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RDI: Indicators in column 71-76 are shown referenced but not modified in outline

In the outline in RDI indicators in column 71 to 76 are shown as referenced instead of modified. This makes it dificult to see where an indicator is changed. Use Case: For example the indicators 65, 16 and 75 are in colunm 71 to 76 c seton 65C Fie...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Delivered

IBM i Access for Windows ODBC driver has dependency on C++ 2005 library

NB - Don't know if product is right as this should refer to"IBM i Access for Windows ODBC driver "and I couldn't find it in the list and couldn't move on without having something in the list! Microsoft have indicated that they have withdrawn suppo...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered

Provide for PDF Report on Code Coverage Usage captures

Request to be able to create a PDF report to support an individual Code Usage capture along with supporting the Merge of multiple Code Usage captures for reporting. The files we need to report on are created via the iSeries CODECOV command which c...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Delivered

HMC CLI Restore command to compliment the BKCONSDATA

There is no equivalent CLI command to Restore Critical Console Data that would complement the BKCONSDATA command.
almost 7 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Delivered

The outline view for Cobol program is not detailed

The outline view for Cobol programs on IBMi is poor and not as detaild as the Outline for RPG source member or even for Cobol for AIX programs. Use Case: Provide the same view which is already present on the Development Cobol for AIX, or something...
over 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 6 Delivered

PowerVP - Add virtual IP support for mover partitions

Currently PowerVC only supports SEAs and backing devices for MSPs. We would need the HMC team to provide VEA IPs in REST responses in order to validate the user specified IPs (from conf).
almost 7 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

Do not show RPGLE hover info that simply parrots the actual line without additional info

The new hover function in the RPGLE editor tries to always show something.Sometimes that info is simply a repeat of the line (or part of line) under the mouse and adds no other information.This is distracting and mask part of the next line.For ins...
about 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Delivered

VM and captued Image editable comment field

Add to VM and Image a comment field that can be used at creation time and edited later.If it needs to be fixed length it needs to be generous, something like 256 or or 512 bytes.
over 10 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

PowerHA manage/unmanage - add an option to not run startup scripts on manage

We have a lot of PowerHA clusters - but many do not have application server monitoring configured, and many are old and we do not want to retrofit to configure them. Due to this, we cannot use the manage/unmanage functionality, as it will run the ...
about 5 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 2 Delivered

It is not possible to set SA idle timeout.

It is not possible to set SA idle timeout. There is no way to clear out SA if other peer not responding or gone without tearing down SA.
about 5 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered