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RDi (Rational Developer for i)

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Allow seamless Git integration with RDi

Make Git adoption in RDi seamless for RPG developers. RDi currently has iProjects which can be used to adopt Git, but iProjects operate on the premise of offline editing. Not all RPG developers are going to be editing offline. Use Case: Focus on a...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 7 Future consideration

RDI support for current MAC OS

Installation Manager is not signed to run on Mac OS Big Sur and Mac OS Monterey versions Use Case: Install RDI products on new Mac Computers. Update existing installations where the Operating System has been upgraded.
over 2 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Future consideration

Show true data type of parameters declared with *EXACT

When showing content assist, or in the Outline view, when displaying the prototype of a procedure, show the actual declared data type for the parameters declared with options(*EXACT). This keyword requires that we pass a variable declared EXACTLY ...
3 months ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Future consideration

LPEX highlighting of matching keywords/brackets

A lot of editors will visually highlight matching parentheses when the cursor is resting on one half of the matching items. It would be nice if the LPEX editor could provide the same for RPG code. Use Case: * Highlight matching parentheses* Highli...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 6 Future consideration

Show Current DSPF or PRTF Record Format In Editor

When working with a source file for a DSPF or PRTF, based on the cursor position, display the current record format in the editor. This would be similar to the option for ILE RPG, "Show current procedure or subroutine in editor" (location: Window&...
about 1 year ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Future consideration

RDi Live Parsing / Outline needs a better cache

Remote connection to IBM i server through VPN tunnel causes Live Parsing / Outline feature to slow down excessively. Update process to have a preference to refresh and a time for auto-refresh of the cache. When the time has not passed DO NOT check...
about 4 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 7 Future consideration

Import existing user defined options into PDM perspective

We are relatively new to RDi and have a lot of user defined options coded for the green screen version of PDM. RDi does have a PDM perspective but there is no way to bring in the pre-existing options already defined in the green screen PDM. Need t...
about 1 year ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Future consideration

From a SQLxxxLE source, a "SQL prompter" on SQL lines

From a SQLxxxLE source, a "SQL prompter" on SQL lines as we can have in SEU with the F4 function key Use Case: Helpfull to code SQL statements
about 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 9 Future consideration

Add keyboard shortcut: Navigate to next/previous DCL-PROC statement (bonus: position the DCL-PROC to top of window)

Example: In a module with 50 procedures being able to quickly bring the next or previous procedure to line 1 would be a time save. For those who flip monitors to a portrait view this would be more beneficial. Extending this behavior to BEGSR state...
6 months ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Future consideration

Collapse a section in RPG source.

Like in JavaScript or HTML source editors, in RPG I would like collapse a subroutine, a subprocedure, an IF - ENDIF and so on by cliking on symbol "-". Use Case: Like SEU command X.
over 8 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 8 Future consideration

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