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IBM PowerVC hybrid LDAP support

Openstack defines support for hybrid LDAP support documented herehttps://github.com/SUSE-Cloud/keystone-hybrid-backendthis allows isolate of work roles to unique ldap servers
about 9 years ago in PowerVC 2 Not under consideration

Templates should work outside of /free section

Templates doesn't work outside of /free but they should. And snippets are no substitution for templates. Use Case: Template example I would like to have outside of /free: \rev ${date} ${user} Task: ${task} ${cursor}
over 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Not under consideration

Push To Client - Save/deploy folder/files

Most 3rd-party add-on tools for Eclipse (RDi) store their configurations in one or more XML files. It would be great if we could specify certain files and/or folders that should be saved by Push To Client and deployed to the same relative path for...
about 9 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Not under consideration

Push To Client not saving Key Bindings

The Push-To-Client feature is not saving customization to the Key Bindings in RDi 9.5. Use Case: Push-to-Client is a great feature for simplifying the roll-out of standard configuration and key bindings would be a natural extension.
about 9 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Is a defect

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

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

Orale OS Audit Script define multiple destination directories

We are in process of integrating oracleOsAudit log in Qradar, refer to this documentation (https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS42VS_DSM/com.ibm.dsm.doc/t_DSM_guide_Oracle_OSAudit_cfg.html), we have downloaded and configured perl script o...
over 4 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

Perfromance Improvement for the AIX 7.1 commands grep, wc and sort in UTF-8 locale

Customer reported slower performance with UTF-8 locale, for scriptsparsing UTF-8 text with wc, sort, grep.
over 9 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

Move selected (highlighted) block using the TAB key

While creating or modifying code (any language) where indentation is a good practice to visually structure the body of the entire program or scrip, this feature will facilitate the opportunity to massive move a block at once and not line per line ...
over 9 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Not under consideration

Sorting in NIM

In NIM all (?) listings/outputs of clients, resources and so on (also and especially in smitty) are not sorted, which makes it difficult when having many entries.
over 9 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration