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Move selected (highlighted) block using the TAB key

While creating or modifying code (any language) where indentation is a good practice to visually structure the body of the entire program or scrip, this feature will facilitate the opportunity to massive move a block at once and not line per line ...
over 9 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Not under consideration

Sorting in NIM

In NIM all (?) listings/outputs of clients, resources and so on (also and especially in smitty) are not sorted, which makes it difficult when having many entries.
over 9 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

Manage SSP disk snapshot

Our company is using POWERVC to deploy AIX LPAR on our Power systems using SSP disks. We need to use the powervc interface to manage the SSP snaphots, so we could use this funcnionality without the need to access the VIOs directly. By manage, we m...
over 9 years ago in PowerVC 2 Not under consideration

Retrieve values from existing objects

Create or modify objects requires you to specify parameters (i.e. Activation Group, Form Size, Orientation, Size, Reuse Delete records and so on). These parameters may be retrieved from the existing object and prompted. A possible list of object c...
over 9 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Not under consideration

Thread usage statistics enhancements

1. Thread usage stats based on accumulated time dispatched to CPURequest new stat available, via getthrds64 and getrusage(RUSAGE_THREAD,...) accessors, to reflect the accumulated time the thread is dispatched to CPU. Breakdown by user time and sys...
over 9 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

Let client choose the LPAR ID of PowerVC Deployment

The Current PowerVC Driver does not let you choose the LPAR ID to be specified.However we have seen cases in the field that the customer wants to choose the LPAR id to be used for deployment.Major reasons are because1. HMC taskroles rely on LPAR I...
over 9 years ago in PowerVC 2 Not under consideration

RDi default cursor mode

Default to insert mode, or at least give me the option to pick insert instead of overwrite. Every time I open a source file I have to change to insert mode. Use Case: editing code
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Not under consideration

Build date restriction prevent customer from upgrading across AIX TL levels.

Customer : Kaiser Permanente Customer has over 2000 AIX servers running with AIX 7.2 TL01 SP06. When we try to upgrade them to AIX 7.2 TL03 SP02 But it failed because AIX 7.2 TL01 SP06 was released after AIX 7.2 TL03 SP02. AIX 7.2 TL01 SP06 is hav...
almost 5 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

Permanent fix for resilency on NLQ feature on WEX

We need permanent fix on NLQ feature on WATSON explorer (IBM product)..disabling the port is not a permanent solution...we need permanent solution on this.
almost 5 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

Allow changing Record Format Name in ACS Schema Table Definition Window

Allow changing Record Format Name in ACS Schema Table Definition Window after the table has already been created. The field is only available during the new table creation. Use Case: You chose the auto-generated name, but would later like to fix t...
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Not under consideration