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RDi (Rational Developer for i)

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    Add edit/browse capability for called programs similar to copy books

    When editing a CL or RPG source member in RDi, it would be cool if you could right click on a called program in that source and edit/browse that program in a new tab. This would perform similar to when you right click on a copy book. The LPEX edit...
    over 3 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Future consideration

    Please add the Java Modernization Tools for RPG and COBOL into RDI 9.8 like RDI 9.6 with the tools option.

    IBM Rational Developer for i RPG and COBOL + Modernization Tools, Java Edition V9.6 Core Multiplatform Multilingual eAssembly (CJ2JVML) comes with many tools for exposing IBM i backend business logic to web based application written in Java for th...
    11 months ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Future consideration

    Freely Choose Tab Color for Members in LPEX

    The user should be able to set the color of an LPEX tab. Example: When working on a customer management application, one could color all members (RPG, DDS, CL etc.) that belong to processing the customer list in one color and the ones that belong ...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Future consideration

    Allow cross reference to account for literals in code

    The Mark Occurrences works wonders but there are times when I want to have it mark constants, like hard coded array indexes, etc. Please consider adding an option to the outline that allows it to cross source literals, yes any literal. Use Case: O...
    almost 7 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Future consideration

    RDi don't change selection with scroll

    Scrolling should be a non-destructive operation, specifically the selected text should not be removed simply because one end of the selected region scrolls outside the visible window. The selected region should not be lost via mouse wheel scrollin...
    almost 6 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Future consideration

    Highlight and or color parens

    I'd like RDI to highlight or colorize matching parens. When nesting BIF's this can be a real useful feature when debuging and understanding code. Use Case: Debgugging, or changing code where multiple parens are used. Here is an example of a line o...
    almost 8 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Future consideration

    Auto Generate Procedures

    Today in Eclipse when coding Java applications you can type a call to a method without the method existing. When eclipse sees that the method does not exist it gives an auto correct option to create the method based on the parameters passed in the...
    almost 11 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 6 Future consideration

    Cross-hair highlight cursor

    The RDi editor needs a cross-hair highlight cursor similar to what existed in the Code/400 product. The "hairline cursor" does not persist between sessions and does not do a sufficient job of highlighting the cursor position when a lot of text is ...
    about 4 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Future consideration

    Set SEP entry screen browse buttons take too long

    There are a few problems with the "Browse" buttons on the "Set Service Entry Point" window. Every single one of the browse buttons does the same where it populates a massive list of all objects, modules and procedures for everything in the *LIBL (...
    about 9 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Future consideration

    Expand Object Table to copy members to different system

    In the new, PDM-like Object Table, add ability to copy a member to a different LPAR/SYSTEM when using PDM option 3 Use Case: We have multiple systems, and there are times I need to copy a member to a different system for testing, etc. I can do thi...
    about 6 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Future consideration

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