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cascading storage groups for EMC/Dell storage should be an option, not forced.

Sometime back IBM changed PowerVC to force cascading storage groups which caused extreme difficulty to the point of making PowerVC unusable in our EMC Storage array environment. Even after redommissioning PowerVC (with regret), we were migrating 5...
8 months ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Make ibm more strong

Because ibm acadmic website is too buffer
8 months ago in IBM i / Db2 Web Query 1 Not under consideration

RDI: rendering a screen takes forever - should cache field reference file

I'm working from home via VPN. When editing a subfile in a display file it takes forever to render the screen using the screen designer. A total of 28 fields in the subfile control and subfile took 10 minutes to render. I think that the cause is t...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Future consideration

DDS: Add trim-indicator to all mainstream 1D BARCODE (i.e. COD128)

DDS: Add trim-indicator to all mainstream 1D BARCODE (i.e. COD128) like 2D QR barcodes. Frequently used codes like COD128 lacks the ability to trim right spaces before rendering the barcodes. Consequently, a real case of a field say of 30 chars, t...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Print 1 Future consideration

Trace usage of External SQL functions (linked to an external program) in OBJECT_STATISTICS or somewhere else

There is no IBMi object for External SQL Functions (linked to an external program). These functions are only knows and identified in DataBase level. It is impossible to know the last usage date for these functions. You can get the last usage date ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Functionality already exists

Suppress warning message on CHGPF

When CHGPF is issues as a 5250 green screen command, and the effect is to drop or shorten a column, an inquiry message requesting to proceed is sent to the workstation so the user can allow the CHGPF to proceed. In RDi, this does not work since th...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 6 Not under consideration

Red flash and text "RMC connection: None?

HMC Version 9 Release 1 Service pack 931Client has a red flash on all IBM i partitions and the text “RMC connection: None” As I understand only VIOS, AIX and Linux is using RMC connections and not IBM i, so it is very misleading to have the red fl...
about 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Is a defect

Allow shorter audit value columns

The audit columns defined as GENERATED ALWAYS AS USER, SESSION_USER or CURRENT CLIENT_USERID require the column to be either 18, 128 or 255 bytes. While this is maybe a theoretical limit it makes no sense in 99.999% of the cases as usernames on IB...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Not under consideration

Reconsider XMLTOOLKIT (5733XT2)

I learned that IBM plans to end support for XMLTOOLKIT (5733XT2). As far as I know, this product is the only option available, if you want to create xml with RPG when you need to create elements dynamically. Please reconsider further development o...
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 2 Not under consideration

RTVSYSINF / UPDSYSINF

1. Include changes to job descriptions and subsystem descriptions to the RTVSYSINF and UPDSYSINF commands. It's nice that you include changes to the system reply list but if the job descriptions revert back to the default value of INQMSGRPY(*RQD) ...
about 7 years ago in IBM i / Install and Upgrade and Licensing 3 Not under consideration

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