IBM Power Ideas Portal


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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...
over 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.
over 9 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Is a defect

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

FOM Design Change Request

In the event of FOM related failures, current standard recovery procedures are causing longer service outages, which have a greater impact on business. For banking customers, all FC adapters are redundant by FOM, so in case of failure immediate ta...
over 4 years ago in AIX 2 Future consideration

"Change User Interface Settings? option is available only in classic GUI, can we have it in Enhanced GUI?

The web page https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/HW4M4/p8ha1/changeuserinterfacesettings.htm says he can customize the user interface settings. He would like to change the default views to this above, using Enhanced GUI with V9.
over 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Not under consideration

Making an AIX full-system partition bootable on systems with IFL enabled cores

A full-system partition created on a Power9 box that has IFL enabled cores is unbootable. Leads to a B700F121 error. On Power8 a simple chsyscfg command allowed for reducing the CPU count on a full system partition profile, to exclude the IFL enab...
almost 5 years ago in Power Systems Design 2 Not under consideration

NPE when prompting CL

After installing 9.6.0.8 we get errors when prompting (F4) inside CL Programs. See attached stacktraces Use Case: Programming CL
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Is a defect

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

vscsi mapping - IBMi to IBMi

Possibility to create vscsi mapping between two IBM i LPAR's. Currently command "pvmctl scsi create" showing only parameters where vscsi server ( parent ) is VIOS and vscsi client ( lpar ) is IBMi. I'm asking for option which allow me to set paren...
almost 5 years ago in PowerVM NovaLink 1 Future 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

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