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IBM i

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Add "Format Source" option to LPEX Editor save preferences.

Add option "Format source" to the "Save" preferences of the LPEX Editor. When "Format source" is checked, the LPEX Editor should format the source code before saving it. Use Case: The "Format source" option is required when using a source code rep...
about 7 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Not under consideration

vFC Mappings and Live Partition Mobility

You can do multiple vFC mappings on one physical FC port for IBM i, that is supported. But if you want to do LPM, that is not possible.This is of course very bad, one customer got stuck with it.We are currently rebuilding, and that is only possibl...
about 3 years ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 1 Not under consideration

Make Compare More Accurate

The compare facility is a simple text compare. It easily gets confused when changes to source are too complex. It would be nice if the source compare had at least a little language specific intelligence. In RPG for instance the compare routines co...
about 7 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 6 Not under consideration

Give the built in base IBM i Auditing and security tools a product name

When dealing with Auditors, they nearly always as for product names for tools used to Audit and Secure the IBM i platform. Simply saying we used the built in functions, just leads to more questions. Ideally we could do with a Brand Name or Produc...
about 2 years ago in IBM i / Security 2 Not under consideration

Park ACS Session Manager on Mac Menu Bar

This request is a usability enhancement linked to RFE 145698 and pertains to ease of use when connecting ACS to a large number of LPARS's or IBM i servers, Please provide an option to park the ACS session manager icon on the Mac menu bar so it can...
about 3 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

Allow array index to start from zero instead of 1

I would like to have the possibility to specify that the index of an array starts from zero instead of 1. Many times I have to code something like thiseval myArray(x+1) = 1234where x can have the value zero. If it was possible to specify that the ...
about 5 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 5 Not under consideration

ACS - a security breach -- no way to log off requiring new credentials to be entered

One of my colleagues recently discovered a security breach i ACS. He was giving a user support in ACS and was the first to log on. The setting regarding passwords in ACS was "use shared credentials" ( roughly translated from our native language )....
over 2 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Not under consideration

Add an API or similar option to an existing API to get all messages for a specified Job

Today if you need all messages for an ACTIVE Job you have the Joblog Message APIs, and if you extract the Exception Message Queue for the job you also have that msg queue. But in the context of a Scheduled Job that runs and has finished processing...
about 1 year ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 6 Not under consideration

TLS 1.3 5250 emulation support

In 2016 support for TLS1.2 was added for 5250 emulation. The IETF approved RFC 8446 for TLS1.3 and support in the emulators should be adopted Use Case: Increased security protocol support.
about 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Not under consideration

Export Outline View Contents

The Outline view has drastically improved over the last several RDi releases. I propose that the data from the outline view be able to be exported. This data could then be used for a number of helpful things, but it would be especially helpful in ...
about 8 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Not under consideration

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