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IBM i

Always update current user in PSDS after profile swap.

Swapping user profiles [1] is a common technique for CGi programs and other service oriented programs to make sure the program runs under the right profile. This will change the CURRENT USER in the job. The CURRENT USER is reflected in the PSDS at...
about 5 hours ago in IBM i / Application Development Not under consideration

Add a new category under IBM Navigator for i, with the ability to plug in user-defined SQL for result sets and charts, similar to way system info is presented.

This idea would allow system admins to build up a list and provide useful site-specific, SQL inquiry/review capability for their users, via custom SQL queries. Whether these are configured in the IFS or some other place, is fine. But it should be ...
about 21 hours ago in IBM i / Web Serving Submitted

Allow Copy of Table Column into Run SQL Scripts Statement

I would like to be able to right click on a column heading and select "Copy Column Name to SQL". When building an SQL statement, I often don't remember the column names and will run a "select * from" to get all the columns. In some cases (look at ...
2 days ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family Submitted

Add Multiple Result Tabs to Run SQL Scripts

I often need to run multiple queries in different tables to analyze and compare results. For every query I run, the existing results are cleared and the new results are displayed. I would like the results to be retained until closed. I would sugge...
2 days ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family Submitted

CREATE VIEW without dependency

We have a need to create views that might span multiple schemas (aka. libraries) and if you create a view that does this, you cannot clear any of the libraries because of the dependency. My work around has been to create a user defined table funct...
4 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i Submitted

Add the Prestart Job Reuse count to the job data in Collection Services

QSYS2.Active_Job_Info returns the prestart job reuse count. However, to review this you must use DETAILED_INFO => 'ALL' and you can only get a real-time snapshot. I would like this metric added to the Collection Services job data so this can be...
9 days ago in IBM i / Performance Tools Submitted

"With" opcode for RPG nested data structures, like VB's "With...End With" statement.

Referencing deeply nested data structure variables is a chore in RPG and the RPG code becomes verbose. Visual Basic has a statement "With ... End With" that "Executes a series of statements that repeatedly refer to a single object or structure so ...
9 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG Submitted

SQL pre-compiler support for periods in file names

SQL pre-compiler fails for SQLRPGLE file names containing a period when compiling from the IFS and the SRCSTMT() parameter is specified. For example: ZC0160.1.SQLRPGLE fails ZC0160_1.SQLRPGLE works
9 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i Needs more information

Add the option to log the deletion of MTIs.

Recently I discovered that next to a plan being removed from the Plan Cache, there is another reason why an MTI can be deleted. There is a connection between a MTIs and a Plans in Plan Cache. so when a Plan is removed/pruned from the Plan Cache th...
9 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i Submitted

Adding the option to specify a Sender address to the command SNDSMTPEMM

For years now IBM i lacking a command to specify the sender mail address in a simple manner. Yes there is an API but this is too complicated for the average IBM i developer. Would it not be very convenient if the current SNDSMTPEMM is enhanced to ...
9 days ago in IBM i / Core OS Submitted

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