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Create/Add Member Filter from Object Table

Add function to Object Table to select one or more results, right-click, and add the selection to a member filter. There is a similar function in a 3rd party plugin called iSphere that allows adding search results to a member filter, but, its for ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Future consideration

PureStorage Active Cluster support for PowerVC

Would be great to have similar support for Dual site storage mirroring, as there is currently with SVC & HyperSwap on PowerVC 2.0.2. (please see RFE 113249 for details: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=...
over 3 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

RDi IBM i Search retain last Member filter

Rational Developer for i version 9.8 always defaults to a blank Member filter when doing an IBM i Search (CTRL-H => IBM i Search). This means the "*" has to be entered every time. This was a change from prior versions (like 9.6) which defaulted...
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Future consideration

novalink selection of IP interface

Add interface selection to Novalink to allow correct network solution
over 7 years ago in PowerVM NovaLink 2 Future consideration

Allow SQL format option in RDi for SQL source types

Allow function in RDI for SQL source member types (TABLE, VIEW, FUNCTION, PROCEDURE, etc) that will reformat copy and pasted SQL so that it easily formats to the 80 column width of the source file. Allow "Format" option in the RDi source menu for ...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Future consideration

HMC - Correct Operating System version information for IBM i LPARs

The enhanced HMC interface shows incorrect information for the IBM i Operating System version that is loaded.
over 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Future consideration

viosecure -level high should set default firewall rules to denied for inbound traffic

IBM support case TS006803177:---------------------------------------After applying vioscure level 'high', the default firewall rule 0 permits all IP packages, if an IP package does not met any rules. This make the firewall settings useless if you ...
over 3 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 1 Future consideration

Add identity of Database File and Member in QSPL of the SPOOLED File to QUSRSPLA API

Please add the name of the QSPL database file and member to the Retrieve SPOOLED File Attributes API. If there are multiple members/files, then return it as an repeating list of this with the offset and count as the way to jump to the info. Perhap...
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / Print 1 Future consideration

PowerVC - Force name of hdisk in AIX deploy operations

PowerVC deploy of AIX lpars does not ensure the hdx assignment would be the same on every deploy,Natural order will usually result in hd0 as the bootdisk but it can be hd1, current there is no option to pass this as a requirement to a VM deploy op...
over 5 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

SQL Service qsys2.dns_lookup_ip() needs to return *all DNS name for given IP address

the new SQL service qsys2.dns_lookup_ip() should return all the DNS names. currently if only returns the first one found for your given DNS setup. the DIG command does return all associated names
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Future consideration

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