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Edit copy members in the same editor window they are used in

It would be extremely useful and functional to be able to edit the included copy (/copy) members in the same editor where the main program is being edited.The ability to edit copy members by opening them directly from the main source is very conve...
4 days ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 0 Submitted

Hostname variable to be used when copying configuration items in the GUI

Currently if you copy configuration items that include a report detail (e.g Malware configuration) the Scan report title will include the source system name as text. This should populate as the correct host name on each target for the copy, otherw...
5 days ago in PowerSC 0 Submitted

AIX Security reporting tool

Since CIS Tool latest version (v4.x) dropped support for generating AIX security reports based on CIS AIX 7.x benchmark; There is currently NO tool, which would generate decent HTML security reports from AIX systems. And that is a HUGE gap in secu...
over 1 year ago in PowerSC 3 Planned for future release

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 ...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Future consideration

Seperating Access to Profile Editor

Currently there is one option to give an user rw rights. For all custom profiles or none. We have the need to be more granular. For instance: seperate it by operating system seperte it within an Operating system (by LPAR or hostname)
10 months ago in PowerSC 1 Submitted

Add capability of defining subgroups for Compliance page

For usability in large environments it would behelpfull to be able to create subgroups on the Compliance page. Here an example: Group: SAP - Sub-Group: SAP-Test SAP-QA SAP-Prod
9 months ago in PowerSC 1 Submitted

Start Offline checkbox on RDi startup.

Sometimes it happens the RDi after entering signon credentials hangs during startup for different reasons (e.g. display file source tab in update mode was left open when closing workspace) In many of such cases a problem can be resolved by setting...
3 months ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 0 Under review

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...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Future consideration

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.
about 2 months ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Future consideration

Remember previous user ids when setting service entry point

When setting up service entry points, use the same control for the user id & condition so that previously used values can be re-selected easily. Most of the other fields on the Set Service Entry point dialog allow selection of previously used ...
4 months ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Future consideration