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    Free form KLIST to allow same field in multiple KLIST

    Allow Free Form version of KLIST with the same field in multiple key lists. For example displaying customer invoices I want to have a key list for Customer and Invoice # and another for Customer and Order Date and use the same field for customer i...
    over 5 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 10 Not under consideration

    Find/Replace (CTRL-F) regular expressions in RDP (LPEX) should match the help text "regular expression patterns".

    Using the regular expressions for find/replace in the LPEX editor on RDP is confusing. The help text clearly shows that the regular expression patterns should use the details described in the java.util.regex.Pattern javadoc but there are differenc...
    over 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Future consideration

    Enhance the POS keyword to support a location of *NEXT similar to OVERLAY.

    The OVERLAY keyword is required when its "field" parameter is the data structure name. However OVERLAY does not allow *NEXT for the position of that field, a hard-coded value must be specified otherwise it defaults to 1. The POS keyword support ov...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 4 Not under consideration

    support #pragma once in C/C++

    Please add support for the non-standard but widely support #pragma once. It's way more convinient than regular include guards and would make porting software easier.
    almost 3 years ago in IBM i / Languages - Other 2 Future consideration

    Change search error details to be RDi specific

    When using the search function (flashlight button) in RDi, if the search entered is something like this: &amp then you'll get an error. The error details starts talking about CL and REXX variables. It does, at the end, say to wrap the value in...
    about 11 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Not under consideration

    Add FC-NVMe N-Port ID virtualization support to Power9

    In October, 2022, IBM announced N-port ID virtualization client support for FC-NVMe which provides ANA support for storage that support it (like NetApp). AIX 7.3 TL1 delivers enhancements that can help you respond faster to business demands: Impro...
    almost 3 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

    Need to be able to use chfs to move filesystem to support internal snapshot when it is created to support an external snapshot

    As of now AIX wont support chfs to move filesystem to support internal snapshot when it is created to support an external snapshot. Customers need to recreate the filesystem if they want to use internal snapshot. Since with filesystem created for ...
    almost 3 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

    Support 3-way (or n-way) DASD mirroring

    We would like to be able to mirror DASD units across 3 (or more) physical devices, instead of just two. Use Case: Mirroring as it current exists only has protection against a single DASD device failure. While the probability of the mirrored unit f...
    over 8 years ago in IBM i / Storage 4 Not under consideration

    OBJECT_LOCK_INFO() table function which accepts library name, object name, and object type - returns list of locks on that object

    This is very similar to the OBJECT_LOCK_INFO view, but it can target a specific object similar to WRKOBJLCK command. It should be able to return the locks for the object much more quickly than using the view.
    almost 3 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 4 Functionality already exists

    Need Working mt Comand That Actually Gives Tapes Status Information

    Like EVERY other UNIX/LINUX out there, we need a working 'mt' command that actually returns the status of the tape drive. 'mt status' should tell us that the tape drive is: 1) Loaded or Unloaded 2) Write protected or Not 3) Tape position (at begin...
    over 5 years ago in AIX 1 Future consideration

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