IBM , There is an high demand from our IBM i customers to have similar monthl...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / Performance Tools 7 Future consideration

GENERATED_SPREADSHEET with kerberos and password *NONE

In an evironments with kerberos and users with password *NONE the scalar funcion doesn't work (MSGSY0271), it would be great if this limitation didn`t exist.
7 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Future consideration

Add Command and Package Definitions to the new Navigator for i (iACS)

After migrating to the newer IBM i ACS environment, Management Central system function is missing from IBM Navigator for i!!! The Management Central of old Client Access iNavigator, provided the ability to simultaneously perform systems management...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / System Management 3 Future consideration

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...
4 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 1 Future consideration

keep alive or timeout within the LPR/LPD process to the IBM i for remote output queues to recover without having to end and restart the writer.

IBM i was sending data to the printer. The connection was dropped and both the IBM i and printer are waiting indefinitely for a response from the other side." the current design of LPR/LPD on IBM i does not have a keep alive or timeout setting. Th...
8 months ago in IBM i / Print 1 Future consideration

DSPPGMREF with SQL

In SQL Services create a view or UDF, who have the same information as the CL command DSPPGMREF Use Case: get the list of programs that use a file ...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 7 Future consideration

please update ICU libraries

Please update ICU libraries on the machine. They are simply too old. Looking into QICU library there are ten years ago versions. By the way, the ICU project is maintained by IBM itself. ICU is published and enlisted in the public API of the system...
about 1 year ago in IBM i / Core OS 5 Future consideration

RPG - Conditional (Ternary) Operator (?:) in EVAL operation

I'd like to be able to use conditional assignment (?:) in EVAL and EVALR operation in RPG. C, C#, java and many other languages have a conditional (aka ternary) operator. This allows developers to make very terse choices between two values based o...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 17 Future consideration

Rdi Debug Step Over enhancement - Exec SQL statements

Currently when debugging RPG code with RDi in *SOURCE view, Step Into and Step Over will have to be pressed an unknown number of times to clear a single Exec SQL Statement. This is because the SQL Precompiler replaces Exec SQL Statements with mult...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 7 Future consideration

Add TLS support for SNDDSTJS

Add TLS 1.3 support for SNDDSTJS to connect to a remote mail router without authentication. Advanced job scheduler notification properties does not have the option to enable TLS. TLS is required by some companies including financial intuitions.
10 months ago in IBM i / System Management 2 Future consideration