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    Teach "Refactor | Rename to use file ALIAS" about variable scoping

    I had occasion to use this refactor function today and it surprised me. I have used it before with much success. I had a file declared globally that contained a field FIELD1 (we'll say). I also had an externally described data structure in a sub-p...
    2 months ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Under review

    PowerVC Host / Virtual Machine / Storage / Volumes Complete Inventory

    This is help full for internal Auditing and tracking...
    8 months ago in PowerVC 4 Future consideration

    PowerVC support for Storage Virtualize Safeguarded Snapshots (SGC 2.0)

    As an IBM business partner we have several customers using an IBM SAN Volume Controller stretched-cluster configuration with PowerVC for Private Cloud.The customers are interested in a Safeguarded Copy cyber resiliency solution but it cannot be re...
    over 1 year ago in PowerVC 2 Future consideration

    From a SQLxxxLE source, a "SQL prompter" on SQL lines

    From a SQLxxxLE source, a "SQL prompter" on SQL lines as we can have in SEU with the F4 function key Use Case: Helpfull to code SQL statements
    over 14 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 9 Future consideration

    Add Compare/Merge API that ignores source sequence/dates

    Probably the single most requested RDi function that customers ask for is the ability to do compare/merge of source members without impacting existing source sequence/dates - we cannot provide this ability without help from Eclipse/IBM, to either ...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Future consideration

    Compliance - Data retention policy required for data and logs within powervc

    To comply with the data retention policy, we need to implement a mechanism within PowerVC that automatically removes older data and logs from both the tool and the underlying system.
    2 months ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    Collapse a section in RPG source.

    Like in JavaScript or HTML source editors, in RPG I would like collapse a subroutine, a subprocedure, an IF - ENDIF and so on by cliking on symbol "-". Use Case: Like SEU command X.
    about 10 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 8 Future consideration

    please add validation support for remote restart to hmc and pvc for future releases

    currently neither PVC nor HMC offer any kind of validation for remote restart. So there is no way to know in advance if a frame goes down, remote restart is working. We are asking for a validation feature either in PVC or in HMC to make sure that ...
    over 4 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    SR-IOV vNIC port redundany over multiple CECs in a E1080

    Today PowerVC creates SR-IOV vNIC backing devices based on the saturation of an adapter port. For redundant SR-IOV networks, PowerVC picks at least a separate adapter (not the same as for the primary SR-IOV network).In an E1080 system PowerVC shou...
    almost 4 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    Support for untagged vNICs in PowerVC

    PowerVC only supports tagged VLANs when using vNICs. If a VM has Port VLAN ID 0, which means untagged, the VM can't be managed by PowerVC. PowerVC should also be able to manage and deploy VMs with untagged vNICs.
    almost 5 years ago in PowerVC 0 Future consideration

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