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IPx commands in LPEX

IPx commands in LPEX to display source prompter with the right line type, like in SEU (IPH, IPF, IPC, IPCX...) Use Case: Usefull when creating new source members
over 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Delivered

Search/Replace (Ctrl+F) Enhancement

Highlighting a section of code and then hitting Ctrl+F would cause the highlighted text to be placed into the Find text box as a new search. Use Case: Ctrl-F causes Find/Replace to be displayed, but with the previous search in the Find text box. T...
over 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 8 Delivered

PowerHA leaves *SYSBAS unknow

The biggest failure I have seen with PowerHa Switch or Fail over has been objects created in *SYSBAS. Most logical replication products have a tool to audit what is not being replicated. It would be great if PowerHA have an Audit tool to Compare a...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / PowerHA 4 Delivered

If ROHA takes CPU from another machine in EP, it returns it to EP as available, not to machine

We have two machines in EP and about 80 lpars on each (not all of them have PowerHA). In case of big RG fallover it will take the needed CPUs from the second machine and the CPUs it was using on primary machine can go to unusable part of EP till m...
almost 7 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Delivered

NEW D-Specifications from selected text

Would like to be able to generate D-spec fields from selected text The New menu will not appear when text is selected. It seems like it would be a productivity improvement if the selected text could appear in the name input of any of the New menu ...
over 10 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Delivered

PowerVC does not utilize multiple IO groups.

PowerVC is currently deploying ALL virtual machines with NPIV zoning only to V7000 IO Group 0. IO Group 1 is not be utilized for client connections.
over 10 years ago in PowerVC 3 Delivered

Retain sort state of Object Table View after refresh

Please save the sort state of the Object Table View and restore it after refreshing the content of the view. Or, refresh the content, not the state, of the view. Use Case: In a long list of source members sorted by name, I am looking at a spot whe...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Delivered

to enable the option "Accessible I/O Groups:" to offer greater availability in the SVC configuration for the provisioned LUN

For the storage template of the SVC (storwize) the client needs to enable the option "Accessible I/O Groups:" to offer greater availability in the SVC configuration for the provisioned LUN of the storage template. We know that there is the advance...
about 7 years ago in PowerVC 1 Delivered

Allow pwage expiration > 180 on user defined policy

When configuring user defined policy on HMC most values are configurable to what is needed to conform to our company password policy but pwage is not configurable to 365 or 99999. It is restricted to up to 180 days.
about 7 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Delivered

RUNSQLSTM MARGIN(100) fails if input record is less than 100.

RUNSQLSTM fails if SRCDTA column width is less than RUNSQLSTM MARGIN(100). Use Case: We wanted to use full statement length of QDDLSRC. 1) Copied RUNSQLSTM command to another library and changed command default to MARGIN(228). 2) CRTSRCPF QDDLSRC ...
about 7 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Delivered

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