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Add the table's column text description to the Outline view.

When viewing a program's opened files/columns, within the Outline view (under the "File" category), it would be very convenient to be able to see each column text description, defined by the given table. This could show up directly within the Outl...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Future consideration

NGINX on IBMi baisc authentication support for system profiles

IBM Apache HTTP server supports PasswdFile %%SYSTEM%% for basic authentication. Would be great if Nginx on IBMi basic authentication also had support this
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 0 Future consideration

Command / SQL service to retrieve specific IPL attributes

Increased use of flash copy requires changes to IPL attributes before the copy has been made, to control the behaviour of the cloned partition. These changes need to be reverted on the parent partition to avoid unwanted behaviour at IPL. Althoug...
about 2 years ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 2 Future consideration

Add keep alive for Service Entry Point port

Add a keep alive to the service entry point preferences so that 3825 is not timed out. Use Case: In this scenario, the IBM i has keep alive for ports 8475 and 8476. The debug job seems to be staying alive with the login keep alive action, but the ...
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Future consideration

Extend WRKJOB (or new SQL service) to show open descriptors of a job

When analyzing issues some times I must also check how many descriptors a job has in use. In case of f_type VNODE I will also check the IFS path. To get these information I must execute the following statement: CALL PGM(QP0FPTOS) PARM('*DUMPLFS' &...
about 2 years ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 3 Future consideration

Add round() function to ILE C/C++ (math.h)

We need to use the round() function in ILE C/C++. Currently it is not included in the header math.h. The function is from the C99 standard. z/OS has also support for it: https://www.ibm.com/docs/pl/zos/2.4.0?topic=functions-round-roundf-roundl-rou...
10 months ago in IBM i / Languages - Other 2 Future consideration

Possibility to configure the * ADMIN4 instance with SSL

Possibility to configure the * ADMIN4 instance with SSL volume_up Use Case: In GUI
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 2 Future consideration

IWS web services PJ QZRCSRVS additional logging

Currently there is no easy way to correlate a PJ QZRCSRVS to a specific web service. Enhance web services identification by adding additional logging to PJ QZRCSRVS. Add a message in the job log with the IWS Web Server and Web Service information ...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 2 Future consideration

ACS1.1.9.0 has tabs for runsql scripts. need to keep results for each tab

added in 1.1.9.0 is tabs for runsql scripts. while I can run different scripts for each tab I can only have one results pane. We need to have a results window for each tab.
over 2 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Future consideration

Ctrl / behavior enhancement request

I would like to request an enhancement to RDi for the Ctrl / and Ctrl \ key functions so that they either perform the "new" way which is consistent with Eclispe, or, the keystrokes perform as they did prior to the installation of Version: 9.6.0.12...
about 2 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Future consideration

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