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Add ability to select compare tool to use

Add the ability to select which compare tool - LPEX or text - to use within RDp. The compare to each other always brings up the Text Compare.1) select two members in an RSE filter2) the compare with only allows ?each other? this is OK.3) There sho...
almost 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Not under consideration

Compare to file should be available from the Remote Systems view

Create consistency between the LPEX editor and RSE views when it comes to Compare tooling:1) Compare to file should be available from RSE View2) Compare options should be available from the open source in the LPEx editor other then from the Edit g...
almost 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 7 Not under consideration

Allow multiple definitions in a Dcl-s statement

A very usefull future I found in other languages is multiple variable definition in one line of code: Dcl-s a b c int(10); is clearly faster and shorter than: Dcl-s a int(10);Dcl-s b int(10);Dcl-s c int(10); Use Case: nd
over 4 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 1 Not under consideration

Add WPAR names to ps output in snap tool

Please add the @ sign to the 'ps -ef' gathered in a snap (-k flag). Currently WPAR processes show up with an ID of +ID as in +0. It is more useful to see the wpar name as well as the PID inside the wpar.
over 8 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

PowerHA Stop After Dependency WITHOUT failover behavior modification

Explanation:The current Stop After dependency modifies behavior on failover. Take for example if RG1 must stop after RG2. Then, if RG1 fails over, RG2 will be bounced under the current dependency logic. I would like a dependency where RG1 must sto...
over 4 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Under review

Merge tool for LPEX editor

Extend the LPEX editor to have diff and merge capabilities. Use Case: * Select two source members, and see within the editor where those two versions differ.* Apply changes from one member to another.
over 8 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Not under consideration

Several warnings when shutting down a Power-System

When a LPAR is selected on a Power-system, the selected Hardware (Power-system) is still active to operations, like "Power Off".In our unit, it happened twice that the operator wanted to shutdown a LPAR, and unfortunately shut down the whole syste...
over 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 4 Not under consideration

Collapse the Find String results in RDI with Ctrl -

When doing Find String in RDI and get a lot of results, everything is expanded. In order to highlight and do another Find String on them I have to manually collapse all of them. Would be nice if Ctrl - could Collapse and Ctrl + would expand them. ...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Not under consideration

change standard name of mail sender : username.hostname@domainname

we would like to have standard mail sender like :username.hostname@domainnameinstead of :username@hostname.domainname
over 4 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

MMY: Slow System

1. AIX 7.1 has implemented the feature that supports thread level locale, AIX 6.1 doesn't have this feature. 2. Because of this feature, there is some performance penalty on the locale APIs like isdigit.
almost 9 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

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