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Consolidated Project View

System: Rational Developer for Power Systems ProjectActor: User needing new feature The iProject view is commonly used for development of RPG applications. Many applications have a variety of architectures that are required for development, many w...
over 10 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 8 Delivered

Have PowerSC send SNMP traps on a customizable port

Have PowerSC send SNMP traps on a customizable port, default 162. This could be as easy as having a port number in the config file rather than querying the remote system to reply with a port.
about 7 years ago in PowerSC 1 Delivered

Report formats (details / summary) for single compliance scan

Reports generated after compliance scan - Currently we have mail1,mail2,mail3,mail4 -> mapped to single alert style(either 0,1,2)we want like mail1,mail3 -> alert style 1mail2,mail4 -> alert style 3This can help avoiding multiple scan run...
over 3 years ago in PowerSC 2 Delivered

Removal of Profile from Agent

Question : If a profile is deleted on PowerSC server but it is still showing greyed out some times.Response from IBM - PowerSC does not automatically “push” deletion of a profile to every endpoint. For example, you create customProfile1 and push i...
over 3 years ago in PowerSC 2 Delivered

alt_rootvg_op export flag (-X) should sleep the volume group first automatically.

alt_rootvg_op export flag (-X) should sleep the volume group first automatically. Failure to do so causes severe damage to the alternate. The same rationale was used to create IV89318, in which failure to sleep before rebooting would similarly des...
over 7 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

Provide a means to Enable DNS from the HMC CLI

NTP can be both configured and enabled from the HMC CLI.To Configure NTP, use these commands:chhmc -c xntp -s add -a 172.21.128.95 -i eth0To Enable NTP, use this command:chhmc -c xntp -s enable To configure DNS, I can use this command:chhmc -c net...
over 7 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Delivered

RSE "Filter Strings" Dialog Usability

This dialog must be one of the strangest and most incomprehensible Windows dialogs in any Windows application anywhere. I am always puzzled by: 1. The flow of control: How the buttons and dropdowns work, how they're related to one another, in what...
about 11 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Delivered

Make background IBM i search not interfere with opening member, running commands, debugging

Running of IBM i searches can now be done in background which does not block the UI and we can now edit an already opend member. However, the search uses the same communication channel as is used to run commands, open members, expand items in RSE,...
over 11 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Delivered

Update version of ISC BIND used for AIX

IBM's present/default version of BIND for AIX is v9.4,...which is considered by vulnerability scanning tool Qualys as being EOL/Obsolete. Indeed the latest version of BIND is v9.11. Although IBM AIX support has confirmed that they are still fully ...
over 7 years ago in AIX 3 Delivered

Allow changing color of block nesting arrows

We have some developpers that change the Lpex editor colors to have a black background which they find less hard on the eyes. The show block nesting action (ctrl-shift-o) uses dark blue arrows to show the nesting of if / do / for, etc. That color ...
over 11 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Delivered

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