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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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Library not found in library list

I added library HSSFCGI to my development partition. I added HSSFCGI to my library list in RDP for my development partition. I was editing a CLLE source member when I tried to prompt the command, XLSGEN, in the library and received error: Command ...
over 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Not under consideration

RDP - Remote Systems LPEX editor free-form SQL enhancements (better formatting)

The SQL formatting can be improved. Indent after the ON clause and after the AS clause in SQL statements. For examples go to developerWorks RD Power forum and look for the 'Free-form SQL formatting...' thread. Use Case: When embedding SQL in a RPG...
over 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Not under consideration

Comment/Uncomment

I'd like the ability to comment and uncomment code with a button and a command key sequence. Most ide's allow you to select a block of code and click on something to comment it out. Use Case: When developing and testing, many times various lines o...
over 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Not under consideration

Provide the ability to copy i source members from one system to another

In multiple partition/system environments it would be beneficial to be able to drag and drop source members between i/os systems. It appears this is available to other operating systems (according to the help documentation) so why not i/os. Use Ca...
over 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Not under consideration

RDPower 8.0.3: RSE filter/show in table - select member by modified date like F17 in PDM

RDPower 8.0.3: RSE filter/show in table - select member by modified date like F17 in PDM.Actually in RSE is not possibile to filter the member list (filter or show in table view) by modifiied date. Use Case: For example: I would like to view only ...
over 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Not under consideration

In RDPi from SQL Results view need new features to display multiple SQL query results output

Using RDPi from Data perspective after opening a SQL Script executing a SQL query the statement shows in History and the output of the query results in the Viewer of SQL Results view. Currently we can only view the output of one SQL query statemen...
over 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Not under consideration

Default .sqlxeditor_project does not appear in the Navigator view under Data Perspective

In RDPi (V8.x.x) from Data Perspective in the Navigator view the default .sqlxeditor_project does not appears in the first time. Once you open a SQL Script then only it will bring the .sqlxeditor_project. Now if I have saved my existing SQL Script...
over 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Not under consideration

In RDPi from RSE using Go Into in Objects then creating filter coming up with Run Time Errors

From RDPi (V8.0.3) in RSE connected to iOS connection then selecting the Objects and on right click of mouse choose Go Into option brings the RSE Objects view. From this view when creating a user filter from Work with libraries/objects/members an ...
over 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Is a defect

In RDPi from RSE same user created filter name appears for more than one iOS connection

Created a permanent filer in RSE for one iOS connection but all the other iOS connections also displays the same filter name where as expanding the filter shows Empty list. For one iOS connection if I have 10 filters and for a different iOS connec...
over 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Not under consideration

Add member type to remote search

As the member filters have please add a member type to the remote search dialog box. Use Case: I am currently doing SQL program research and I would like to eliminate programs that are not SQLRPGLE. Sometimes when the remote search criteria has to...
over 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Not under consideration