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Different Systems grouped in Taskbar ACS

Hi, we want to seperate our different Machines in different symbols in the Taskbar in Windows 10. We have 3 symbols, one for the Austrian System, a second one for the Hungarian System and the third for our testing machine. When i click the first s...
about 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

Relaxed string manipulation BIF's that respect SBCS, UCS and UTF-8.

Today we have nice features where we can get portions of character strings. However, especially with support of UTF-8, the number of bytes is not always equal to the number of characters. Also - trying to extract ranges of characters not within th...
about 2 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 3 Not under consideration

Creating virtual ports as a way to bypass physical port level validation

Live Partition Mobility for NPIV clients requires that both (active and inactive) WWPNs for each virtual Fibre Channel adapter must have been zoned to the exact same storage port WWN on the switch/SAN and must have been defined to the storage arra...
about 6 years ago in PowerVM 0 Not under consideration

PoweVC portgroups

Dear team We need to have the option to specify multiple port groups in a storage template instead of one port goup or any also in the default storage template we need to have the option to specify a port group or multiple port groups to be used i...
about 4 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

RDi: Fix block indentation feature

Issue 1 When indenting a block of code by highlighting the block and then pressing the Tab key, all of the selected lines are indented as expected, however, if the cursor is on a subsequent line (i.e. at the left hand margin of the next line) that...
about 2 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Is a defect

BRMS Report Bundle Option

We would like to have the option when running maintenance or using the STRRCYBRM ASPDEV((*LCL *ALL)) to bundle the selected or all reports. Use Case: STRMNTBRMPrint expired media report . . . *YES Print version report . . . . . . *EXPMEDPrint medi...
about 8 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 3 Not under consideration

Manage dates before 1970 in the ILE web service client

As described here http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/software/i/iws/faq/index.html#primary4, the web service client can't manage dates before 1970. Improving the management dates for of compatibility with the RPG date type : 0001-01-01 to 9999-12...
about 8 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 4 Future consideration

Force Outline update when verifying prior to verify beginning

It is annoying to Ctrl-Shift-V to verify code and find that DSPF's, PRTF's, and other file objects & definitions added to the program cause a lot of errors in the error list window. If Verify performed an outline update prior to actually verif...
about 2 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Future consideration

Implement RPG/CL Documentation Generation within RDi

Currently RPG and CL do not offer a common way for a developer to put comments/documentation within the code and then have documentation be generated. This is something that other languages offer, such as JAVADocs. I would like RDi to be able to u...
about 8 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Not under consideration

aixpert check_report.txt rotation

aixpert has always had a check_compliance argument (-c). Among other areas, such as stdout, aixpert also appends results to the file /etc/security/aixpert/check_report.txt. This file "grows and grows" and has the potential to fill the / (hd4) file...
about 6 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration