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WebQuery SUM for duration of time

We have discussed in the forum how to make a sum for a duration of time. We heard that this is not possible in webquery now.A lot of people would need this functionality.So pleas provide the possibility to make a sum over a duration of time.you ca...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Db2 Web Query 10 Delivered

Increase QNTC Buffer size to 32768 from current 16384

I would like to see QNTC directory access be made available to 32768 shares, which is double the current 16384. This is due to a buffer limitation in the QNTC code. It would involve essentially doubling the size of the available buffer. Use Case: ...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 4 Delivered

ACS General Font Size

The opening screen of ACS when opening acsbundle.jar has a fixed font size. At times that is very small and I can barely read the screen. We need to be able to change the font size via the view menu for this and any of the ACS screens. Today only ...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 5 Delivered

Enhance strong typing specs

ILE and especially RPG should provide means to force strong typing to satisfy specific requirements. There is a medium urgency for parameters declared CONST, but, in my opinion, there is an urgent requirement for type checking regarding data struc...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 5 Delivered

Prompt for DBMonitor running when selected to delete.

ACS Database Monitors component.If a DBMonitor is running and I chose to delete it, it just smokes it.I'd like to to prompt me with a message, "Monitor is running, do you still want to delete it?" or something to that affect. Odds are, I don't wan...
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered

BRMS command to check for available Media in Tape Library

Request to supply a command to pre-check that the required media are available in the Tape Library before BRMS backup starts. Use Case: During night, BRMS jobs are running in the background to save parts of the system.In case no useful expired med...
almost 3 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 4 Delivered

Visual Explain Buttons for Actuals and Estimates

In ACS Visual Explain:It would be much easier/quicker if there were buttons up in the icon bar for all the View... menu options. ( or a way to pick and choose which ones I want in the icon bar besides the zoom in, out, or fit window).In my case, I...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 8 Delivered

Device driver with multiple receive queues for family of 10GB adaptersCCIN = 2CE3.

Customer uses Virtual IP on pair of 10Gb ETHERNET adapters EN15/EN16 (CCIN 2CE3) with only one port populated/active on each card. With huge traffic when number of frames increased above 147K frames/second driver fully takes one CPU and can not sc...
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / Networking 3 Delivered

BRMS Recovery Report update for directories

The Recovery Report Step020 has a known issue with it in regards to how the IFS is saved. Reference N1014174: How *LINK Saves Affect Link Lists . The recovery report should have the following added to step020: When using link lists in BRMS, users ...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 3 Delivered

Content Assist - Show Decimal Positions

When using content assist to see the definition of a numeric variable, it displays the numeric type (packed, int, etc) and the total length of the field, but does not tell you how many decimal positions it has. I would like it to display the decim...
over 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Delivered

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