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RDi (Rational Developer for i)

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Open /COPY member from outline

There are times when the outline is not everything from a copy member and I need to review the internals of that source. It would be nice to have an option to know the outline item is from a copy member and have the option to open that member. Use...
about 3 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Delivered

RDi: Error list does not position to correct source line if any source lines have been added or deleted

System: RDi for RPGActor: User needing defective feature to be fixed RDi currently provides the ability to quickly position to compiler errors by double-clicking the error in the Error List. Issue: If you modify your source code by adding or delet...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Delivered

Unreadable Text when activating the "Dark" theme in RDi

When the theme in RDi is changed to "Dark", there are some text parts of the RDi that are not readable anymore. There is no option in the preferences to set the color of the affected unreadable text.The affected parts that I could find by now are:...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 6 Delivered

Create a feature to effectively export/import preferences

The existing export/import of preferences in Eclipse is inadequate for Rational Developer for Power Systems Software features. Currently with the product, when you import in a PRF file, you get little to no customizations duplicated from the exist...
over 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 9 Delivered

Enhancement to Show Block Nesting for Else and When

Currently Else and When are ignored when Show Block Nesting is requested. Else and When could easily be shown also with a horizontal line connecting to the innermost vertical line. The horizontal line would (should) never need to go beyond the inn...
about 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 7 Delivered

Fix the Help system to use the information available

If I press F1 with an op-code highlighted in the editor (or even if it is not highlighted) it should show me the op-code in question - not a list that I have to scroll though. It works this way in fixed form - it is crazy that it doesn't in /Free....
about 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Delivered

Option to suppress individual RDI "not used" markers

RDi marks variables that aren't used in the left margin, the right margin and a blue squiggle under the variable. The mouse-over tells you that the item isn't used. There are times when you want to permanently suppress that for a given variable in...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Delivered

Filter RPG view by unused variables

At version 9.6 of RDi we can see which variables are not in use in various ways. Add to the "Filter view" context-menu option the ability to select "Unused" Use Case: With the current support I still need to scroll through a source member, looking...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 6 Delivered

Additional information in outline/content assist

Include the optional, yet often-used, "name" space on the D-spec for prototyped parameters in the outline and content assist. Many programmers put descriptive names on those prototypes to identify the purpose of the parameter; carrying it into the...
about 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 9 Delivered

Compare enhancement: side-by-side with color

I have seen 2 different compares within RSE (Remote System Explorer). One of them is a side-by-side comparison and the other has color, but is not side-by-side. What I am requesting is both in the same compare, either similar to or exactly like th...
about 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 9 Delivered