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IBM i

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    Add the ability to change IFS journal inherit flag regardless of journal state

    When you set the inherit flag for a directory when starting journalling there is no way to remove that flag without ending journalling, starting journalling again without the flag set and then ending journalling again. You also cannot change the f...
    about 17 hours ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 0 Submitted

    Enable block nesting in Cobol source members (OPM as well as ILE)

    Ctrl-Shift-O (Show Block Nesting) and Ctrl-Shift-M (jump the cursor to the beginning or end of a code block) are very useful shortcuts when it comes to editing block statements (e.g. an IF/ELSE block) within RPG. Both shortcuts however do not work...
    about 21 hours ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 0 Submitted

    ACS Run SQL Scripts - Move Tab to New Window

    Sometimes I will have 2+ tabs open in a single Run SQL Scripts window, but then have a need to pull one out into its own window. Currently this is a manual process - Open a new window, open the desired SQL script or copy/paste the original tab's c...
    5 days ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 0 Submitted

    Include trial license with RDi 9.9

    Please add the temporary trial license to RDi 9.9. I had a fully licensed copy of RDi 9.8 (permanent licenses are handled by my client). I upgraded to 9.9, but because there is no license included, my RDi 9.9 is useless. Nothing works without the ...
    5 days ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 0 Submitted

    Allow MONMSG RMV(*YES)

    When running CL programs, the joblog contains a lot of messages that are not relevant to the process. For example consider this code snippet below which leaves message cpf9801 in the joblog. On the other hand, `monmsg cpf9801 exec(do) RMV(*YES)` w...
    6 days ago in IBM i / Application Development 0 Submitted

    Automate add or update of Certificate instead of manual process in DCM

    A new process is being implemented reducing the number of days a certificate will be valid. Apple, Google and others are already implementing this. https://www.digicert.com/blog/tls-certificate-lifetimes-will-officially-reduce-to-47-days In 2 week...
    7 days ago in IBM i / Security 1 Submitted

    Provide a fast way to list PRINTER FILE objects

    There is currently no scalable, programmatic interface dedicated to retrieving a list of printer files (*PRTF) on IBM i. To obtain a list of printer files today, applications must use any of these interfaces: DSPFD OUTPUT(*OUTFILE), QGYOLOBJ, QSYS...
    7 days ago in IBM i / Print 2 Submitted

    Improve BRMS Drive Allocation Logic for Multi‑Drive Tape Libraries

    When two BRMS control groups start at (or near) the same time and share the same tape library, both backup jobs may attempt to use the same drive. Even if multiple drives are available in the library, BRMS can assign only one drive to both jobs, c...
    7 days ago in IBM i / BRMS 0 Submitted

    Have the host in the APis response

    Hello,In RSEAPIs, you can connect to a host partition. Would it be possible to have at the start of jsons in response to operations the host on which the action took place : {"host": "localhost", ....} or {"host": "MyHost", ....} Depending on the ...
    7 days ago in IBM i / Web Serving 0 Submitted

    Provide an API that returns current override information for all session/job overrides

    The current API to retrieve an override information only returns the file to which a file label has been overridden. We need a way to determine (A) what files have been overridden and (B) what the override scope is for those files. Today the only ...
    10 days ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 3 Not under consideration

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