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PEP 2.0 Support for Novalink/CMC

Request to enhance MCM to support Novalink with PEP 2.0 capacity Credits.
almost 3 years ago in Cloud Management Console 5 Needs more information

QShell Improvements

When starting a Qshell for an IBM i Connection within RDi, currently it behaves significantly different from the shell environment started in 5250 emulation with command STRQSH. Most important features STRQSH has, but RDi Qshell has not: 1) Upon s...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Future consideration

"Ctrl-a" (Select All) in a Find Dialogue text entry box should select text there only, not in the editor source

On RDi 9.6.0.4, with the Find Dialogue open in an active editor, with the cursor positioned in either the "Find" or "Replace" text box, pressing Ctrl-a to Select All should select only the text in that box. Currently, this keyboard shortcut select...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 6 Future consideration

New attribute "spooled file topic" on printer file.

Add a new attribute "spooled file topic" on the printer file for a long and readable description of each spooled file. Add the new attribute to CRTPRTF and OVRPRTF commands. Use Case: This new attribute is very helpfull for the user that must find...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Print 3 Not under consideration

Anpassung SMTP Server

im Parameter ALIASDMN können leider nur 10 Aliasnamen eingetragen werden, wir würden für unsere Niederlassungen aber ca. 30 ALIAS benötigen.
7 months ago in IBM i / Networking 3 Under review

Log information to QHST when someone or something clears QSYSOPR message queue.

Makes it easy to identify who or what cleared the message queue.
about 1 year ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 1 Not under consideration

Prevent the automatic resuming of mirrored protection after storage systems are available again

Hello, during an incident where a few IBM SVC nodes went offline and storage pools were not available anymore we encountered a problem with the system performance due to the automatic resuming of mirrored protection.A few minutes after the inital ...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Storage 1 Future consideration

CPYTOSTMF

The CPYTOSTMF does not have the functionality to create a "Native Excel" XLS or XLSX file when the FROMFILE is an Physical file . Currently the CPYTOSTMF creates a delimited file separating fields using a comma, tilde, semicolon, etc. Suggest the ...
about 4 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 6 Not under consideration

IWS wizard for creating or updating a web service: give the choice to save it as QSH script

In a world where CI/CD is more and more important the possibility to have the script creation in a git or similar instead of just creating the service is important to customers with several environments to keep trace of the changes.
about 1 year ago in IBM i / Web Serving 2 Functionality already exists

Deploy DCM with default *SYSTEM key store

Currently DCM is deployed without a *SYSTEM KDB (key store). That means, even simple applications using https requests need to create a kdb to function properly. As it is common on every other operating system these days, IBM should deploy DCM in ...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Security 4 Not under consideration

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