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IBM i

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Overlays/AFP added to ACS

Currently missing from ACS: the ability to manage/upload overlays. that functionality currently exists in system i navigator, but with the end of life coming on to system i navigator w/ windows 10, we need an easier way that the current (very manu...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / System Management 2 Delivered

Allow setup of SEP from Show View Menu in LPEX

While in LPEX session if one presses Ctrl+F10 you see a menu that allows for setting break points and other features. It would be nice to have an option there to populate the SEP dialog box before setting the SEP. Use Case: When in an LPEX session...
over 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Delivered

Dealloc not allowing fully qualified name

I am storing a pointer in a data-structure subfield, where this subfield is also an array. The DEALLOC opcode does not allow for a full qualified field name, only simple ones. Use Case: De-allocating pointers part of a data-structure subfield arra...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 4 Delivered

Migrating triggers when TGTRLS < N-2

Currently we can create triggers only with TGTRLS on N-2. For exemple if OS version is V7R1 we can use TGTRLS with V5R4, and when OS version is V7R3 we can use TGTRLS with V7R1.But when the table with trigger from a server V7R1 (with TGTRLS V5R4) ...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Delivered

Can you please add Job_type to Get_Job_Info?

Can you please add Job_type to Get_Job_Info? Use Case: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/1107217/1107217-6238504156156436481?midToken=AQE1P4HH_NHymA&trk=eml-b2_anet_digest_of_digests-group_discussions-24-discussion~subject&trkEmail=eml-b2_an...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Delivered

Better error details for iACS

The i Access Client Solutions product should give the user intelligible error messages. As is, it's giving useless error messages and IBM support has to review logs to determine the cause of the problem. Use Case: We were setting up a new PC. We t...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Delivered

Enhance CMPPFM command

We currently use the CMPPFM command to provide an initial "sanity check" that data is replicated via our software correctly. DB2 tables have used this without issue until we had a requirement to support BLOB column types where the CMPPFM command f...
about 8 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Delivered

add print output to 5250 session in ACS

Add print out put to 5250 session or a button that start print out put for the open session Use Case: to download a spool file you need to Select System and then open printer output. would like to be able to press a button on the tool bar that wil...
about 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Delivered

BRMS: Allow Parallel Backup in BRMS when using *ALLUSR

According to http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=nas8N1012281BRMS does not allow a parallel save when using *ALLUSR.I want to be able to do so. Use Case: We spread our saves among four drives in our library.Objects within a library are c...
about 8 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 4 Delivered

Change the RPG compiler to add an option like ALIGN(*FULL)

The C compiler pads out a struct so that its length is a multiple of its alignment. So if the struct contains a pointer, the length will be a multiple of 16. RPG does not do this, even with the ALIGN keyword, so the RPG data structure might be up ...
about 8 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 4 Delivered