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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against IBM Power Systems products, including IBM i. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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Workspace should remember Debug Service Entry Points

All Service Entry Debug Entrys are gone when restarting the IDE - the workspace should save them in the same way it does with the other debug configurations (Favorites etc.) Use Case: Each time you restart your IDE you will have te reconfigure the...
over 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 6 Not under consideration

Support the F3 "goto" function in RPG type source members

When editing an RPGLE source member, if you put the cursor on a subroutine or subprocedure name and press F3, the source code is positioned at the selected subroutine/procedure. This functionality is not supported in RPG source members. Use Case: ...
over 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Not under consideration

No warning message when you are trying to added a already exist routing.

I had encounter a problem when I used AIX command "lsattr -El inet0". I could saw there has two record exist in ODM and these record are direction to the same destination but difference format. I have no message to warning when I am add or delete ...
over 6 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

Provide version Protocol 6 for sftp in OpenSSH

Customer Fluor requires protocol version 6 of fftp for AIX 7.1
over 6 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

Screen Designer droping a reconrd in a Window should include window keyword referencing the existing window

When buiding a window that contains a subfile, we typically have at least three record formats: the subfile, the control and another one for the keys at the bottom. So using the Design Screen mode we would- create a new screen- drag a subfile reco...
over 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Not under consideration

Create Table of Virtual Machines Names to choose from for Deployment

Instead of being able to enter in the Virtual Machine Name at deployment time I would like to have a list of names to choose from instead. The list would have been created and entered in earlier by the Admin and would associate an IP address with ...
almost 7 years ago in PowerVC 1 Not under consideration

aixpert

System: aixpertActor : Need new feature to allow granularity of user for hardening parameters. Description : This feature will help in compliance check.
almost 7 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

Integration with 3rd Party SDN

Integration with 3rd Party SDN to support Network virtualistaion
almost 7 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

IFS includes not added to outline and content assist

LPEX editor/outline/content assist: If an include from the IFS is included into a source code/program then its content is not included into the information of the outline and is not accessible through content assist (ctrl+space), even when I speci...
over 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 6 Not under consideration

Enhanced Compare Selection Interface

The ability to show a comparison between two or three members is a very handy feature but the ability to select the member to compare to is cumbersome/time consuming. To select the member, either you have to have the library in the list or specify...
over 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Not under consideration