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Licensing for application hosting

Problem description: in a hosting environment, multiple tenants may be allocated to the same partition. With current license management, it isnot possible to define user licenses per tenant because the product definition & feature code(s) is a...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Install and Upgrade and Licensing 2 Not under consideration

Need API to invalidate a license key

Using the license management APIs QLZAGENK & QLZAREQ, once a permanent key is provided to acustomer (expiration date *NONE), there is no way to retract that key when a customer wants totransfer their software license to a new CPU. The result i...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Install and Upgrade and Licensing 5 Not under consideration

Add procedure documentation to content assist

The documentation of a procedure should be displayed right next to the list of possible entries offered by content assist (ctrl+space) for the current code. Use Case: Procedure documentation may look like this: /** * \brief Create JSON Object * * ...
over 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 10 Not under consideration

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

Filter for I Projects Navigator

We have many Ibm i projects with many source files/members, we have to compare the sources with each other. It's not easy to select two source member in a very long list of source files and members.It should be very useful a filter box in I Projec...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Not under consideration

add the ability to specify scope of static variable in RPGLE sub-procedure

Request to allow developer to specify the scope of static variable in RPGLE sub-procedure. Currently, static variable has an Activation Group scope. I would like to request adding a parameter to the static keyword that will allow developer to spec...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 3 Not under consideration

Distingusihing between Members open for edit and for browse in LPEX editor

When multiple members are opened in the LPEX editor pane, some in edit mode, some in browse mode, you cannot tell at a glance which is which. You have to click on the tab and look for the BROWSE term in the edit area. The request is to have someth...
over 10 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Not under consideration

Automated FS cleanup on VIOS (skulker, etc)

From our original PMR (37280,101,616) regarding automated FS cleanup on VIOS: "Automated cleanup of unused files can be achieved via skulker. But this is not avaiable on VIOS in padmin environment. Also,it would need to be modified to suite VIOS's...
about 9 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 4 Not under consideration

Divide the RPG manual into a fixed format and a free format version

For many years the RPG manual have described both the fixed format and the free format. As the years has passed the free format version of RPG has been more and more enhanced where the fixed format is more "steady". Now I feel that the manual is g...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 3 Not under consideration

i Access Client Version 1.1.7.1 and prior- display issue

Display issue. See attachment for screenshots. Use Case: See attachment with screenshot for details.
over 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Is a defect

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