IBM Power Ideas Portal


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against IBM Power Systems products, including IBM i. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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IBM i

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    Add alignment function to report designer

    The Screen Designer function includes an alignment feature--i.e., you can right-click on a field and select the alignment option (Left,Center,Right). The Report Designer does not include this function. Use Case: While in Report Designer, add a fie...
    over 11 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Not under consideration

    Create a check for bogus job descriptions and removed libraries

    When an incorrect job description or a library associated with a job description is removed from the IBM i LPAR, this error occurs with RDi/RDp or RTC/RDi/RDp shell shared: RCQP3615E: The following error occurred while loading artifacts from the r...
    over 11 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Not under consideration

    Elminate excessive alarm sounds during entry of CL source

    When entering a CL command and typing beyond column 80, an error sound is triggered for each character typed. This is superfluous when "Automatic formatting" is enabled as the text will not be truncated once the formatting takes place. The consist...
    over 11 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 8 Not under consideration

    Scroll "Indentation" view along-side source view

    It would be very beneficial to scroll the indentation view next to the source view. When viewing old fixed format programs, it's often helpful to see the indentation view. So, I read on the indentation view until I find the section of code that ne...
    over 11 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Not under consideration

    Ctrl+W not functional in RPG Indentaion View

    RPG Indentation view acts like a read only view of the LPEX editor which is very nice. One feature you get is the LPEX find. When I find and select (as I al most always do) to Find All, I can see a condensed view of the source (like I expect). Whe...
    over 11 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Not under consideration

    RDi 9.0.1 LPEX Editor - Outline View indicator tree

    The indicator tree is a very useful feature. However, we have found that not only does it show indicators from the RPG program, it also shows indicators from the associated DDS (display files and report files) from the F-specs. This is not necessa...
    over 11 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Not under consideration

    RDi 9.0.1 Table View - navigation

    When clicking in the Table View area, we must be extremely careful not to accidentally change a source member name. We are used to positioning, like in the Remote Systems tree view (and Windows Explorer), by typing a few characters of the member w...
    over 11 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Not under consideration

    Support Content Assist on CLP control flow structure IF–THEN–ELSE.

    It would be very helpful to be able to use content assist with CTRL+SPACE for complex structures like IF?THEN?ELSE for CLP inside Rational Developer for i. Eclipse uses this feature natively in Java and other languages. Programmers who are experie...
    over 11 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Not under consideration

    Create an compile menus with Rational

    The Problem in the Rational Developer for i is the missing opportunity to compile menus. In the 5250 Terminal Emulation you can use STRSDA (Screen Design Aid) to create and compile menus. There you have prepared lines to ll in the menu-options yo...
    over 11 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Not under consideration

    Keep multi-line DCL-S lines together when sorting

    The "sort" command does not take into account DCL-S code spanning mutliple lines even though we have to key the semi-colon as the line end marker. Unlike the previous D-specs in fixed form it "seems" like it should be easier to determine ALL the d...
    over 11 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Not under consideration

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