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RDi (Rational Developer for i)

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NPE when prompting CL

After installing 9.6.0.8 we get errors when prompting (F4) inside CL Programs. See attached stacktraces Use Case: Programming CL
over 4 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Is a defect

Ability for Replacing PF/LF objects while compilation from RDP/RBD

It will be nice to having ability of replacing PF/LF objects while compilation from RDP. After going to Window ?> Preferences ?> Remote Systems ?> IBM i ?> Command Execution then checked the box for Replace object and unchecked Compile...
over 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Not under consideration

Source members and IFS files in the same RSE filter.

Source members and IFS files in the same RSE filter. Use Case: My CGI applications (in my case with Strategi by ABL) is composed by IBM i objects and IFS files (HTML, HSM, CSS, JavaScript), so I would like see all these types in the same filter.
almost 9 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 6 Not under consideration

RPG figurative constants in outline view.

In outline view constants section I would like see also RPG figurative constants *ZERO, *BLANK, *LOVAL and so on. Use Case: In legacy code, change all generic constants in specific named constants.
almost 9 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Not under consideration

Quantify the source lines covered with numbers of time executed

Please add the number of times a line was executed. Use Case: I would use this number to search for ways to possibly improve my program code to see if I can reduce the number of times a line is executed.
almost 9 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Not under consideration

Quantify the source lines covered with time executed

Please add the total amount of time a line executed. Use Case: I would use this value to search for ways to possibly improve my program code to see if I can reduce the amount of time a line is executed.
almost 9 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Not under consideration

List of members description in table

How to get the list of members from a file in the "i Project" perspective. Same functionality as in the RSE perspective "Show In Table" This is for a list to see member descriptions. Use Case: User to see all descriptions of files in iProject pers...
over 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Not under consideration

Include field name specified on procedure prototype in content assist prompt.

We have over 3500 procedures in our service programs. All have the field name that should be used specified on the prototype parameters. It sure would be nice if these field names were included in the Content Assist and would be injected into the ...
about 9 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Not under consideration

Make RDi main product reopen on monitor it was shut down on when restarted

I have needs to have several different compile environments and I do not use multiple connections because I have to use tools in RDi that do not honor those connections properly. So, I often set up the library list for the environment I want and I...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Future consideration

Push To Client - Save/deploy folder/files

Most 3rd-party add-on tools for Eclipse (RDi) store their configurations in one or more XML files. It would be great if we could specify certain files and/or folders that should be saved by Push To Client and deployed to the same relative path for...
about 9 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Not under consideration

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