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IBM i

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PowerHA leaves *SYSBAS unknow

The biggest failure I have seen with PowerHa Switch or Fail over has been objects created in *SYSBAS. Most logical replication products have a tool to audit what is not being replicated. It would be great if PowerHA have an Audit tool to Compare a...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / PowerHA 4 Delivered

Retain sort state of Object Table View after refresh

Please save the sort state of the Object Table View and restore it after refreshing the content of the view. Or, refresh the content, not the state, of the view. Use Case: In a long list of source members sorted by name, I am looking at a spot whe...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Delivered

RUNSQLSTM MARGIN(100) fails if input record is less than 100.

RUNSQLSTM fails if SRCDTA column width is less than RUNSQLSTM MARGIN(100). Use Case: We wanted to use full statement length of QDDLSRC. 1) Copied RUNSQLSTM command to another library and changed command default to MARGIN(228). 2) CRTSRCPF QDDLSRC ...
about 7 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Delivered

Consolidated Project View

System: Rational Developer for Power Systems ProjectActor: User needing new feature The iProject view is commonly used for development of RPG applications. Many applications have a variety of architectures that are required for development, many w...
almost 11 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 8 Delivered

RSE "Filter Strings" Dialog Usability

This dialog must be one of the strangest and most incomprehensible Windows dialogs in any Windows application anywhere. I am always puzzled by: 1. The flow of control: How the buttons and dropdowns work, how they're related to one another, in what...
about 11 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Delivered

Make background IBM i search not interfere with opening member, running commands, debugging

Running of IBM i searches can now be done in background which does not block the UI and we can now edit an already opend member. However, the search uses the same communication channel as is used to run commands, open members, expand items in RSE,...
over 11 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Delivered

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

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