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Context prompt for OVERLOADed procedures

When using the context-sensitive completion assist to find a procedure to call, it would help greatly if all of the possible overloaded procedure parameters were suggested using the name of the overload prototype. See Use Case for example. Use Cas...
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Future consideration

Ctrl / behavior enhancement request

I would like to request an enhancement to RDi for the Ctrl / and Ctrl \ key functions so that they either perform the "new" way which is consistent with Eclispe, or, the keystrokes perform as they did prior to the installation of Version: 9.6.0.12...
9 months ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Future consideration

RDi Library List View Enhancements

a) Library List Connections dropdown should be ordered with the active connections first, not Alphabetical orderb) Clicking on an inactive connection should not automatically attempt to connect - an action should be required firstc) The Library Li...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Future consideration

Refactor->Extract Local Variable - for ILE RPG

Code Refactoring is a well known software best practice that involves improving the structure of existing computer code while preserving its behaviour.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_refactoringEclipse already has excellent refactoring support ...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Future consideration

Add the possibility to define user-variables for templates (e.g. User-Name, Department, aso) as it is possible for Snippets!

We are using snippets for creating new source-members. We want to replace them by templates. If we can define our own variables for the instance of RDi, we can automate the creation of source-members. We think that would be helpfull for a lot of c...
about 1 year ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Future consideration

RDi should prompt options Parameters in RPG

Right now RDi when you have a procedure which allows a parameter for example pointer and the options(*string) RDi (or LPEX Editor) only prompt existing pointer variables.It should also prompt the variables of the type specified in options(). Use C...
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Future consideration

Auto refresh Service Entry Points in RDi

When setting a Service Entry Point in RDi, every time you re-compile the program the SEP must be refreshed. It's easy to forget to do so, and then you need to stop the program you are trying to debug. It would be good if RDi would just auto refres...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Future consideration

Add "Open for Edit" shortcut in IBM Rational Developer for i

When the developers browse source codes using IBM Rational Developer for i, they often open source members using mouse right-click option 'Browse With" as they do not want to lock the source member while browsing.When the developer decides to actu...
about 1 year ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Future consideration

From a SQLxxxLE source, a "SQL prompter" on SQL lines

From a SQLxxxLE source, a "SQL prompter" on SQL lines as we can have in SEU with the F4 function key Use Case: Helpfull to code SQL statements
about 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 9 Future consideration

Collapse a section in RPG source.

Like in JavaScript or HTML source editors, in RPG I would like collapse a subroutine, a subprocedure, an IF - ENDIF and so on by cliking on symbol "-". Use Case: Like SEU command X.
over 7 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 8 Future consideration

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