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Enable Job Description to be defined on Printer Device Description

When a print writer is started there is no option to specify a job description. There are three supplied job descriptions:QSPLPRTW - used for all local and LAN Writers QSPLAFPW - used for local and LAN writers for IPDS printers configured with AFP...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / Print 4 Future consideration

Widen panel dividers

Maybe I'm getting old ;-) ... but I'm frustrated wasting precious seconds moving my cursor back and forth across the panel dividers in a perspective trying to position the cursor precisely in the 2-pixel (or so it seems) width of the divider, requ...
over 11 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Future consideration

Please add the Java Modernization Tools for RPG and COBOL into RDI 9.8 like RDI 9.6 with the tools option.

IBM Rational Developer for i RPG and COBOL + Modernization Tools, Java Edition V9.6 Core Multiplatform Multilingual eAssembly (CJ2JVML) comes with many tools for exposing IBM i backend business logic to web based application written in Java for th...
27 days ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Future consideration

Allow ACS to start in Group view

I'd like ACS launch parameter that would start ACS in System Groups view directly - will be very helpful for those managing large number of partitions.
4 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Future consideration

Support an ADD MEMBER option on the GENERATE_SQL SQL Stored Procedure

Today if the output source file and member do not exist, the procedure fails. I think the proc should add/replace the data in the output member but also add the member if it does not exist.
5 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Future consideration

Enhance Remote Reconciler so that multiple source members can be pulled at once

Today the Remote Reconciler does not allow selecting multiple source members for being pulled to the PC. Option "Pull from" is greyed out if multiple members are selected. In case there are several new source members on the host, the members can o...
6 months ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Future consideration

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...
6 months ago in IBM i / Performance Tools 1 Future consideration

QSHELL support CCSID 1377

Confirm with Lab team, based on link below, CCSID 1377 is not supported: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.4?topic=qshell-national-language-support-nls-considerations I test CCSID 935 1388 937, all works, just like above link describe. However, 1377...
7 months ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 2 Future consideration

System list navigator

In a scenario of a company managing a significant amount of IBM i partitions it would be really important to have the ability to manage all those partitions via navigator. At the moment when a new system is defined one has to either manually enter...
8 months ago in IBM i / System Management 2 Future consideration

cascading storage groups for EMC/Dell storage should be an option, not forced.

Sometime back IBM changed PowerVC to force cascading storage groups which caused extreme difficulty to the point of making PowerVC unusable in our EMC Storage array environment. Even after redommissioning PowerVC (with regret), we were migrating 5...
10 months ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

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