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RDi (Rational Developer for i)

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Improve Spool File support within RDP/RSE

RDP includes basic Spool File support as a "technical preview". Please enhance this to provide similar or better functionality to that found within the (free) Softlanding RSE Extensions plug-in.Support for spooled print files and messages handling...
over 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 6 Delivered

Replicate PDM compile submitted job naming

When a compile is submitted to batch in PDM, the job takes the name of the source member. When submitting a compile in RDi, the job uses the job description as the submitted job name. Use Case: Submit a compile in RDi and the job name should be th...
over 9 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 8 Delivered

Hover : exclude comments from beeing shown on definitions

Actually the hover function shows comments that the editor thinks may be relevant to a definition. It picks up any comment lines immediately preceding the item being defined.It should be possible to stop that, for example by inserting one/two blan...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Delivered

Kerberos authentication for RDp

We need to have support in the product for Kerberos Authentication Use Case: I have spoke with Farzi Pourmoetamed (farzi@ca.ibm.com) and he states that currently there is no support and we need to place a RFE.
over 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 7 Delivered

Display additional parameter information in RPGLE content assist

RPG content assist shows only data type and length of parameters in a prototype. Prototypes in RPG allow parameters to have names, mainly for documentation. These parameter names, if available, along with keywords like OPTIONS(*NOPASS:*OMIT:*VARSI...
about 11 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 6 Delivered

Double-click include "*" for *blank/*off/*on

When you double-click on a source element in RPG when using IBM's Rational Developer for i, it normally knows what to highlight (variable, keyword, etc). With the special values of *blank, *off and *on, it highlights only the text and ignores the ...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Delivered

Enhance color-coding/readability

One of the many things that makes RDp a valuable IDE is the color coding it provides in RPG (opcodes, comments, field definitions, etc.). It's nice, but it could be better, in my opinion. I would really like to see any system reserved words color ...
over 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 6 Delivered

RDI: Key Fields in outline should not be sorted

In the outline there is a tag called "Key Fields" showing the key fields in the file. That is a good idea. But if you have selected "Sort by name" then the fields in this tag are sorted too. This is not very practical because you have to deselect ...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Delivered

Highlight Search Fields in LPEX like Java inside Eclipse

When you highlight a item in Java inside Eclipse, it highlights all the occurrence of that word. Why not also do this inside LPEX? More standard. Thx Use Case: Eclipse already does it in Java, just add it to RPGLE.
over 11 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 6 Delivered

Provide ability to set source path for reuse on SEP debugging.

When launching RSE Debug VIA SEP from a 5250 session the Object is examined to determine the source path. When this path does not exist a prompt is provided to set the path. On each subsequent debug session he path must be set again. I would like ...
almost 10 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Delivered

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