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IBM i

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ACS and Phone Calls via Teams

The ability to call a stored phone number in a PF via MS Teams from a 5250 Screen with a mouse click. Like E-Mail Addresses or Webpages. Use Case: Many customers has tables in the DB PF with their customer address data, like name, street, town, E-...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

Create in new Navigator for i same functionality that Heritage Navigator for i with DNS configuration.

Heritage Navigator for i has a lot of options of DNS configuration. But new Navigator for i has not DNS configurations options.
12 months ago in IBM i / System Management 1 Not under consideration

Add properties to New Navigator > TCP/IP Servers

Under the old nav, if you right clicked on a TCP/IP server you got the option to start/stop, server jobs and view the properties for that particular server. Today we have those options but no properties. We will need that moved over before the old...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / System Management 8 Future consideration

Please add a prompt to run the setup functions again. (Resubmitted)

Please see the idea I created before with the same title. The functionality needed as you say is already in the system. I disagree. Control is available but is totally in the hands of the PC and network folk. They are not responsible for the secur...
8 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Not under consideration

Support wide SQL sources on **FREE

Support more than 80 columns for embedded SQL in RPG with **FREE Use Case: Support of the wider sources allows more easily to write complexer SQL statements instead of splitting over many lines.
over 6 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 8 Not under consideration

Text highlighting in ACS 5250 Emulator

It would be great to have an option in ACS to highlight a specific string if it appears anywhere on the screen. Something like CTRL-F (find) feature in Chrome. Use Case: When scrolling through many screens of data in the ACS 5250 emulator and look...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Not under consideration

Support *PRVPGM for TOPGMQ Parameter of QMHSNDPM API

The lack of the ability to use QMHSNDPM to "know" that a message is being directed to the previous program (like the OPM version) when sending to ILE objects in the call stack is frustrating. Today we have to play with the *CTLBDY and the Relative...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 2 Not under consideration

PDF/A support for infoprint / *PSFCFG objects / PDF generation

Nowadays, given recent announcements with 7.5, IBMi base OS license does include Infoprint server and its suite of programs for PDF generation (PDF virtual printers etc.). So PDF generation is now considered a base capability offered by the OS. De...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Print 3 Future consideration

Alter table without exclusive lock

Provide possibility to alter table add column without exclusive lock on the table to enable 24x7 deployment with zero downtime for real-time applications. Possible solution can be done in a same way as online DDL in innodb. (https://dev.mysql.com/...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Not under consideration

Add CCSID to QUSROBJD

The CCSID for an Object is not returned in any of the QUSROBJD formats. It should be. It should also be included in the OBJECT_STATISTICS UDTF. Use Case: Trying to determine what files on my system are NOT setup with CCSID(37). Attempted to use OB...
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 3 Future consideration