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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

Allow copy of fields in Field Table or Create option to insert list of fields in code

Where its native RLA or SQL program code, it would be nice to either select one or all fields from the Field Table view to insert into the code or have option off the right-click menu to insert a files field list into the code (names only). Use Ca...
almost 11 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Not under consideration

Please port graphviz to PASE and include it in the standard IBM Open repo

Please port graphviz https://graphviz.org/ to PASE and include it in the standard IBM Open repo. Being IBMi business oriented, having an open graph renderer like graphviz readily available, would be beneficial, given the graph structure representa...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 1 Under review

UAK process to handle multiple maintenance contracts as a whole

HMC checks if there is a valid maintenance contract for the managed servers by inquiring to IBM License Server. At the time of the contract renewal, there is delay of 1 to 2 days to have the UAK in HMC reflected even if there is no term gap betwee...
almost 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Not under 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...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 6 Future consideration

Virtual Networks display - improve the order of items listed, or allow the user to save a preferred order

HMC V9 and V10 GUI - the Virtual Networks display can have a high number of virtual networks listed. Please can these be ordered either by PVID ascending or by Virtual Network Name ascending to allow the user to organise the display. Alternatively...
over 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

Change "Open Member in Editor" dialog to open "Select a member" or file tree level matching where you click on "Browse..."

In the "Open Member in Editor" dialog, you can specify everything from connection to library to file to member. If you don't know the library or file or member, you can browse for them. See "Open Member in Editor.png" attachment. But the browse di...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 7 Future consideration

Convert to Free Format for D, P and F-Specs

We are missing an option to convert D, P and F-Specs automatically to Free format Syntax. This is currently only working for C-Specs. Please add this feature to the existing function. Currently you can reach the function by right-click on the RPG-...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Not under consideration

Enhance VIOS "Virtual SCSI Optical/ISO images" --- to mirror VMware ESXi functionality for "Virtual SCSI Optical/ISO images"

Enhance VIOS "Virtual SCSI Optical/ISO images" --- to mirror VMware ESXi functionality for "Virtual SCSI Optical/ISO images" #####################################mkrep -sp rootvg -size 20Gls -l /fix/AIX_v7.2_Base_Install_DVD_1_of_2_TL_7200-01-01.1...
almost 8 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 3 Not under consideration

RPG File Description Keywords SFLPAG and SFLSIZ

I'm missing 2 File Description Keywords, SFLPAG and SFLSIZ.They should return the values from the subfile control record in a WORKSTN file. Today we are hardcoding the values in the programs and have to remenber to change them if we change the sub...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 4 Not under consideration