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RDi (Rational Developer for i)

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[RDP] iProjects - Compare to File in LPEX-editor - autocompare to file on Remote System

System: RDPHeader: Compare to File improvement In RDP / LPEX Editor there is a feature to compare to a file. Using this feature is very helpful in many situations but also annoying because you have to set every time the location of the compared fi...
over 11 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Not under consideration

Screen Designer Indicator *On/*Off

There appears to be a lack of functionality to show/hide items on the screen based on whether an indicator is *on or *off. It currently just overlaps the displays. Use Case: This is a feature used in SDA via the F6 key. It's a well missed feature.
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Not under consideration

Enable iProject to have an associated JOBD.

I have a number of ongoing iProjects and generally each projects requires it's own attributes when submitting for compilation or when executing. It would be greatly beneficial if I could specify an IBMi jobd where RDi could get attributes from bef...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Not under consideration

RDI User Actions

Please add the "User Actions" option to members in the Remote Scratchpad and the List in the resulting list of "Remote Serch" Use Case: We have very usefull user actions as "Push Live" and we are not using the Remote Scractc pad because we can't u...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Not under consideration

RDI - Add the Verify, Compile, and User actions to the Remote Scratch Pad View.

Add the Verify, Compile, and User actions to the Remote Scratch Pad View. Use Case: Add the Verify, Compile, and User actions to the Remote Scratch Pad View. The user won't have to switch back to Remote Systems Explorer just to compile.
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Not under consideration

Add new stop characters for nextWord and prevWord actions

Increase character tokens used to identify a "nextWord" or :prevWord" spot point to all punctuation and math symbol characters that are legal in RPG syntax. Use Case: If I create long variable names, function names and or function calls with long ...
almost 9 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 9 Not under consideration

Rename, copy/paste, delete... options directly in the outline view

In the outline view, the rename, copy/paste, delete, etc. options on subroutines, fields, files, etc. For instance, right clic then delete on a subroutine name, delete all the code of the subroutine in LPEX. Another use is to be able to copy/paste...
over 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Not under consideration

Compare to file on "Open Member In Editor" screen

On the "Open Member In Editor" Screen, in addition to "Open for Edit" and "Open for browse", there should also be "Open for compare". This is opened via the default shortcut of CTRL-ALT-Q. Alternatively, it could have it's own window instead. This...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Not under consideration

"Open Declaration" should actually open the declaration

When doing a "Open Declaration" on an externally defined procedure or field, RDi simply jumps to the line in the existing source where the procedure or field is imported. This is the easy way out and is not very helpful. Use Case: In the case of c...
about 9 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Not under consideration

Add procedure documentation to content assist

The documentation of a procedure should be displayed right next to the list of possible entries offered by content assist (ctrl+space) for the current code. Use Case: Procedure documentation may look like this: /** * \brief Create JSON Object * * ...
over 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 10 Not under consideration