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New Navigator for i - textured chart support like the heritage Navigator

In the Heritage Navigator - Investigate Data charts, I used textured bar graph a lot and I find this useful feature missing from the New Navigator. Please deliver it soon. Thanks.
over 1 year ago in IBM i / System Management 1 Not under consideration

Create a resource role in Cloud Management Console which only shows assigned lpar resources.lpar and not the managed system

Create a resource role in Cloud Management Console which only shows assigned lpar resources instead of the capacity and usage of the entire frame.
over 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

Compare to file on "Open Member In Editor" screen

On the "Open Member In Editor" Screen, in addition to "Open for Edit" and "Open for browse", there should also be "Open for compare". This is opened via the default shortcut of CTRL-ALT-Q. Alternatively, it could have it's own window instead. This...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Not under consideration

Power VC - AD Integration For Projects and Roles

Power VC. Goal to bind Power VC to AD Then Create AD groups and bind two primary roles: VM requester vs full admin to AD groups. And do this by and for independant projects within powervc The documentation here https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledg...
about 6 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

RPG LE Level Break Subroutines for Free-format

We need RPG LE level break subroutines for use in free-format so that fixed-format C-specs do not need to be coded at all for level break processing. Currently I not only have to code a fixed-format F-spec and I-spec in order for the RPG Cycle to ...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 8 Not under consideration

"Open Declaration" should actually open the declaration

When doing a "Open Declaration" on an externally defined procedure or field, RDi simply jumps to the line in the existing source where the procedure or field is imported. This is the easy way out and is not very helpful. Use Case: In the case of c...
about 9 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Not under consideration

Search all spool files in a output queue

We have a output queue which contains a spool file for each customer order we receive. We occasionally need to search those spool files for a customer number to see the order at the time it was originally sent. I currently go through each spool fi...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / System Management 4 Future 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

Create custom groups in enhanced interface where we can specify filters as in classic interface

We would like to be able to do the same as we can in the Classic interface as descriped here: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/POWER7/p7ha1/user-definedgroups.htm​
about 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

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