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Please open this RFE for IBM Developer for Z or System I which is managed by the IBM I group not Rational ADC (part of DevOps Automation). Cannot move this Idea to the correct workspace, please open it under IBM i - RDi.
Have to agree with the other comments, much less friction to be able to use an industry standard issue tracker
I have used midrange.com as a way to interact with RDi developers at IBM and am grateful for them monitoring the site for issues. But having a place to go specifically to add RDi enhancenments and bug fix requests would be appreciated.
In my organisation, I am the hoop my colleagues need to jump through! I'm a full time developer and (very) part time IBM admin, and I confess that it takes me too much time to translate bug reports from my colleagues into bug reports for IBM. I have two bugs I need to create 'smallest working' test cases for right now, but things are so busy that I haven't done it yet. We're a small group, and each of us wears many hats. Admin work has taken a back seat to 'real' work. Who knows how many small shops are in a similar situation, where bugs are known and (as yet) unreported? Opening up bug reports to the wider RDi community would be very helpful to us overworked small shop programmer/admins!
As a long time user of RDi I have to agree with Jack. Ofttimes the developers will respond to suggestions on informal channels but to justify some enhancements they need formal external feedback and the current process of RFEs and APARs is just too laborious. APARs particularly because the developer discovering the bug often will not have the required IBM credentials to open an APAR and has to jump through hoops in their own organization to get them. Most don't bother and so bugs go unreported. This is a problem beyond just RDi and can often apply to compiler bugs etc.