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Allow changing color of block nesting arrows

We have some developpers that change the Lpex editor colors to have a black background which they find less hard on the eyes. The show block nesting action (ctrl-shift-o) uses dark blue arrows to show the nesting of if / do / for, etc. That color ...
over 11 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Delivered

vNIC not shown in properties of a partition but is displayed in profile in Classic HMC

When displaying in classic GUI on the HMC, vNIC is not shown in properties but is displayed in the profile. Properties shows what is active and if vNIC is active, it should be shown.
over 7 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Delivered

Updating list of audit events

Customer is looking for a documentation update to the events for auditing. Customer originally opened this DCR in 2014, but it was not moved over when DCR's were migrated to RFE's. Everything from the original information on this DCR request has b...
almost 8 years ago in AIX 4 Delivered

auditpr -v enhancement

Issue: When using the command auditpr –v, each event is output as two distinct lines. The first line contains the audit event, time, user, command, etc. The second line contains critical trail details about the event. This two line format prevents...
almost 8 years ago in AIX 14 Delivered

AIX alt_disk_copy command should detect a rootvg with two boot logical volumes.

When the AIX alt_disk_copy command is run against a rootvg containing multiple logical volumes of type 'boot', the new copy of the rootvg is unbootable. The alt_disk_copy command could easily detect this error and fail with an error message. I'm w...
almost 8 years ago in AIX 0 Delivered

viostat does not report statistics for SSP LU backed VTD

Customer Raiffesen Schwez reported via PMR 08673,112,848 that iostat is not reporting statistics for SSP LU backing devices.This is something they needed to debug an I/O performance issue. We discussed this with Mike Cyr who thought this is not re...
almost 8 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

IBM i Search results view should include complete line even when searching specific columns

In IBM i search there is san option to restrict the search to a column range, however this also affects the results view as only those columns of the line is shown.I think it more as the search criteria is a key and the result is the whole line.Fo...
almost 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Delivered

Janeth Pargas

As several of our RPG programs have a lot of Opens going on we have followed the recommendations of David Frost about lessen the number of Opens. Hitherto we have identified the program VB1002 as the one causing most opens. We have lessen the numb...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Delivered

possibility to 'minimize' /'collapse' selected nbr of lines of code

having the possibility 'minimize-collapse-hide' multiple (user) selected nbr of lines of code. By minimizing one would hide the less important code and giving more view on the important code Use Case: having the possibility 'minimize-collapse-hide...
almost 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Delivered

ACS Run SQL Column Heading (correction for RFE#91465)

RFE#91465 does not what we want. I created a pdf file to describe what we want. Please read attached file Use Case: RFE#91465 does not what we want. I created a pdf file to describe what we want. Please read attached file
about 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered

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