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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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Push To Client not saving Key Bindings

The Push-To-Client feature is not saving customization to the Key Bindings in RDi 9.5. Use Case: Push-to-Client is a great feature for simplifying the roll-out of standard configuration and key bindings would be a natural extension.
about 10 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Is a defect

To enable IPSec filter for network range in AIX servers

We want to allow one network segment alone like 10.1.23.0/24. How to do that with AIX IPSec, we know we can do it for individual IP's with IPSec.
about 5 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

Can't install RDi on removable device

As a consultant in a small company, I would like to be able to install RDi on a removable device such as a USB stick so I can move it from one laptop to another for use with different clients. Use Case: As a consultant, I am often given a laptop f...
about 5 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Not under consideration

Perfromance Improvement for the AIX 7.1 commands grep, wc and sort in UTF-8 locale

Customer reported slower performance with UTF-8 locale, for scriptsparsing UTF-8 text with wc, sort, grep.
over 10 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

Move selected (highlighted) block using the TAB key

While creating or modifying code (any language) where indentation is a good practice to visually structure the body of the entire program or scrip, this feature will facilitate the opportunity to massive move a block at once and not line per line ...
over 10 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Not under consideration

Sorting in NIM

In NIM all (?) listings/outputs of clients, resources and so on (also and especially in smitty) are not sorted, which makes it difficult when having many entries.
over 10 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

Manage SSP disk snapshot

Our company is using POWERVC to deploy AIX LPAR on our Power systems using SSP disks. We need to use the powervc interface to manage the SSP snaphots, so we could use this funcnionality without the need to access the VIOs directly. By manage, we m...
over 10 years ago in PowerVC 2 Not under consideration

pls increase TOP 10 metric value on db2monreports from 10 to 30 or 50

Hicould you pls increase the limit on TOP metrics from "TOP 10 " to "TOP 30 or 50" ? at present, we are missing some important queries to get captured in these reports.
about 5 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

Retrieve values from existing objects

Create or modify objects requires you to specify parameters (i.e. Activation Group, Form Size, Orientation, Size, Reuse Delete records and so on). These parameters may be retrieved from the existing object and prompted. A possible list of object c...
over 10 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Not under consideration

Thread usage statistics enhancements

1. Thread usage stats based on accumulated time dispatched to CPURequest new stat available, via getthrds64 and getrusage(RUSAGE_THREAD,...) accessors, to reflect the accumulated time the thread is dispatched to CPU. Breakdown by user time and sys...
over 10 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration