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Pipenv for IBM i

Pipenv is a tool that aims to bring the best of all packaging worlds (bundler, composer, npm, cargo, yarn, etc.) to the Python world. It merges pip (which you support) and virtualenv (which it seams you currently don't), together to work in unison...
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 4 Delivered

Run SQL Scripts formatter semicolon moves to commented line

When using the SQL formatter on a section ending with a semicolon and the last line before it is a comment, it moves the semicolon to the end of the comment. It did not do this in version prior to Version: 1.1.8.4. I normally place the semicolon a...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered

PEP 2.0 - Masking or translating the SystemName/LPAR name

To be able to use PEP 2.0 in security sensitive environments. It is necessary to mask or rename the SystemNames and the LPAR names. To review the collected data by the customer it is needed that the rename logic can be defined by the customer.
about 3 years ago in Cloud Management Console 1 Delivered

HMC not showing phys MAC adresses of SR-IOV shared network cards

In the latest releases of HMC it is not possible to list/show the phys mac adresses of network cards that are SR-IOV capable and in shared mode.
over 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Delivered

PDF Print Support In IBM/I

PDF has become the new standard for output for documents being stored in document management systems. It would be nice for IBM/I to be able to push print directly out to printers like it does with PCL. Use Case: PDF has become a big standard in to...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Print 3 Delivered

Support UTF-8 source code in SQLC precompiler

The introduction of PTF SI62604 (which gives CRTRPGMOD the 'TGTCCSID' keyword and so allows RPG and SQLRPG modules to be compiled from Unicode stream files) now allows users to convert their source code to UTF-8 and store them as stream files in t...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 4 Delivered

Open NetServer in IBM Navigator for i

IBM Navigator for i doesn't have the option to open the NetServer. System i Navigator (iNav) has this, but end of life has been announced for that tool. In iNav, the right-click popup menu for NetServer has an option for "Open i5/OS NetServer", bu...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / System Management 4 Delivered

Please add comment ability into SQL views.

Working with a mix of tables, views, physical, logical files, etc. there is a huge need to store comments in views that are built over physical files. This probably should be added to other SQL type. Recently, at year end I had to change views and...
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 4 Delivered

keep ACS splash screen up until emulator window appears.

Keep a splash screen open while loading ACS. Do not remove the splash screen until the emulation session if fully active. The windows client has this. Use Case: users tend to click on the icon repeatedly if application does not load in 1 or 2 seco...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered

Content Assist - See the Value of a Constant

Content Assist gives the definition of a field, but does not work on constants. It would be nice to have content assist show the value of a constant. Use Case: There are times when knowing the value of a Constant is helpful, and when I need to kno...
over 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 8 Delivered

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