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Find String result save/print

Find String can be performed to locate where, in all or selected source, a string exists. The results show what source code the string was located in. The problem comes when you want to save the ?find result' or print it out. This capability does ...
over 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 8 Delivered

Collection Services Historical Data should be created by default

The ability to create historical data by Collection Services is off by default. Too many clients are not aware of this feature and have not enabled historical data collection. The default should be changed to create historical data. In addition, t...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Performance Tools 1 Delivered

PowerSC GUI server custom bind address

By default PowerSC GUI Server listen on all IP addresses, binding to the port 443 (customizable), and there's no way to specify a custom/specific IP address for the binding. This is quite critical as if there are other services listening on the sa...
about 6 years ago in PowerSC 2 Delivered

IWS web service hard coded library path

When defining a Web Service using IWS, the library path name for the ILE program must be specified and is hard coded. Use Case: A large customer with has a multi-library environment where they may have different versions of programs with the same ...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 2 Delivered

Two-way communication framework

Currently, Instana is only able to collect information from IBMi but not able to feed requests back to IBMi. This is an important piece which our team used to reply and acknowledge events directly from user interface instead of logging into each L...
9 months ago in IBM i / System Management 3 Delivered

Preserve iNav column widths on sys oper message screen

iNav is a terrific tool for administering the IBM i.This request involves the Messages screen (example attached).It is handy to be able to select and sequence columns to display. When I first launch the screen I adjust the column widths to fit the...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / System Management 5 Delivered

Content Assist should consistently insert to new line if inserted text would go past column 80 in free format RPGLE

When using Content Assist in RPGLE free-format near the end of the code section of a line (col 80), the behaviour is inconsistent when the choice would not fit (up to col 79 actually)- in some cases the choice in put on a new line (ex a variable n...
over 11 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 6 Delivered

Behavior of STRPCCMD PAUSE(*NO) of ACS

Customer has the following application. Step1: CPYF FROMFILE(ALIB/MASTERFILE) TOFILE(BLIB/WORKFILE) MBROPT(*REPLACE)Step2: STRPCCMD PCCMD('C:\DOWNLOAD.BAT') PAUSE(*NO)Step3: CLRPFM FILE(BLIB/WORKFILE) * 'C:\DOWNLOAD.BAT' is windows-program which d...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 5 Delivered

shrink size of load source disk unit

Please add ability to shrink load source when using disk unit migration. We often face the problem when we migrate IBM i systems with internal disk units to external attached disks that the internal disk units are way to large. Use Case: e.g. a sy...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / Storage 5 Delivered

Sheet Name in Excel After Data Transfer

We've migrated almost all our old .dtf files to the new .dtfx format after upgrading most of our PCs from IBM i Client Access for Windows to Access Client Solutions. Transfers to and from the IBM i seem to have gone well, however we recently notic...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Delivered