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Enable drag/drop field text in Screen Designer

Enable ability to drag and drop field text from Field Table to screen in design mode. Use Case: DDS DesignDesign tabDisplay file creationPrinter file creation
over 10 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Not under consideration

iAccess SQL when saving results give the result the name of the SQL script instead of Untitled

At first extra typing and second to have the results the same name as the script.
over 1 year ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

Add skguard count to DB Health Center as System or Environment Limit

It turned out that hitting the maximum number of entries in skguard causes a major outage as no sqe optimization can take place. This requires an IPL to resolve. It seems reasonable to add the number of entries in skguard to DB Health Center to av...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Not under consideration

Include linux screen command in VIOS

Hello, We would like that VIOs support a similar command as the screen command in the linux world. Thank you OD
almost 7 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 2 Not under consideration

"Show in Table" view as provided in RSE needed for iProjects

In Remote Systems Explorer ther is an option to show all Sourcemembers or Library Objets in a table view. Use Case: his view is a substitute for the old PDM view which is urgently needed when browsing the short PGM names by looking at the Text Att...
over 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Not under consideration

Need possibility to do remote actions for multiple sourcemembers at once

We need the possibility to compile / use remote actions for more than ojust one sourcemember at once.The isea ist select multiple mebers and do the remote action or to select the complete sourcefile to do te remote action for all members Use Case:...
over 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Not under consideration

SSP Tier aware

Please make PowerVC be SSP tier aware, and configurable in storage templates. Give us the ability to configure tiers to be associated with projects.
about 7 years ago in PowerVC 2 Future consideration

Converge the IBM i operating system with PASE (or AIX) and produce one merged operating system that is primarily Linux-based but can run IBM i code and databae

It is clear that IBM i is being "enhanced" by simply added more and more open source and SQL functions, and no a lot of anything else. I suggest IBM start a project to combine both Linux/AIX/PASE and IBM i as was done with S/36 SSP and S/38 CPF ba...
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 2 Not under consideration

Provide migration to CCSID(1208) / UTF-8 as QCCSID system value CCSID.

To provide a more globalized environment, it would be fantastic if IBM i migrated to UTF-8 as its the default/primary CCSID. That way programs and data written would work and appear the same everywhere, by default. I'm advocating a similar migrati...
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 2 Not under consideration

Change RSCT scripts from ksh to sh/bash

Hi Team, SUSE has announced that it will end support for ksh in SLES 12 on March 2022 as per the link https://www.suse.com/releasenotes/x86_64/SUSE-SLES/12-SP1/.Many of the TSAMP and RSCT scripts are still using ksh e.g. getsadata, samreset, SAMAd...
over 3 years ago in AIX 3 Not under consideration

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