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Add Support to See List of Returned HTTP Headers

The Transport C APIs of the integrated web services client currently allow a program to retrieve the status code, response data, and individual HTTP header values from a web service response. Unfortunately, there is no way today to determine which...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 2 Delivered

Add parameter to RSTOBJ command

In the RSTOBJ command parameters it would be great to let you filter by attribute as well (FILEATR), in case you select *FILE would also specify the type (*PF, *LF, *PRTF, *DSPF, etc.) OBJTYPE > *FILE FILEATR > *PF Use Case: We usually have ...
about 8 years ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 3 Delivered

Enhance the System Limits Alerting Cadence (SQL7062) to be customizable and more frequent than once per day

The system limits alerting is very useful to notify system administrators of potentially severe issues. However, the alert message is only sent once per day, when collection services is cycled; which is typically at midnight. Cycling Collection Se...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Delivered

Do not ask about clearing results when closing "Run SQL Scripts" window

In earlier versions of i Access Client Solutions I didn't get that checkbox, asking whether the results may be cleared, when closing a "Run SQL Scripts" window. Don't know what this should be good for. It's enough being asked to save the script. P...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered

Add 7.4 support to the list of PTF's

Add 7.4 to document N1021943 athttps://www.ibm.com/support/pages/access-ptf-cover-letters Use Case: service and support
over 5 years ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 1 Delivered

Multiple conditions on a breakpoint on RPG/COBOL programs

As we can do with C programs Use Case: To debug quickly
over 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Delivered

Expand a *BNDDIR object to see the entries

In RSE, the ability to expand a *BNDDIR object to see the entries (*SRVPGM and *MODULE objects) and/or a "Show in table" option Use Case: Without that we have to use the WRKBNDDIRE command on a 5250 screen
over 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Delivered

Support for bcrypt - password hashing

In order to create password hashes we need the bcrypt algorithm which is currently not supported by the Qc3EncryptData API. Alternatives like SHA-512 are not suited for password hashing. We would like this API (or a new one, or a callable C-functi...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / Security 8 Delivered

Access Client Solutions - Hot spot - no message when file not found

If you have a screen with a hotspot and the file does not exist then you don't get a message that the file does not exist. For example then you click on the hotspot:FILE://myServer/drawing.pdf and drawing.pdf does not exist on myServer you are not...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered

Centralized Location for cacert file for IBM ACS

IBM Access Client Solutions Currently, everytime a new Certificate Authority used on the IBM i, Users get a Pop-up asking to Accept the CA. To ease confusion, it would be nice to have a similar capability as in IBM System i Access where the Certif...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered

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