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RDi (Rational Developer for i)

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Add a preview tab to Report Designer like Screen Designer

With screen designer you can create indicator sets, assign them to a record format, and preview the results. In report designer you can do all except preview the results. Use Case: I am modernizing reports to utilize *PRTF instead of the program d...
about 4 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Not under consideration

Quick Method to Side by Side Compare an Open Source Member

Provide a quick method to compare a source member opened in LPEX editor window. Current option available is slow because it forces browsing through libraries, source files and members before a source member can be selected. It would be a lot quick...
about 9 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Not under 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 6 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Future consideration

Allow selection of multiple items in screen designer

In CODE/Designer you can lasso many items on the panel you are designing and do things with them, like move, duplicate, DELETE or change a COLOR ATTRIBUTE. Use Case: Use CODE/Designer and attempt to lasso many items and then delete or change the c...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Not under consideration

Bring qualified data structure name to top of Content Assist prompt list

I use Content Assist to autocomplete code all the time. For data structures, however, it hasn't been as nice. The reason is because I can't easily simply select a qualified data structure to complete, it brings up all the subfields as well for me ...
about 9 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Not under consideration

RDI: Outline does not show parameter usage for call statement

When defining variables for parameters for a call statement in the parm statement they are specified as unreferenced. I have attached 2 files describing the situation.One shows the program snippet and the second shows the outline.In all cases the ...
about 4 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Future consideration

ScreenDesigner should support Compile Menu in Design or Preview mode

When opening a member with Screen Designer, the Compile Menu is shown only when in the source tab, it is not shown when in the Design or Preview tabs. I believe the Compile menu should be available irrespective of the tab that is active in the edi...
over 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Not under consideration

Dark Theme - Heap Usage Meter Unreadable

In the default dark theme, the text for the heap usage display is black on black making it hard to read the amount used. Although not critical, it might be good to fix in some future release. Use Case: This is an information tool, but very useful ...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Not under consideration

Allow RPG column sensitive cut and paste into snippets

When custom snippets are created to be used with RPG source by cutting and pasting from correct templates and variables are added to replace the template input, the snippet does not correctly space keyword parameter lines in fixed format lines (li...
about 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Not under 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 7 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Future consideration

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