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Proper Support for High DPI Monitors

High DPI monitors almost always require running Windows 10 Scaling at 125% or higher. Nearly all native applications properly support this scaling. ACS does not. All icons and text become blurry as compared to other applications (because High DPI ...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Not under consideration

Add edit/browse capability for called programs similar to copy books

When editing a CL or RPG source member in RDi, it would be cool if you could right click on a called program in that source and edit/browse that program in a new tab. This would perform similar to when you right click on a copy book. The LPEX edit...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Future consideration

Add copy while active parameter to CPY, CPYFRMIMPF, CPYFRMSTMF commands

The CPY, CPYFRMIMPF, and CPYFRMSTMF commands will not copy the contents of a file which is currently open for update. User applications which import text files uploaded into IFS directories from applications like MS Excel fail because Excel retain...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 2 Not under consideration

NFS 4.1 and 4.2 functionality on AIX

we need NFS version 4.1 and 4.2 support in AIX (at least NFS-client side!) In Linux we do have NFS 4.1 and 4.2 support: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/storage_administration_guide/ch-nfs currently AIX...
over 5 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

Allow automatic DATFMT at signon

I have yet to find a way to set DATFMT automatically at signon.I deal with some systems with "YYMMDD" or "DDMMYY". I personally prefer "MMDDYY", but I can't change the system value.Could DATFMT be added as an option in a user profile? Or as an opt...
about 3 years ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 4 Not under consideration

Option to exclude comment lines when debugging

This is a request to add functionality to all debuggers on the system to allow the exclusion or the ability to switch to having comment statements shown or not shown. Use Case: Comment lines are shown and in many cases, it is difficult to identify...
about 3 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 5 Not under consideration

Reduce sync time with CPYF command

Db2Mirror system performance is poor. A CPYF command with "INCLUDE" replication rules takes more than 1 hour with an object of 43 million records. By setting the same rule as "EXCLUDE", the command takes about 2 minutes. This slowness is repeate...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Db2 Mirror 2 Future consideration

PowerVC support to rediscover Hardware on hardware changes, without removing hardware

This would avoid manually managing changes to hardware for PowerVC managed systems When a host has an adapter (FC) replaced, Powervc does not automatically update all managed systems to support ideally powervc, would discover hardware has changed,...
about 1 year ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Simplify HMC update

Please make HMC update similar to Firmware update.Ability to download directly from IBM/local and update to the latest in same level or upgrade to next level.something simple like chrome browser update.
over 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

Add links to PTF Cover Letter

Make the PTFid a link to the PTF Cover Letter. Using Administration Runtime Expert to manage patches with a Central System, sending to multiple endpoints. When the report finishes and you drill down into which PTFs are missing it lists the Product...
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / System Management 1 Future consideration