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Change BRMS MSGID

The BRMS control group is completing with errors because of the save/restore messages CPF3770 and CPF3778. This results in a status of *QUAL. These messages are currently working as designed. It would be better if the CPF3770's were CPC3708's and ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 1 Future consideration

Simplify multilingual support by changing CRTDSPF and CRTPRTF to support new MSGCON parameter "Resolve MSGCON MsgID values at" *COMPILE (default) *RUNTIME (optional)

Multilingual support can be greatly simplified if IBM supports resolving MSGCON messages at *RUNTIME. Currently MSGCON messages are resolved at compile time only (not good). This is problematic because it locks-in compile time values to object whi...
8 months ago in IBM i / Languages - Other 2 Submitted

7063-CR1 BMC Console Redirection over HTML5

On Power Based HMC 7063-CR1 BMC Console Redirection is only possible with Java. On x86 Based HMC 7042-CR9 IMM2 Console Redirection was possible with HTML5.
over 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Not under consideration

Expand the temporary storage metrics in the QAPMSYSTEM file to track each global bucket

The QAPMSYSTEM file in Collection Services has information about system-wide use of temporary storage - but this is grouped into database, non-database, active jobs, and ended jobs. It would be extremely helpful to expand this temporary storage tr...
about 3 years ago in IBM i / Performance Tools 1 Future consideration

Rdi Debug of RPG Step Over enhancements - EXSR and Exec SQL

Currently when debugging RPG code with RDi, Step Over will step over procedure/function calls but will step into EXSR subroutine calls. It should also step over EXSR subroutine calls. Subroutines have similar use cases to subprocedures (and some s...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Not under consideration

New Navigator for i - PDI customized chart

In Heritage Navigator for i - PDI tool, I created customized PDI charts for my use many times. I cannot find this feature in the New Navigator for i. Can you deliver it in the future?
over 1 year ago in IBM i / System Management 2 Not under consideration

Compile ILE source from Orion

Our team includes PHP developers who are beginning to maintain the existing RPG code base. Since the RPG code is included in the same git repository as the PHP code, we need the ability to make changes to the ILE source and compile from the same i...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 2 Not under consideration

Preserve SQL view formatting

When creating complex views their readability is highly dependent on the formatting of the complex SQL statement. When retrieving the SQL definition of an existing view (in order to update it), the majority of the formatting is lost however which ...
about 3 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 4 Not under consideration

Backup Node with different operating system

Backup Node and PowerVC Server on different architecture and Operating System. For example backup Node on ppc64le running SLES and the PowerVC Server on x86 running Red Hat.
12 months ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Update the "alarm" in PowerVC clock to show level of alert

If its a "red alarma clock it synced with something that has failed, if its blue its some info and if its green something good happened.Now all alerts are red, and one might think its actually something gone wrong.
12 months ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

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