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My ideas: RDi (Rational Developer for i)

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Add *EVENTF to CRTCMD

Creating a command from source does not currently produce results in the Error List view in RDi. This is because CRTCMD lacks support for the *EVENTF option. Add support for the *EVENTF option to CRTCMD so error output will display in RDi. At the ...
about 9 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Delivered

Nesting shortcuts (c-s-m & c-s-o)

The current function of the nesting shortcuts Ctrl-Shift-M and Ctrl-Shift-O will only work if the cursor is positioned on the IF/END or DO/ENDDO or SELECT/ENDSL statement. These two shortcuts should also allow positioning on the related ELSE or WH...
about 9 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Delivered

See variable bigger than 4,095 characters in RDI Debug

Green Screen debug allow you to do this: EVAL MyBigXML:C 65000. And you see the complete value of the field! Inside RDI, you can add a monitor varaible with "MyBigXML:C 65000" and it cuts off at 4,095 characters. Oh well, just use command line STR...
about 9 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Delivered

Include snippets in push to client

The push to client feature is a nice addition to reduce the work required when creating a new workspace, especially when upgrading to a new release (re-using a workspace between releases can cause issues so I always create a new one). However, thi...
about 9 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Delivered

Trim Leading Spaces when joining lines (alt-J)

Being able to join lines with alt-J is very nice. It would be preferable if the join would trim off leading spaces of what is being joined and possibly add a single space so the join doesn't but up directly against the last character of the line y...
about 9 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 8 Delivered

Make ctrl-f function the same way in both block and stream modes

Ctrl-f opens a find and replace window in Developer for Power Systems. The functionality for alt-a when that window is open is different in Block and Stream modes. If code is selected in block mode when alt-a is pressed, it stays selected. In stre...
about 9 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Delivered

Change ctrl-f to function like eclipse find

Ctrl-f currently opens the find and replace window in the LPEX editor and pre-populates the find block with the selected text, or the last find text if nothing is selected. This is close to, but different from the base eclipse functionality. It sh...
about 9 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Delivered

When Formatting RPG, don't change lines where indentation isn't adjusted

When formatting RPG source, all formatted lines are considered changed, even when indenting didn't need to be applied to a line. Use Case: This is causing all formatted lines to have a date changed of the current date which devalues the date chang...
about 9 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Delivered

Trim trailing spaces on open of source

When source is opened, quite often there are trailing spaces. I would like for source to not have trailing spaces on open, just like it trims trailing spaces on save. Use Case: When I open a source and want to jump to the end of a line of code, I ...
about 9 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Delivered

Context-sensitive help for embedded SQL

In embedded SQL source (e.g. SQLRPGLE) the F1 key does not pull up any relevant help pages for SQL you might want help with, but pulls up the generic help page for the free format line instead. Please change this so that pressing the F1 key in emb...
over 9 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 7 Delivered