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RDi (Rational Developer for i)

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Overlay exported procedures with a little icon to distinguish them from internal procedures

Please add an overlay to exported procedures in the "Outline" view. Distinguishing between exported from imported procedures would be much easier, if there were different icons for both types. Maybe you could also add an overlay to the local proce...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 8 Delivered

RDi : open include/copy from IFS

RDi is able to open the /include or /copy members only for physical source files : add the capacity to open /include from the IFS Use Case: Very usefull for ILE development.
over 3 years 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...
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 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...
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Delivered

RDi Ctrl+F

Using CTRL+F to bring up the find footer should not reposition the cursor in the editor. Use Case: editing code
over 4 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Delivered

Update RDi Eclipse to more current versions.

The version of Eclipse that RDi and it's family of products uses is now way out of date. Neon is gone and yet our version of eclipse for RDi is from 2017. It's time to allow us to install Eclipse on our own, and then install RDi as a plugin. This ...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 12 Delivered

Option to suppress individual RDI "not used" markers

RDi marks variables that aren't used in the left margin, the right margin and a blue squiggle under the variable. The mouse-over tells you that the item isn't used. There are times when you want to permanently suppress that for a given variable in...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Delivered

RDI: Operation on file or record format should be shown in outline

In the outline I would like to be able to see what kind of operation is done on a file or record format.It could be I/O/U for input/output/update or M for modify. "I" could be used to show a read or chain operation;"O" could be used for a write op...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 9 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...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 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 ...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Delivered