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RDi (Rational Developer for i)

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Named indicator should appear in the Fields section of the Outline view

Currently named variables of type N are shown under the indicator category in the Outline view.Consensus in the WDSC-I Midrange list is that developers consider this type of variables should be under the Fields category like other variables. There...
about 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 6 Delivered

ON-EXIT could be colored differently

Syntax highlighting: The ON-EXIT opcode, while technically an opcode, could be more noticeable if it were colored like a "control flow opcode" instead of regular "opcode". Then it would look like the monitor/on-error/endmon and return opcodes inst...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Delivered

Adding a hyperlink to comment source code when developing in Remote System Explorer in RDi.

We use Jira as our document control/status control/issue tracker. We also put this Jira number within our source code as a comment. It will be great if we can add a hyperlink to that Jira number, so when you click on this hyperlink it will take yo...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Delivered

Compare without sequence #

The stock compare function, as initiated with a right-click in the RSE includes sequence # in the comparison. There doesn't appear to be a way to stop this from happening, so many more differences are tagged than we would like. Use Case: We have s...
over 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 6 Delivered

RDI Command popups do not appear on same monitor as RDI window.

I use two monitors while working at home, the main one is my laptop panel and the other is a widescreen monitor. I have to travel into the office sometimes where the setup is different so the main screen reverts from the laptop to one of the two m...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 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

Content Assist - Show Decimal Positions

When using content assist to see the definition of a numeric variable, it displays the numeric type (packed, int, etc) and the total length of the field, but does not tell you how many decimal positions it has. I would like it to display the decim...
over 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Delivered

Preserve case when using the F4 prompt function in RDp on fixed format lines

Many programmers are now writing RPG code in mixed case (or lower case) for readability. When I use the F4 prompt function in RDp on an existing or partially completed F or D spec, the program changes the case of the specification type and any fie...
over 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 7 Delivered

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...
almost 12 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

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