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Adding a hyperlink to comment source code when developing in Remote System Explorer in RDi.

We use Jira as our document control/status control/issue tracker. We also put this Jira number within our source code as a comment. It will be great if we can add a hyperlink to that Jira number, so when you click on this hyperlink it will take yo...
almost 3 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Delivered

Make Outline support compile-time expressions in keywords

The RDi outline does not recognize a compile-time expression within the data type definition. Example: varchar( %len( otherField ) ) Since the format of the example is supported by the compiler, I would like the RDi outline to also support it. Use...
over 9 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Delivered

DISKRXFER stats for NVMe disks

System: OS AIX Actor: Kapi bank We are trying to use NVMe disk on AIX.How ever there is no stats for DISKRXFER for nvme disks on AIX. So we unable to control and analize perfomance.
almost 6 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

IWS with Service Program conflicting PCML structs

I have a service program with multiple procedures. Two of the exported procedures have a parameter "REQUEST" that is like a template qualified data structure "T_REQUEST". "T_REQUEST" is not global. Each procedure has it's own version of "T_REQUEST...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 2 Delivered

Add parameter Start journaling to RSTLIBBRM

Add parameter Start journaling Yes or No to RSTLIBBRM Use Case: Opened PMR 26279,122,000 asking what command to use in a scheduled job to restore several user libraries from backups using BRMS to different libraries and the reply was to use RSTLIB...
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 7 Delivered

Ability to change the ownership of a message monitor set up through Navigator for i to my Group Profile or other USRPRF

Using IBM Navigator for i to set up message monitor on QSYSOPR message, when triggering a SNDDST command the command is issued as if the owner of the message monitor were sending it. I would like it to come from my group profile or another generic...
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / System Management 4 Delivered

We need Node.js version 8 for IBM i

Hello. We need Node.js version 8 for IBM i V7R2.Thanks. Use Case: for our bussines
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 2 Delivered

Show ssh arguments in process table

Please enable/show the arguments passed to ssh in a ps (process table) output. On AIX all openssh versions (except version 6.0.0.6204) do not show the arguments passed to the command in a ps (process table) output > lslpp -l openssh.base.client...
almost 6 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

Description column in Virtual Machines page

It would be really nice if you could add a column in the Virtual Machines pages, so we can see the description of the virtual machine. Maybe a generic column builder, so we are able to build our own pages.
almost 7 years ago in PowerVC 3 Delivered

Internal job id in program datastructure

We would like to have easy access to the unique internal job id via the program datastructure (as we have to jobName, jobUser, jobNo in pos. 244-269). As for now we have to use API QUSRJOBI to find the internal job id. Use Case: Our system stores ...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 4 Delivered

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