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RDi (Rational Developer for i)

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Error list in i-Project

Please add the possibility to i-Project to compile to every target lib and get an error list. At the moment i Projects are currently designed to work that the error list is only automatically pulled from the EVFEVENT file in the library associated...
about 11 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Not under consideration

COBOL Code Coverage in RDp for IBM i

Would like to see the COBOL Code Coverage feature that is currently part of RDz for Cobol programs. Similar sort of feature required for IBM i Cobol Programs in RDp. As its quite useful feature for COBOL developers and also RDp and RDz share techn...
over 11 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Not under consideration

Show ELSE positions in dsiplayNesting action

Ctrl+Shift+O = actio displayNesting shows an control block outline in RPG LPEX editor. It has limitations i can live with (5 levels max) but I really think it needs to highlight ELSE commands also. Use Case: When I have fix format code to review u...
over 11 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Not under consideration

Customer wants Text items of Table View on i project navigator

Using the Remote system view, the text (description) for the source member is shown in the iSeries Table view (Text column). This is useful to know the contents of each source member.However, using the iSeries Project Navigator view, such informat...
over 11 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 6 Not under consideration

Allow alphabetic expand/contract grouping in outline for fields

In the outline view, allow the fields to be grouped alphabetically with the ability to expand/contract the on the each character in the alphabet to view all the fields for that expanded character.All the variables that begin with 'A' would be grou...
over 11 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Not under consideration

Searching in the member change history for the iProject perspective

One feature that I think it would be really valuable is the ability to search for an specific string in the member change history of the iProject Perspective. I appreaciate a lot the 'Compare with local history' featute of the iProject Perspective...
almost 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Not under consideration

Application diagram for CLLE: don't ignore commands inside other command such as IF ELSE MONMSG SBMJOB

The application diagram shows calls from a CLLE member. However these calls are detected only when the CALL command is the main command. If the call is inside a IF, ELSE, MONMSG, SBMJOB, it is not shown.For instance in member MENU isPGM dcl &o...
almost 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Not under consideration

Use column comment/label instead of column name in Data Table view

Current Data Table view is using column name in the table header. While in Green Screen strsql will display column comment or label as the header. If Data Table view could use column comment/label in the table header that will be very helpful. The...
almost 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Not under consideration

Background IBM i search to populate Search Results view as search progresses

Since version 8.5.1 we can now run the IBM i search in background and work on other things.However the Search Results view is updated only at the end of the search. I'd like it to update it as the search progresses. Sometimes when searching, we ar...
almost 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Not under consideration

Make hairline cursor a preference - always on

I would like to not have to turn on the 'hairline cursor' function each time I load a source member into the LPEX editor. It would be nice if I could set that as a preference so that it will always be on. Use Case: This feature would be used in LP...
about 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 7 Not under consideration