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IBM i

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When open member in editor(Ctrl-Shift-A) for display or print file, add open or browse with report designer/screen designer

Instead of having to the remote systems and select a member, right click and browse or open with, have this option added to the pop-up when you do a Ctrl-Shift-A. Use Case: It would be used anytime you open a display file or print file.
almost 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 6 Delivered

Concurrent use of Screen History and Macro Playback in ACS

Upon running a macro in Access Client Solutions Version 1.1.7.0 we are informed that we must disable/remove screen history in order to run macros. We want to run macros while screen history is turned on. (It would not be necessary to record the sc...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered

Keep unanswered inquiry messages for qsysopr on top with different color in the new navigator for i

In IBM i Access for Windows unanswered inquiry messages were kept on top in a different color. This functionality is missing in the new navigator for i. This is very unpractical for us as we now have to filter on inquiry type and we don't see a di...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / System Management 4 Delivered

Memory page fault threshold alert in message queue in IBM i

If page fault numbers are more and created in system pools. Its not displayed or alerted in any message queue. We like to see set threshold value for each memory pool for *FIXED and *CALC and once the threshold value of page vault is reached. then...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / Performance Tools 3 Delivered

Outputq description view

New SQL View or enhancement to a current view (object statistics or output_queue_info maybe?) to view output_queue_info. Reasoning, a pain point for admins is when they have to create outputq’s for new printers, they dup the object, make some chan...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 10 Delivered

The PDM option 14 is not available from the list of PDM option for a selection result list

Add the possibility to call the PDM option 14 (compile) also from the result of a selection list. Use Case: When a physical file is changed (for example the record structure is modified), usually it is necessary to recompile all the programs which...
over 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 6 Delivered

Shared/Team access to Templates and Snippets

We would like the ability to configure and access shared and/or team Templates and Snippets. Use Case: To define and access shared/team Templates and Snippets that could be stored on our network somewhere or even the System i IFS. Preferably the d...
over 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 8 Delivered

Require a "preferences" page for new Block Comment feature in RDP

RDP 8.0.3 introduced a new feature for commenting blocks of code. This feature inserts the comment character into the relevant position on every line selected. RPG fixed-format code requires a character to be in a specific position for the code to...
over 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 7 Delivered

Copied Team Profile Does not copy all properties

If I copy an active team profile all the connections and filters are duplicated properly but the property sets are not. Its these property sets that is where the user actions, compile commands, etc. reside. It is very cumbersome to manually copy t...
over 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 7 Delivered

Enable IBM Navigator for i to access servers running older OS releases

Using the latest IBM Navigator for i and adding a node to our V7R2 server no information on CPU usage etc. was returned. Clicking on the "View SQL" and then running that SQL via ACS returned the expected information. Turns out the actual SQL exe...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / System Management 3 Delivered