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Outline doesn't show all the information of a file

When opening a the source code of a RPG-Program, sometimes not all the information is shown in the outline. For example the subprocedures are not shown. Seems to be an error and the log of RDP shows an Index out of bound exception.See an example a...
almost 11 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Is a defect

PowerVC - zone update to CISCO switches

Customer would like zone updates to cisco switches to be staggered and delayed.PowerVC when creating zones for storage will force a zone update, On Cisco switches that may cause an outage to all storage impacted by the zone.The customer has redund...
over 5 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

SNMP Storage OID 32bit limitation on greater than 16 TB

SNMP OID not showing correct information due to limitation of being a 32bit integer var.hrStorageSize.15 = 421265408
over 5 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

Application diagram for CLLE: don't ignore commands inside other command such as IF ELSE MONMSG SBMJOB

The application diagram shows calls from a CLLE member. However these calls are detected only when the CALL command is the main command. If the call is inside a IF, ELSE, MONMSG, SBMJOB, it is not shown.For instance in member MENU isPGM dcl &o...
almost 11 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Not under consideration

Use column comment/label instead of column name in Data Table view

Current Data Table view is using column name in the table header. While in Green Screen strsql will display column comment or label as the header. If Data Table view could use column comment/label in the table header that will be very helpful. The...
almost 11 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Not under consideration

Background IBM i search to populate Search Results view as search progresses

Since version 8.5.1 we can now run the IBM i search in background and work on other things.However the Search Results view is updated only at the end of the search. I'd like it to update it as the search progresses. Sometimes when searching, we ar...
almost 11 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Not under consideration

Make hairline cursor a preference - always on

I would like to not have to turn on the 'hairline cursor' function each time I load a source member into the LPEX editor. It would be nice if I could set that as a preference so that it will always be on. Use Case: This feature would be used in LP...
about 11 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 7 Not under consideration

Netboot Disk selection tool

We have disk system over 2000.When perform network booting.Many time spend for disk selection.When Disk selection menu, 6-next,6-next......We want keyword search tool .
over 5 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

PowerVC support for Brocade LSAN (FC routing)

Within IKEA cloud (and automation) track there are systems (VM´s) that use storage from 2 different sites (different clusters). Today LSAN is configured for achieving this.
over 5 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

ACS???????????????????????

ACSのSQL Scriptsにてデータ表示後、コピーをするとハング状態となる。IBM開発側にて再現しており、「ACSを利用する際に、サイズの大きなファイルから一度にすべてのデータを要求するとディスクアクセスが大量発生するため、ユーザーインターフェースがロックされってしまうのは仕様です。将来的には仕様変更が検討されていますが、現時点では予定などは目処が立っておりません。」との回答あり。
over 5 years ago in PowerVC 1 Not under consideration