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Media reporting

Media reporting: I would like BRMS to report location mismatch where the BRMS location and the actual device location are different. Use Case: This would help my operators know where volumes actually are and better understand when they need to tak...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 3 Not under consideration

RDI LPEX Editor add Signature Feature to COBOL Source Members

In the LPEX editor for RPG, you have already implemented the 'signature' option so the user may specify a text string to be inserted into each line of a source member added/modified by the user. Can you please implement this same feature for COBOL...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Future consideration

In Db2 Web Query SCHEDULER, enhance screen to allow Execution ID to be changed.

Use case for this is DeveloperA makes a report and places on schedule. Later, it is determined that the USER-ID executing the report (i.e DeveloperA) must change. Perhaps, when report and schedule moved from TEST to PROD, or User has moved to new ...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / Db2 Web Query 5 Not under consideration

From a library, a CHGCURLIB option

In RSE, from a library, an option to change this library on the current library Use Case: Currently the option "Change Current Library" is only available on the libray list. It would be usefull to have it on a library
over 14 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Not under consideration

In the "Commands Log" view, a "Display second level message" option

As we can do on the DSPJOBLOG screen, the ability in the "Commands Log" view to position the cursor on a message and pressing the F1 key to get the message ID and second level text Use Case: Usefull to get the second level message as we can do in ...
over 14 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 6 Not under consideration

Allow embedding of DB2 Web Query reports in other webpages

Currently DB2 Web Query sends X-Frame-Options SAMEORIGIN in the header which prevents embedding reports in other webpages if the host and port does not match. There is curenlty no way in DB2 Web Query to modify this behavior. To maitain security p...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / Db2 Web Query 3 Not under consideration

A "copy special" option within Run SQL Scripts which will copy your selection as a single line

This would be useful for copying a query from Run SQL Scripts and pasting into a CL program RUNSQLSTM command for example. The query formatting in Run SQL Scripts is very useful for working with the query, but sometimes we need to condense the que...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Future consideration

Have the ability to change the login retries and if possible the suspended time of users.

The default login retries for a user are 3 and then they are suspended for 5 minutes then the lock is released again. These settings do not meet our security standards. We would like to have ability to change the login retries and if possible the ...
over 7 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Planned for future release

Allow PowerVC to reflect Profile Changes made to the LPAR profile on the HMC.

This will be very helpful when changing any profile configuration on an LPAR. From what we have seen this is not working today. also when changes are made to a LPAR profile you have to unmanage and re-manage the LPAR in powervc. this can be extrem...
over 3 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

RGZPFM While Active, show jobs locking object in the job log

When performing a RGZPFM with ALWCANCEL(*YES), if the job completes but cannot return the deleted space due to the file being locked by other jobs, it would be useful if a message was issued in the RGZPFM's joblog, stating that jobs were locking t...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Not under consideration