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ON-EXIT could be colored differently

Syntax highlighting: The ON-EXIT opcode, while technically an opcode, could be more noticeable if it were colored like a "control flow opcode" instead of regular "opcode". Then it would look like the monitor/on-error/endmon and return opcodes inst...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 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

CLDOWNLOAD Plug-In SQL support for 'column AS header'

The SQL statement, in the CDDOWNLOAD plugin is enclosed between double quotes ("), restricting the use of the SELECT... AS... clause, to assign a different column header, limiting the scope of the statement. Use Case: Most of the time, when transf...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Delivered

PowerVC change storage connectivity group of existing lpar

PowerVC does not provide option for changing of storage connectivity group of existing lpar.In essence connectivity group is just mapping between virtual fiber channel and physical cards. In managed by HMC systems, this mapping can be changed even...
about 8 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

Add PIGZ to YUM repository for IBM i

Pigz is a parallel GZIP, so we can improve performance when compressing based on threads, CPUs or any quantity Use Case: With PIGZ we can improve gzip compression performance using parallelism.
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 1 Delivered

RSS Remember/reopen tabs

Hi, In addition to https://ibm-power-systems.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/IBMI-I-1576 (auto saving RSS tabs) it would be great if RSS remembered which tabs were open and would reopen them when restarting RSS. In addition, unnamed tabs should also be stored...
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 6 Delivered

Change Configure SSL for ADMIN (similar to ADMIN2)

Please change the functionality of the option similar to the "Configure SSL" of the ADMIN2 application server which allows to select a certificate from the *SYSTEM store. Use Case: The option "Configure SSL for ADMIN" requires a local certificate ...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 3 Delivered

Improve speed to retrieve number of objects in library

API qlirlibd with key 8 to retrieve the number of objects in the library performs really slow if you have more than say 5.000 objects in the library. Use Case: On a really fast system it can take 10-15 seconds to retrieve the number of objects in ...
about 7 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 6 Delivered

ACS APW print support

Printer session of IBM i Access Client Solutions does not support APW forms with bar codes and ruled lines. The client has many kinds of printers so they cannot use PDT or HPT. Therefore, the client requires the enhancement of Java printing servic...
about 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered

Optimization over SVC KSYS: Storage re-mapping process during "move dr_test=yes"

The way of handling actions on SVC by KSYS during DR Test is not correct/optimal. From the storage perspective, DR Test actions (move dr_test=yes) can be divided into the following stages, all on storage array running at BACKUP site: 1. Removal of...
over 5 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 2 Delivered

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