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Allow Expanding or Collapsing Code Sections

Rational Developer for IBM i provides the ability to find the beginning and ending of conditional statements by using Ctl-M (Highlights the entire section of code) or Ctl-Shft-M (Toggle from the start to the end of the section of code). It would b...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Not under consideration

Preference to not update ILE RPG model on every keystroke

Add a preference to only update the ILE RPG model that drives the outline view, hovers, etc when the Refresh action is done (or when the cursor leaves the line) and not on every keystroke. Use Case: I am editing a large ILE RPG member and I don't ...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Future consideration

Remove SEU product offering

With the availability of numerous modern development platforms, SEU should be removed from the next release of IBM i. This would help facilitate the acceptance of modern practices and tooling.
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 7 Future consideration

Security enhancement: log the source IP for success and failed login

We are sending hmc syslog to our log management server, and here is what we noticed: Unlike version 7 of the HMC, V10 does not log the IP in all cases, here is an example: Login result + Method = IP recorded (Yes or No) 1- Success Login + Using...
over 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

Expose the REGEXP_LIKE SQL UDTF's EXTERNAL NAME as a System API

The C runtime regcomp/regexec functions are from last century and do not support anything introduced in regex since 1997. The SQL Function REGEXP_LIKE however does support contemporary features of regex, such as Word boundary that are lacking from...
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 5 Future consideration

ENUM construct an function

ENUM Similarly to java and other languages an enum construct may be useful to rpg programmer. It involves declaring key-value pairs and an instruction to find the value corresponding to the key provided e.g.: declare the enumeration name (enumerat...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 1 Not under consideration

2k, 4k and 8k key size in Qc3GenDHParms API

Maximum key size in Qc3GenDHParms API is 1024. We are software editor and our file transfer software is only based on IBM cryptographic services API.I need to create 2k, 4k and 8k keys as asked by some modern SFTP server. Use Case: An SFTP client ...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Security 3 Future consideration

Schedule operations on command line for profile-data backup in HMC

Not only HMC and VIO backup, but also managed systems profile backup is needed on schedule operations. And it is better to manage the schedule operations on command line.
over 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Planned for future release

%CHAR(numeric) Should Also Support Non-Constant Precision and Scale Parms

Currently, %DEC and %DECH don't support non-constant precision and scale parms. If that is to remain as is, then it would be *very* helpful if at least %CHAR(numeric) would not only support precision and scale parms, but would also support them as...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 2 Not under consideration

More Recent Version of PDF

5722IP1 (V5R3) with an IBM i V7R3 is using an old version of PDF = 1.4 (Acrobat 5.x). Use Case: The produced PDF document are uploaded for a e-signature process and the PDF created are too heavy with this version which generates frequent incidents.
about 5 years ago in IBM i / Print 5 Future consideration

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