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RDi show full qualified member name in member comparison

In a member comparison, only the member name is displayed in the title bar. Use Case: In the case of the same member names in different libraries or source members, it would be helpful which member is displayed on the left and right. Please show t...
about 3 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Delivered

Add New BIF's %right() and %left()

While %left(str: int) can be done with a %subst(str: 1: int), %right(str: int) is not so straight forward. %right(str: int) must be written as %subst(str: %len(%trimr(str)) - (int - 1)) This is far less readable. Please add convenience BIF's %left...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 14 Delivered

SMB 3 (SMBv3) support needed in IBM i 7.3

for better integration of our windows 2012 and 2016 servers and for security issues we need SMBv3 in IBM i V7R3. Use Case: for better integration of our windows 2012 and 2016 servers and for security issues we need SMBv3 in IBM i V7R3.
over 7 years ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 5 Delivered

power supplies status check

We need a way to determine power supplies status for IBM Power Systems Server deployed with PowerVM and HMC in a remote data-centre. Just like HP iLO or old IBM's IMM (Integrated Managemnt Module for x86 server) displays a red or green icon per po...
almost 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 6 Delivered

sendmail compiled with SASL support

Need to interface with Amazon Web Services (AWS) Simple E-mail Service (SES), which requires login credentials / authentication to be encrypted. Neither sendmail or sendmail_ssl are currently compiled with SASL support; sendmail_ssl, if that remai...
over 6 years ago in AIX 3 Delivered

ACS Sql scripts F4 Prompt is too slow

IBM does not support CA for Windows so IBM is wanting users to move to ACS. IBM wants us to move away from greenscreen SQL and use the ACS SQL Scripts. Well there have been many issues I have found with this ACS software. But this case concerns th...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 10 Delivered

Make Access Client Solutions easier to distribute

Currently all ACS installs are manual at deployment of a user's PC and manual updates as needed if the user reports any issues and we notice they are on an older version. We have tried to package ACS into an EXE file that could be deployed through...
10 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 13 Delivered

set coulmn width for SYSTOOLS.GENERATE_SPREADSHEET when export to excel

It would be useful to be able to set column width for each column or *auto to make width fit data when creating excelfiles from SYSTOOLS.GENERATE_SPREADSHEET. Then the result looks better when creating and sending reports from the machine.
11 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 4 Delivered

HMC to send updates on RMC state

Tools like PowerVC poll the HMC on RMC state changes for VMs. With that it takes some time until PowerVC notices that the RMC state for a VM is okay. A different way would be if the the HMC can send RMC updates to tools like PowerVC.
over 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Delivered

LPM VMs to original system after Evacuation or Remote Restart

If a host is evacuated for systems maintenance or VMs are restarted using Remote Restart after a system outage PowerVC does not save the original source system to able to LPM the VMs back to the source after the maintenance.
about 6 years ago in PowerVC 3 Delivered