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Template for RPF fixed

The templates can only be used with the free RPG code.Please add support for fixed RPG code. Or reintroduce snippet support, they were perfect!
about 1 year ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Future consideration

PowerVC to provide recovery options for PowerVC novalink managed hots

PowerVC HMC managed PowerVM hosts in error state can be cleaned up using powervc commands Novalink managed hosts do not have similar options
about 5 years ago in PowerVC 2 Future consideration

Column Heading for CPYTOIMPF

I had a client requesting an enhancement for column heading in cpyto/frmimpf. He wants to be able to import text or alias via the ADDCOLNAM parameter. He was expecting *SQL to give him the results but he was using a DDS file with text. He pointed ...
about 8 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Not under consideration

DB2 for i PTF services to use ESA configuration for internet access

SYSTOOLS.GROUP_PTF_CURRENCY and SYSTOOLS.GROUP_PTF_DETAILS are great tools to keep track of missing PTFs on a system. When running SQL statement against this view, there is an internet connection from the system to PSP documents. This is a direct ...
about 7 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Future consideration

Increase size of hover over box in RDI

When hovering over a variable in RDi (example RPG source) a box shows up containing the definition of the variable, however this box is too small to see the actual definition which requires pressing F2 and resizing it manually. Use Case: When hove...
about 4 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Planned for future release

BRMS NOCMTBDY option to be ignored for Q libraries

BRMS *NOCMTBDY save-while-active option should not drop Q* libraries as it becomes unusable. Instead, Q* libraries should still be included but *NOCMTBDY to be ignored. Use Case: Without the change, 1 backup done with *NOCMTBDY for *ALLUSR is requ...
about 4 years ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 5 Not under consideration

Offer Windows USB recovery media tool for the HMC

IBM only offer a Linux method of creating a USB bootable recovery image for the HMC (https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6454883). It would be good to have a media creation tool for Windows which can take the ISO recovery image and format the U...
about 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

Support sudo ldap on AIX

sudo-ldap is supported. I see various clients using it. It is in AIX Tools website: http://www.aixtools.net/index.php/sudo-ldap Looks like IBM AIX officially does not support sudo-ldap. The naming service is coming from LDAP and authentication fro...
about 5 years ago in AIX 3 Not under consideration

Add option to journal message content in a message queue

Add an option to journal a message queue, so that any and every messages is journaled, including the date and time and the content of the message.
about 2 years ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 1 Not under consideration

ACS Double byte character printing issue.

As users in our Asia Pacific locations are migrating from Client Access to ACS - they have noticed that when printing spool files from ACS (drag and drop - or downloading) some of the double byte characters are not showing up correctly. This reque...
about 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

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