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Improve support in PDI Job Watcher for Jobs that do not use CPU during the interval

By design, the Job Watcher performance data collector does not collect data on jobs that do not use CPU during the interval. Jobs that are blocked by waits such as a database record lock or an object lock are often in a long wait and do not use CP...
3 months ago in IBM i / Performance Tools 0 Submitted

Improve the performance of PDI Job Watcher Interval Details

When investigating Job Watcher data, Interval Details allows you to get to call stacks and SQL statements. However, it takes a very long time for interval details to display - upwards of a minute or more; it is so slow as to be nearly unusable. Th...
3 months ago in IBM i / Performance Tools 0 Submitted

Enhance PDI to have the option to open drill-downs in new tab

In New Navigator, the Performance Data Investigator supports opening the initial chart in a new tab. However, all drill downs taken on that chart open in the same tab. This is problematic for the following reasons: I often need to look at mulitple...
3 months ago in IBM i / Performance Tools 1 Future consideration

In the run sql scripts window, save the open tabs so that they can be reopened automatically.

In the run sql scripts window, several tabs are often open. When you're working on them for several days in a row, it's tedious to have to reopen them each time you start the window.It would be very useful to be able to indicate whether or not you...
7 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Submitted

Be able to tell which host is IBM ACS 5250 is running on

The STRPCCMD allows commands to be run on the underlying OS (Windows or Linux) from a 5250 session. As Linux is now supported by ACS it has become important to know which OS the user is using, especially in a mixed environment. It would be good to...
about 1 year ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 0 Not under consideration

IBM i Server exit points

I use the IBM Server exit points to allow/deny and secure functions and access to my Power i LPARs. Use Case: It would be great the be able to get the IP address of the requester passed along in all of the exits. It is available in some of them li...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / Security 7 Not under consideration

In SQL JSON_TABLE, add an option on timestamp columns to take into account or not the timezone offset

In the SQL function JSON_TABLE, when a timestamp value indicated with a time zone offset (e.g.: "yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ss.nnnnnn<+/-Offset>") is retrieved to produce a timestamp column, the resulting value is always an UTC value (by adding or sub...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Future consideration

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
7 months ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Future consideration

Remember the last pad the user was on when the popup keypad was last closed

I categorize my macros on the popup keypad by pad. It would be handy to be able to set an option to retain the last used pad. So, the next time I open the popup keypad and the previous time I had it open I ran a macro on pad 2 for instance, it wou...
7 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Functionality already exists

Add the possibility to define user-variables for templates (e.g. User-Name, Department, aso) as it is possible for Snippets!

We are using snippets for creating new source-members. We want to replace them by templates. If we can define our own variables for the instance of RDi, we can automate the creation of source-members. We think that would be helpfull for a lot of c...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Future consideration

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