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RDi (Rational Developer for i)

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    Allow Expanding or Collapsing Code Sections

    Rational Developer for IBM i provides the ability to find the beginning and ending of conditional statements by using Ctl-M (Highlights the entire section of code) or Ctl-Shft-M (Toggle from the start to the end of the section of code). It would b...
    over 7 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Not under consideration

    Preference to not update ILE RPG model on every keystroke

    Add a preference to only update the ILE RPG model that drives the outline view, hovers, etc when the Refresh action is done (or when the cursor leaves the line) and not on every keystroke. Use Case: I am editing a large ILE RPG member and I don't ...
    over 5 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 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...
    almost 4 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Future consideration

    Ability to use an Overlay (created by CRTOVL) in the RDi Design tool.

    Using external printer files, allow the developer to drop data fields more accurately by having visibility to the document or letter being populated. Functionality similar to the screen design tool. Use Case: Gives the developer a visual of where ...
    almost 5 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Not under consideration

    RDI: outline does not show fields modified by eval-corr

    If you have two data structures and do an eval-corr in RPG dcl-ds myds1; a char(10); b char(10); c char(10);end-ds; dcl-ds myds2; a char(10); b char(10); c char(10); d char(10);end-ds; eval-corr myds2 = myds1; then it is not shown in the outline t...
    over 2 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Future consideration

    Support wide SQL sources on **FREE

    Support more than 80 columns for embedded SQL in RPG with **FREE Use Case: Support of the wider sources allows more easily to write complexer SQL statements instead of splitting over many lines.
    almost 8 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 8 Not under consideration

    Import existing user defined options into PDM perspective

    We are relatively new to RDi and have a lot of user defined options coded for the green screen version of PDM. RDi does have a PDM perspective but there is no way to bring in the pre-existing options already defined in the green screen PDM. Need t...
    over 2 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Future consideration

    Add SQL view and index statements to outline view

    Files used in RPG can be SQL views or indexes that have selection criteria, grouping criteria, etc. In order to know what those are, I need to go elsewhere, such as DSPFD in a 5250 session or a database perspective or, perhaps, Run SQL Statements ...
    about 7 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Not under consideration

    Outline - Show Declared DISK Files' Defined Usage

    In the Outline view of RDi, within Global Definitions then Files, there is a list of all declared files in the program. It would be extremely useful to display a DISK file's defined usage, so we can easily see all *update/*output/*delete/etc. capa...
    almost 6 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Future consideration

    Provide Split Screen Capability for all iSeries file types in RDi

    We currently do a large amount of SQL development on the iSeries via RDi 9.0 and split screen capability is not available for SQL source members defined with a file type of SQL (non-standard). There is no good standard file type that is available ...
    about 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 7 Not under consideration

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