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Outline view not showing indicator (M) flag

The outline view does not display the modified flag (M) for the fixed format opcodes SETON and SETOFF. Use Case: Everyday while maintaing 3rd party source.
about 10 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Delivered

Add property to ACS to limit access to the IFS path

Add the ability to set the ifs location of that particular ACS configuration and dont allow the users to go up from the path they started with. This would be done in the ACS properties file.
over 2 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Delivered

Always make Run SQL Scripts available, not just when in SQLRPGLE source

Being able to access Run SQL Scripts in RDi is great. But it'd be better if I didn't have to open a SQLRPGLE source to do so. Use Case: I use SQL to query data quite a lot and it's not always related to when I work on SQLRPGLE source.
over 8 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Delivered

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...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Delivered

SYSDISKSTAT: Add percent busy

Disks are getting hammered on one system on rare occasion. IBM denies any culpability. Therefore I need way to know when to IPL system when the percent busy of the disks gets out of hand.Please add percent busy to sysdiskstat service Use Case: Mon...
about 4 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Delivered

ACS - clear keyboard buffer when showing RSS results

When the result of a SQL statement in Run SQL Script is shown, the keyboard buffer is not cleared and the result window will pickup the next keystroke in the buffer. This is very annoying when the next keystroke is F5 - especially when the SQL sta...
about 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 5 Delivered

Provide a means to discover NTP status

There are means to configure the HMC to sync to external NTP time servers, but there is no way to demonstrate that the HMC NTP configuration was actually successful. There are some NTP messages logged to /var/log/messages, but those logs are insuf...
over 7 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Delivered

Add Job Temporary Storage metric to Properties for top contributing jobs for Temporary Storage Utilization

Using Graph History to show Temporary Storage Utilization over time and discover consistent growth over time. Zoom in to see details and find the top contributors - a list of jobs is produced, and I can then click on a job to review its properties...
about 5 years ago in IBM i / Performance Tools 3 Delivered

Serverresponse is missing for systool functions like httpputclob

Serverresponse is missing for systool functions like httpputclob, httppostclob, etc.Even the httpputclobverbose function only returns the http header messages. But the responsemessage from the server that identifies the real problem will not be re...
about 5 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Delivered

IP adresses shall not be collected from client HMC

For security considerations, LPAR name and IP's adress shall not be collected from client HMC's. That's informations not needed on CMC and are very critical for client, only id of LPAR and frame name can be used.
over 1 year ago in Cloud Management Console 2 Delivered

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