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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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Action openRPGDeclaration (f3) should work with variables as well

Currently the openRPGDeclaration (shortcut F3) only works for Procedures and subroutines. It should also work for other declarations such as variables and structures (and maybe files). Use Case: When working in the code I notice that I should make...
over 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 9 Delivered

Display last spool file for User actions

In PDM we have user actions that use DSP commands to get some information on a object, such as DSPFD, DSPFFD, etc. Some of these have equivalents in RD Power but others do not.One way to support them all would be to add an option in a user action ...
over 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 6 Delivered

Define Fields - Cannot Successfully Edit & Save

We need the ability to edit a define field and include within it a new define field just created. However, it doesn't work because the new define field is not sequentially above the define field being edited within the text editor source. The prog...
about 8 years ago in IBM i / Db2 Web Query 1 Delivered

Update to BRMS - Work with Items to Omit from Backup - Granular Exclusions

Once we upgraded to V7R1, I experienced an issue where I would receive the following errors in the BRMS log (detailed in the PMR): CPF3761 20 Cannot use *USRSPC QGLDLOCK in QUSRDIRDB. I cannot easily exclude this... and my only recourse is to excl...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 1 Delivered

Remote copies

PowerVC is currently unaware of remote copies on our IBM V7000 storage systems.This breaks deleting LPAR and resizing disks, deleting disks.
over 5 years ago in PowerVC 3 Delivered

PowerHA add delay option to startup

When starting the whole cluster the Nodes are processed in sequence.This creates problems when RGs have start after dependencies, are located on different Primary nodes.A detailed problem description got already sent to Ravi Shankar.
over 8 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 2 Delivered

add information from WRKMLMBRM to BRMS SQL Services

can use information from Tape Library in SQL f.e. query for media which are *EJECT in BRMS but still in library
almost 3 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 1 Delivered

Creating a bootable USB stick for IBMi is no longer possible under Windows 10 and 11.

Since the latest Windows updates it is no longer possible to use UDF images for example B_Group1_.... to a bootable for IBMi (I-BASE...) USB stick. The new system program PARTMGR.SYS must be replaced with an older version to make it work again. Pl...
almost 3 years ago in IBM i / Install and Upgrade and Licensing 1 Delivered

Minimum character password length for padmin

Need to change the padmin password length to minimum 15 character as per the new ITSS security password policy. Need to set it at the VIO operating system level.
over 5 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 3 Delivered

IBM RDi 9.5 RPG, Cobol Provide RSE port number parameter in eclipse.ini

Rational Developer for i 9.5 (SP2) is installed in a Citrix environment. We noticed that occasionally developers encounter a TCP port collision for Rational Developer (Remote Systems Explorer) or RSE component. Error message RSEC2201:E is issued w...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Delivered