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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

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...
about 2 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Integrate Fix Central in the PowerHA GUI

the availability to have an easier way to just see FixCentral information.IT would be an interesting feature to integrate this in the PowerHA GUI to have it on a single Management interface.
about 4 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Future consideration

Eliminate an IPL when changing system name

Changing the system name via the CHGNETA command requires an IPL for the system name change to take affect. I would like to see this requirement removed and have the change either become active immediately, or after restarting TCP/IP services. Use...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / Networking 3 Not under consideration

Remove ability to set 0777 permissions

I cannot think of a situation where this is needed, and I frequently come across this being set out of ignorance and laziness.
8 months ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

Add option to disable TLS 1.1 in sendmail

Security scans now flag TLS 1.1 support as a vulnerability. Sendmail allows all SSL versions and TLS 1.0 to be disabled. It needs to allow TLS 1.1 to be disabled as well.
over 1 year ago in AIX 1 Future consideration

Have GUI display, monitor, and report the RCCG names and states

Add a current status of the remote copy consistency groups to the GUI. VMRMDR sets up the VMRDG_6_ksysclu RCCG but does not display them in the GUI. If one gets of the RCCGs gets out of the “consistent_synchronized” state, then the customer tries ...
over 1 year ago in VM Recovery Manager 0 Submitted

GraalVM

With the new upcoming version 11 of Java and beyond, the "classic" script engines of JavaScript and Python will be discontinued. Nashor and Jython will disappear in favor of running Java, Python, JavaScript, and more on the common VM - the GraalVM...
about 4 years ago in IBM i / JAVA 3 Not under consideration

Remove backup of trace directory

BRMS backup is getting:CPFA09E Object in use. Object is /QIBM/UserData/OS400/ServiceAgent/trace/esa.log.0.lck.CPFA09E Object in use. Object is /QIBM/UserData/OS400/ServiceAgent/trace/esa.log.0.QSYS.QSRGENSE.QSROBJECWhile I could add these to a BRM...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 2 Future consideration

RDi CL formatting for declaring variables with defined storage

Add a preference to indent DCL statements for variables with STG(*DEFINED). Use Case: Declare an incoming parameter for a qualified object and then declare the object name and library. With the indentation it would look similar to the following: d...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Not under consideration

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