IBM Power Ideas Portal


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against IBM Power Systems products, including IBM i. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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    Restore integrated execution of sql

    with 9.8, you have to open your code separately in iACS RSS rather than just <F5> to execute the sql with RDi RSE
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Future consideration

    Export LPEX Outline View

    The content of the LPEX Outline view should be exportable. It would be a great basis for application documentation—even better if the context help for procedures/fields/constants would be included. JSON or XML would be fine maybe also a readable f...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Future consideration

    Change "Compare File" dialog to use a dialog like "Open Member in Editor" dialog at first

    When I click on the "Compare to a file" toolbar button, the prompt comes up with a list of connections, similar to that which appears when selecting to browse from the "Open Member in Editor" dialog. I'd like to see this come up at first with the ...
    over 7 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Future consideration

    RDi Allow Copy&Paste on member filter

    Allow a Copy & Paste on a member filter. Currently this only works on an object filter drilling down into the source physical file. Looking at a member filter there's only a Copy... no Paste. Use Case: Copy members within a filter view
    about 7 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 8 Future consideration

    Enhancements to the /etc/security/pscexpert/bin/findperms command

    Requesting the folloing additional functionaluty to the /etc/security/pscexpert/bin/findperms search: - Please provide an option to ignore NFS Filesystems - Option to list the filesystems to scan - Option to ingore a list of filesystems in the scan
    over 1 year ago in PowerSC 1 Planned for future release

    Display variable length for CLP variable in RDI (mouse hover)

    It will be usefull to have the field length (mouse hover) for CLP variable in RDI Use Case: you have to change a CLP program, you open it in RDI. You want to use a variable but you don't know the length. At this moment you have to go up to see the...
    over 7 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Future consideration

    Keyboard shortcut for Change Compile Defaults

    In PDM you have the option to use F18=Change defaults to be able to set the; - Object library - Batch processing options - Job descriptionWhich is fast and efficient.In RDi this requires; Navigate to ==> windows > Preference > Remote Syst...
    almost 6 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Future consideration

    Add Maximum Line Length as a preference in Free-form SQL Formatting

    The SQL Auto-formatter in Rational Developer formats long predicates with the end-of-line preference passed the savable source column length.The SQL Formatter within ACS Run SQL Scripts allows you to specify a maximum line length. This same prefer...
    almost 5 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Future consideration

    Add optional capability similar to Source->Format, to allow developer to sort declarations by type. Source->Sort Declarations.

    To improve programmer productivity and source readability. When reviewing programs, it would be helpful to be able to sort declarations into sequence by types, ie. DCL-C, DCL-DS, DCL-S, DCL-PI, DCL-PR would all be grouped together with like type v...
    over 2 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Future consideration

    Add "Open for Edit" shortcut in IBM Rational Developer for i

    When the developers browse source codes using IBM Rational Developer for i, they often open source members using mouse right-click option 'Browse With" as they do not want to lock the source member while browsing.When the developer decides to actu...
    over 3 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 6 Future consideration

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