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RDi (Rational Developer for i)

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Provide for PDF Report on Code Coverage Usage captures

Request to be able to create a PDF report to support an individual Code Usage capture along with supporting the Merge of multiple Code Usage captures for reporting. The files we need to report on are created via the iSeries CODECOV command which c...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Delivered

RDI LPEX zoom in/out like Eclipse Neon

Eclipse neon allow developer to Zoom in & out with shortcuts keys Ctrl+= (Zoom-in) and Ctrl+-(Zoom-out). Lpex needs to have this same feature. Use Case: changing the font for lpex is extremely cumbersome. Browser, other IDE/editor all have the...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Delivered

Filter RPG view by unused variables

At version 9.6 of RDi we can see which variables are not in use in various ways. Add to the "Filter view" context-menu option the ability to select "Unused" Use Case: With the current support I still need to scroll through a source member, looking...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 6 Delivered

Retain sort state of Object Table View after refresh

Please save the sort state of the Object Table View and restore it after refreshing the content of the view. Or, refresh the content, not the state, of the view. Use Case: In a long list of source members sorted by name, I am looking at a spot whe...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Delivered

Allow Refactor Rename to wrap lines when the new length is longer than the record length

When using the Refactor>Rename on ILE RPG, it is possible for the length of the line to exceed the record length of the original line. In this case RDi should break the line at an appropriate place and wrap it onto a new line. It would be ideal...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 6 Delivered
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RDi Lite, RDi Premium

RDi Lite, RDi Pro, RDi Premium versions needed Use Case: Right now the RDi pricing makes management hesistant in allocating budget as they can't see the ROI on it. To make them see it, we need the Lite version. It should be free and should basic f...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 49 Delivered

RDI: Not all record formats specified with include are shown in outline

When specifying include for more than 1 recordformat in the F-specifications only the first record format is shown. For example the logical file MyFileL1 has the record formats MyFileR1,MyFileR2 and MyFileR3. If you have this specification:FMyFile...
about 7 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Delivered

Always show subroutine/sub-procedure name where cursor is located

Recent changes to Rational Developer allow the user to display the name of the subroutine/sub-procedure that the cursor is located in. This only works if the cursor is not on a control statement (a line that contains IF, ELSE, DO, SELECT, etc.). T...
about 7 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 6 Delivered

RDi search should include PF38-SRC as well as PF-SRC.

RDi search should include PF38-SRC as well as PF-SRC. Since we migrated from a System/38 to AS/400 (and now are on IBM i) many of our source files still have an object attribute of PF38-SRC. This really is no disadvantage except that doing an "IBM...
about 7 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Delivered

Recognize fields renamed in RPG I-specs in RDi live outline

Currently RDi doesn't recognize renames of fields in RPG I-specs. For example, in the code below, the outline fails to recognize p3srvl as a defined field, and all functions dependent on it do not function. Please consider enabling the live outlin...
about 7 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Delivered