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My votes: RDi (Rational Developer for i)

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Accept %CHECKx and %TRIMx BIFS in CL in RDP

I use RDP for CL development as well as RPG. Recent Technology Refresh PTFs have made available the %CHECKx and %TRIMx BIFS. These are flagged as errors in the editor. Those are the specific examples I can think of at this point. I guess in a broa...
over 11 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Delivered

Improve the formatting of free form SQL

It would be a good idea to improve the formatting of the free form SQL.This is the result of the formatting performed by RDi: exec sql select * into :dsreginv :nullinds from json_table (:jsonresponse, '$' columns (internalid char(100) path '$.Inte...
11 months ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Delivered

Hover : exclude comments from beeing shown on definitions

Actually the hover function shows comments that the editor thinks may be relevant to a definition. It picks up any comment lines immediately preceding the item being defined.It should be possible to stop that, for example by inserting one/two blan...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Delivered

Support RPGLE hyperlink for procedures and subroutines

The new hyperlink functionality added in 8.5.1 allows to goto a variable definition from one of its references in the code. I'd like that support to be extended to procedures and subroutines.I know that go to definition function already exists wit...
almost 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 6 Delivered

Rational Developer for i Keepalive for Debug Server

For Debug Server started using the command STRDBGSVR the Keep Alive on its port (3825) is never sent.See case TS008748689 Use Case: We found that despite any value set on CHGTCPA TCPKEEPALV parameter the QB5ROUTER "debug server router function" se...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Delivered

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...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Delivered

Hover text for record formats shows file name

Hover text has been added to RDi which provides dynamic cross referencing. For example, when the cursor is placed over a file name, the declaration is shown. I would like to request a similar function for record formats so that when the cursor is ...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Delivered

Always make Run SQL Scripts available, not just when in SQLRPGLE source

Being able to access Run SQL Scripts in RDi is great. But it'd be better if I didn't have to open a SQLRPGLE source to do so. Use Case: I use SQL to query data quite a lot and it's not always related to when I work on SQLRPGLE source.
over 8 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Delivered

Make Outline support compile-time expressions in keywords

The RDi outline does not recognize a compile-time expression within the data type definition. Example: varchar( %len( otherField ) ) Since the format of the example is supported by the compiler, I would like the RDi outline to also support it. Use...
over 9 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Delivered

Shortcut in Iprojects for Remote Actions - Push Selected, Compile Commands

The Possibility to define a Shortcut for the IProjects Remote Actions like Push Selected, Compile Commands and others.There is a Shortcut for Remote System Explorer - LPEX (Standard definition STRG+Shift+C - Compile), but NOT for the IProjects Vie...
almost 11 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 8 Delivered

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