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Add dialog to ACS for displaying "in use" information of stream files stored in the IFS

Include the "in use" dialog into ACS and do not launch the "IBM Navigator for i" web application for displaying the locks of a given IFS stream file. Today "IBM Navigator for i" is launched to display the locks of an IFS stream file following thes...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 6 Delivered

Nesting shortcuts (c-s-m & c-s-o)

The current function of the nesting shortcuts Ctrl-Shift-M and Ctrl-Shift-O will only work if the cursor is positioned on the IF/END or DO/ENDDO or SELECT/ENDSL statement. These two shortcuts should also allow positioning on the related ELSE or WH...
about 9 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Delivered

Powervc: add support for very Long timeout waiting for Cisco swith with Enhanced Zoning

Cisco switches , on zone update may not commit the zone within 30 seconds, If enhanced zoning is enabled (customer knows that isn't supported with PowerVC), PowerVC will timeout the request waiting for a show zone to return answer other than "comm...
over 4 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

Internationalization of EBCDIC environment (ILE)

For applications that need to be true global, then UTF-8 is the solution for today. However, converting a ILE application for UNICODE or UTF-8 is a time consuming and error prone task. The solution might be in between: using a ebcdic based charset...
about 5 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 6 Delivered

Setting to Change Default Insert Mode for Editor

Allow users to configure the default insert mode used in the LPEX editor. Currently, the editor defaults to replace mode every time a file is opened. I would like to be able to change it to default to insert mode instead. Use Case: Allow users to ...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 7 Delivered

Drag and drop from PC to IFS

Please allow drag and drop of files from PC to IFS. Use Case: Drag a file from a PC to the IFS instead of using the current upload option.
over 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 9 Delivered

IBM i Access ODBC driver Connection Timeout

I am using the IBM i Access ODBC driver with PHP, and it does not currently have an option for "Connection Timeout". If the server DSN is temporarily unreachable, the PDO/ODBC connection will wait to timeout until the PHP max_execution_time is rea...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 5 Delivered

PowerVC support for SVC child pools

Request to have SVC child pools supported by PowerVC.
about 3 years ago in PowerVC 1 Delivered

R740 SQE_NATIVE_ACCESS (based on 2 IBM cases : TS004432605 and TS004432605)

Since the time OPNQRYF was introduced and until 7.3 (including), after opening a fileby OPNQRYF the estimated number of record was set properly in the Open Feedback Area. In recent releases there was a need to use a special QAQQINI . As long as we...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 7 Delivered

Allow saving of GUI Preferences

PowerVC 2.0 interface:Please either remember the GUI display settings or let me define my defaults for them.
almost 4 years ago in PowerVC 1 Delivered

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