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Quantify the source lines covered with numbers of time executed

Please add the number of times a line was executed. Use Case: I would use this number to search for ways to possibly improve my program code to see if I can reduce the number of times a line is executed.
almost 9 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Not under consideration

Quantify the source lines covered with time executed

Please add the total amount of time a line executed. Use Case: I would use this value to search for ways to possibly improve my program code to see if I can reduce the amount of time a line is executed.
almost 9 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Not under consideration

SLOW THROUGHPUT ON PPP CONNECTIONS

A Point-to-Point connection will experience slow throughput, when loop_back performance feature is turned ON.
almost 9 years ago in AIX 4 Not under consideration

Automatic conversion of ifx_loc_t (TEXT/BYTE) to/from ifx_lo_t (CLOB/BLOB)

Hello, Sorry for the IBM AIX product name but this is about IBM/HCL Informix and I can't find the product name in the list... We have legacy Informix ESQL/C code using ifx_loc_t to handle TEXT/BYTE columns. Customers want now to replace TEXT/BYTE ...
over 4 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

List of members description in table

How to get the list of members from a file in the "i Project" perspective. Same functionality as in the RSE perspective "Show In Table" This is for a list to see member descriptions. Use Case: User to see all descriptions of files in iProject pers...
over 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Not under consideration

PowerVC - VIOS shared storage pool - cluster stabilty enhancement

In our PowerVC 1.2.3.2 PoC environment, an unavailability of all vios shared storage pool resources occurred right after migration from PowerVC version 1.2.2.2. Please check above PMR for details.
about 9 years ago in PowerVC 2 Is a defect

JSON Output format in HMC API fpr RestAPI

Want to have the Option to get all Output from RestAPI in JSON Format rather than XML
about 9 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Not under consideration

PowerVC deploy to push complete hosts file for domain

IBM PowerVC will push host file update to a deployed VM to add the local host , it also allows updating VM with DNS, this feature is to push a fully populated hosts file to the target VM to bypass the need for a DNS
about 9 years ago in PowerVC 2 Not under consideration

Make RDi main product reopen on monitor it was shut down on when restarted

I have needs to have several different compile environments and I do not use multiple connections because I have to use tools in RDi that do not honor those connections properly. So, I often set up the library list for the environment I want and I...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Future consideration

Include field name specified on procedure prototype in content assist prompt.

We have over 3500 procedures in our service programs. All have the field name that should be used specified on the prototype parameters. It sure would be nice if these field names were included in the Content Assist and would be injected into the ...
about 9 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Not under consideration