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Enhance PDI to have the option to open drill-downs in new tab

In New Navigator, the Performance Data Investigator supports opening the initial chart in a new tab. However, all drill downs taken on that chart open in the same tab. This is problematic for the following reasons: I often need to look at mulitple...
3 months ago in IBM i / Performance Tools 1 Future consideration

Allow variables defined with like(<file-field>) to be used as embedded SQL host variables

If a variable in RPGLE is defined with like, and the source field comes from an external file (PF, DSPF, etc), the SQL preprocessor does not like it. Example: dcl-f CUSTMAST keyed; dcl-s qCust like(CUSTNUM); // CUSTNUM defined in CUSTMAST If I att...
10 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Future consideration

Simple RPG BIF to submit a process in batch.

We have to build the complete sbmjob command string to run a process in batch from RPG. My suggestion (original idea from Golang goroutines) is to use a simple BIF that will accept a process name and parameters as input, submit the process in batc...
10 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 2 Not under consideration

Would like an option to run the CL formatter over a whole member

I recently changed the CL formatter settings in Rational Developer for i. I'd like to reformat the member I am editing, but the only way I have found to do so is to modify every line. I accomplish this by replacing one blank with one blank, limiti...
about 1 year ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Future consideration

ACS with GraalVM

ACS is a java program, that benefits from all what Java is good for, however also have two downsides: The statup time is slow The memory consumption is high. The memory consumption is an real issue when using ACS in Citrix environments. So the ide...
about 1 year ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

Change the timeout limit for Hyperswap on IBM i driver

I'm opening this request on name of a Bank in Spain. They have PowerHA Express with DS8K hyper swap. During the upgrade of the firmware of DS8K some of the IBM i LPARs switched to the secondary storage box. They think this behavior is not acceptab...
about 1 year ago in IBM i / PowerHA 1 Not under consideration

add volume mobility support for IBM i

IBM Spectrum Virtualize 8.4.2 just introduced support for volume mobility. Currently only a hand full of operating systems are supported - not including IBMi.We would like to have volume mobility supported for IBM i operating system as well. Use C...
about 3 years ago in IBM i / Storage 1 Future consideration

VIOS no-prompt updateios

Hi IBM, Would you be able to add a flag/option to the updateios command to suppress the 'Continue bos.rte.install installation [y|n]?' and other similar prompts?
almost 7 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 3 Not under consideration

Enhance PHA Startup Policy "Online Using Node Distribution Policy"

Today the PowerHA Starup policy "Online Using Node Distribution Policy" is hard coded to use the CPU load only.There should be the same list of options as for Resource Group Fallover policy "Fallover Using Dynamic Node Priority".
about 4 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 0 Planned for future release

TLS support for iACS Graphical Debugger

The Graphical Debugger included with iACS connects to insecure port 8475 (as-rmtcmd) instead of secure port 9475 (as-rmtcmd-s) for the remote command service. I have not performed a line trace but suspect the remote debugger service running on por...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 2 Future consideration