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RDi: display the text everywhere.

Please, display the item's text description everywhere there's a list, for example in RSE or remote search result, exactly like in table view, because it's very hard working on hundreds of items with only 10 charachters. I'm working on Rdi 9.5. Us...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Future consideration

SSH Key capability with HMC and Brocade Switches

SSH Key capability with HMCs and Brocade switches from the GUI which is available on SVC only currently.
over 4 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

5733-ICC Incomplete uploads to COS

"Incomplete uploads" to COS should also be handled with ICC. Use Case: At the moment, such aborted uploads can only be deleted via APIs, which is not user-friendly.
over 3 years ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 3 Future consideration

Add support for Amazon private cloud to Cloud Storage Solutions for i.

IBM Cloud Storage solutions currently only supports Amazon public cloud. I would like to see Amazon private clouds enabled. Use Case: This would be used by customers who have an Amazon private cloud.
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 1 Future consideration

provide "remove disk from configuration" operation in QYASSDMO

Please provide an operation to access "remove disk unit from configuration" via API QYASSDMO Use Case: we are using this API for several disk related operations (mainly adding disk storage to ASPs on running environments), but also want to reduce ...
almost 3 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 3 Future consideration

Enhance multibos preview to check for available space in rootvg

Please enhance multibos so that the preview operation will perform some kind of "required space" calculation for physical partitions in rootvg.
over 7 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

redefining functions in header files - do it the right way

When functions in header files need to be redefined (e.g. to get new default behavior),this should NOT be done by just renaming them with a simple '#define func_new func_old'.Instead, macros should be used like it was done for older XL C/C++ compi...
6 months ago in AIX 0 Submitted

Add round() function to ILE C/C++ (math.h)

We need to use the round() function in ILE C/C++. Currently it is not included in the header math.h. The function is from the C99 standard. z/OS has also support for it: https://www.ibm.com/docs/pl/zos/2.4.0?topic=functions-round-roundf-roundl-rou...
12 months ago in IBM i / Languages - Other 2 Future consideration

Support for native tape attach on Power 10

Are customers now forced to purchase a switch to attach lto tape libraries to Power 10?
over 2 years ago in Power Systems Design 1 Future consideration

RDi: Add templates for CL and DDS

We have a number of templates which we use for the creation of new programs and display files, and having discovered templates within RDi, wanted to transfer them into RDi so they are at every developer's fingertips. Unfortunately, there's no supp...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Future consideration

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