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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    RDI support for current MAC OS

    Installation Manager is not signed to run on Mac OS Big Sur and Mac OS Monterey versions Use Case: Install RDI products on new Mac Computers. Update existing installations where the Operating System has been upgraded.
    about 4 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Future consideration

    Use checksums for testing files for changes.

    Today RDi uses timestamps for testing local and remote members for changes. If the timestamps do not match, the Remote Reconciler assumes that a member was changed on the local or remote system. But of course that may not be true. For example, mem...
    about 2 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Future consideration

    Usage of Enumeration in "Outline"-View

    When we declare fields, files, enumerations etc. we can see them in our Outline-view and click on them to jump to their declaration in the code.With normal fields, files etc. we also get the references which indicate in which line they are used an...
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Future consideration

    Auto refresh Service Entry Points in RDi

    When setting a Service Entry Point in RDi, every time you re-compile the program the SEP must be refreshed. It's easy to forget to do so, and then you need to stop the program you are trying to debug. It would be good if RDi would just auto refres...
    almost 7 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Future consideration

    IBM PowerSC should provide an option to mark a failed compliance rule as exception in the GUI

    The IBM PowerSC Compliance Automation feature allows users to run compliance check. Once the check is complete, the GUI shows the result and displays the failed rules. If at least 1 rule has failed then the compliance status of the LPAR is shown a...
    over 1 year ago in PowerSC 2 Planned for future release

    Add .ignore file to i Project

    Add a .ignore file (similar to the Git .gitignore file or the svn:ignore property) so that the developer can specify files or members that must be ignored by the Remote Reconciler. That would be very useful if a developer stores multiple i Project...
    about 2 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Future consideration

    Do not change the date field in date area if only change for a source line is a "white space" change.

    Do not change the date field in date area if only change for a source line is a "white space" change.Or a setting where you can control the date field in date area being updated on a source line "White space only" change. An example of this is RPG...
    about 10 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 8 Future consideration

    PowerSC Patch Management feature should also manage HIPER ifixes

    The PowerSC Patch Management is an excellent feature to manage security ifixes. There are few customers who want PowerSC to also manage HIPER ifixes. Currently PowerSC only download security ifixes. It would be nice if PowerSC can also download an...
    over 1 year ago in PowerSC 3 Planned for future release

    ILE Build Tools for RDi

    I really like the idea of an IDE. It should do all the keeping track ofthings for me. It should help me with my builds, it should make debugging easier for me, and RDI does a lot of that very nicely. But one place where it falls short is in helpin...
    over 11 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 11 Future consideration

    Change french translation for "Add service entry point"

    The french translation for "Add service entry point" is not correct. Actually the translation is "Supprimer le point d'entrée de service", that means "Delete service entry point". During training it's complicated to explain that to add a service e...
    6 months ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Not under consideration

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