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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against IBM Power Systems products, including IBM i. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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Merge facility should be provided in the file compare of RDp

My customer needs to constantly comparing files and merge them on a System i platform. These are currently done manually by copy and pasting on a greenscreen. I am trying to get them to use RDP for the job but they do not find it much faster manua...
about 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Not under consideration

Give me option to make a search type the default

Please give me the option to make my preferred search tool (CTRL+H) search tab panel the default to appear when pressing CTRL+H. Use Case: I currently activate "IBM i Search", "Remote Search" and "File Search" (the tabs appear in this order). In m...
about 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Not under consideration

Compare File add Default Source Library

When I do a Compare File for a source in my personal code library, I almost always compare to the same production code library. If I am in QRPGLESRC, I almost always am comparing to QRPGLESRC, and if I am in member xyz, I almost always compare to ...
about 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Not under consideration

compile-menu in menu-bar, when screen-designer is in design- or preview-mode

in the screen-designer, there are the 3 modes "Design", "Source" and "Preview". in the source-mode, there is the possibility to start the compiler over the menu-bar. this compiler-menu is missing in the menu-bar when the design- or the preview-mod...
about 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Not under consideration

Possibility to create (source-)filters in iProjects (like in RSE)

It should be possible to create (source-)filters in iProjects. Without filters in iProjects, the whole source-list has to be expanded, which is really inefficient. Use Case: In every iProject to create filters, similar to the functionality in the ...
about 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Not under consideration

Debug view obscures edit view when in full-screen

When in debug, double clicking the editor tab maximises the source code view. This completely fills the screen; no other views are visible. When stepping through the program, the debug view re-appears and obscures the top part of the source code. ...
over 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Not under consideration

Debug view obscures edit view when in full-screen

When in debug, double clicking the editor tab maximises the source code view. This completely fills the screen; no other views are visible. When stepping through the program, the debug view re-appears and obscures the top part of the source code. ...
over 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Not under consideration

Screendesigner shows G-fields with CCSID1200 and *LEN with wrong length

When using Graphic-Fields with CCSID 1200 and *LEN or *MIN, the Screendesigner paints them with a wrong length and overlaps fields or records which is not correct. Also the Sourcecode Editor shows wrong error messages. You can compile the display ...
over 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Not under consideration

Cannot filter member in iProject explorer

Cannot filter member in iProject explorer.There will be a large number of contents in iProject explorer,cannot locate a member directly. Use Case: Cannot filter member in iProject explorer.There will be a large number of contents in iProject explo...
over 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Not under consideration

RDp to handle special character in RPG

Unfortunately there is no solution at this time. The EBCDIC control characters used in the green screen environment have no specified visual representation in Unicode and it is left up to each operating system to decide how to render them. RD Powe...
over 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Not under consideration