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POWER mashine system location sync for HMC

in the HMC for POWER machine it is possible to define a "System location" under general setting in the machine profile, unfortunately this field is not synced between the HMCs in case of a redundant environment. Please sync the "System location" b...
about 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

CMC to be integrated with Capacity Planning Tool

Customer is requesting for the CMC visuals to be integrated with CPT
over 1 year ago in Cloud Management Console 1 Under review

Retrieve AA macro result by SQL

Currently, the AA macro from STRSST were not able to retrieve by CL command or SQL. it is not possible to make automation / monitoring program. Hope ibm can develop API or SQL that we can retrieve the value.
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Not under consideration

Highlight and or color parens

I'd like RDI to highlight or colorize matching parens. When nesting BIF's this can be a real useful feature when debuging and understanding code. Use Case: Debgugging, or changing code where multiple parens are used. Here is an example of a line o...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Future consideration

VIOS - NPIV Adapters: Active WWPN Switch

It would be awesome if there would be a possibility to switch the active WWPN online. Just a command which switches the active WWPN.
almost 7 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 1 Not under consideration

Allow RPG column sensitive cut and paste into snippets

When custom snippets are created to be used with RPG source by cutting and pasting from correct templates and variables are added to replace the template input, the snippet does not correctly space keyword parameter lines in fixed format lines (li...
about 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Not under consideration

RSE Merge Like WRKMBRPDM Option 55 of PDM

Want RSE to have a Merge feature to go along with the Compare feature. Have it work like WRKMBRPDM Option 55 of PDM. Use Case: Before we move something up to Production, we compare(CMPM) the test program with production program. Check to see if co...
about 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 6 Not under consideration

STRDBG can not show values for arrays that are indexed by (*)

When using STRDBG to debug a RPG program there is a problem when you want to display an array that is indexed by (*). For example this program:D nbr s 10i 0 dim(10) C eval nbr(*) = 1234 C eval *INLR = '1' C return If you put the cursor on the fiel...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 5 Future consideration

AIX Host kerberization utilities to join domain does not exist

AIX OS should have proper tools to join AIX machine to Active Directory (LDAP for authorization and Kerberos for authentication). Other OS like RHEL7 have realm join feature. 1) Creates computer object in AD2) Sets SPN for computer object. 3) Cuts...
about 5 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

Add CPF3C29 checking to the DTAARA keyword in RPG IV

The DTAARA keyword in RPG IV does not honor IBM i object names. It allows users to create data areas with upper/lower case characters in the object name. There is currently only one user-facing interface that allows deleting of mixed-case object n...
11 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 2 Future consideration

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