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One location for software downloads

IBM AIX is a great product. But most users install software on their machines that is supplied by IBM but does not come with AIX. Examples are sudo, openssh, java, lsof, Python3, perl etc. Many of which are from the AIX Web Download Pack (https://...
3 months ago in AIX 0 Submitted

RPG Source compare for *functional* differences

As many of us are doing these days, we are converting our old RPG 3, RPG ILE, etc. to 100% free RPGLE (**free) and making changes in VSCode. This is good. However, When you have to Peer Code Review your co-workers changes, it is extremely difficul...
22 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 0 Submitted

RDI: Possibility to force an update of the image in Screen Designer

When editing a DDS screen file in the Screen Designer we have the possibility to switch between a Design and a Source window. So far so good. Unfortunately it happens that when changes are made to the source and you switch back to the Design windo...
24 days ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 0 Submitted

RDI: Remember last Filter view > Date

When right clicking in a source and select Filter view > Dateit allways shows the current date and less than.In almost 100% of cases I change it to a lesser date for example 251001 and search for greater than. This works OK. I can see what has ...
24 days ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 0 Submitted

New command CPYMSGD

The command CPYMSGD shold copy a message description with all attributes such as message data fields, formatting information (&N, &P, &B) and reply attributes.
2 months ago in IBM i / Application Development 0 Submitted

The x86 image should also be provided for Nutanix, as more customers migrate from VMWare to Nutanix

Flexible IBM Power solutions for the customer
25 days ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

Allow checking multiple defined conditions with one /IF compiler directive

Checking multiple defined conditions is cumbersome - if a part of code should only be combined when two conditions are defined, one has to use nested /IF directives: /IF DEFINED(condition1) /IF DEFINED(condition2) // code only compiled when condit...
4 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 0 Submitted

Make text copyable in RDi property dialogs

Make text copyable in RDi property dialogs so it is easier to copy & paste information such as job names, output queue, etc. Candidate dialogs: Job properties, debug properties, etc.
25 days ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 0 Submitted

Enhance Dcl-Enum to be multilevel as Dlc-Ds

Dcl-Enum is very usefull but could be even better if provides multi-level definition as Dcl-Ds: Dcl-Enum Errors qualified; Dcl-Enum Severity; Info 'I'; Halt 'H'; End-Enum; Dcl-Enum Actions; Abort 'A'; Exit 'E'; End-Enum; End-Enum; Select RetCode; ...
4 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 0 Submitted

Live Partition Mobility: Allow overrides of CPU and LPAR ID on target CEC

For hosted environments, moving a partition from P9 to P10, for example, is often not at CPU-for-CPU but at CPW-for-CPW (e.g. 15000 CPW = 1 CPU on a 9009-22a but not on a 9105-22a). And LPAR ID is automagically assigned.This is counter-productive,...
8 months ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 4 Submitted

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