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RSE "Filter Strings" Dialog Usability

This dialog must be one of the strangest and most incomprehensible Windows dialogs in any Windows application anywhere. I am always puzzled by: 1. The flow of control: How the buttons and dropdowns work, how they're related to one another, in what...
over 11 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Delivered

Retain Error List Highlighting

Allow highlighted lines in the "Error List" to remain highlighted when the user focuses on another window (e.g. the LPEX editor). Currently, lines in the Error List which are highlighted retain their highlighting even though the list may be sorted...
over 11 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Delivered

Shortcut in Iprojects for Remote Actions - Push Selected, Compile Commands

The Possibility to define a Shortcut for the IProjects Remote Actions like Push Selected, Compile Commands and others.There is a Shortcut for Remote System Explorer - LPEX (Standard definition STRG+Shift+C - Compile), but NOT for the IProjects Vie...
over 11 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 8 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...
over 11 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 6 Delivered

Open /COPY and copy book members with right click->/Copy member > Edit when /Copy member is stored in IFS

In ?Rational Developer for i? is a function for opening /COPY and /INCLUDE files by pointing at the source line where the copy is definded, right clicking and choosing Source > /COPYmember > Edit. This is working only when the Source is stor...
over 11 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Delivered

Change behaviour of TAB-key for /free lines

Please change the way the TAB-key works for /free lines to act the same as the TAB-key in the Eclipse Java editor. Do not change the behavior for fixed-format lines. Today the TAB-key moves the cursor to the next tab at the right, respectively Shi...
almost 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 8 Delivered

Remove pink error messages as well as error list entries after compilation

Please remove the pink error messages from the LPEX editor as well as the error list entries after a successful compilation of the source member. It is annoying (at least for me) to press CTRL+F5 to remove the pink error messages from the LPEX edi...
almost 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Delivered

Make background IBM i search not interfere with opening member, running commands, debugging

Running of IBM i searches can now be done in background which does not block the UI and we can now edit an already opend member. However, the search uses the same communication channel as is used to run commands, open members, expand items in RSE,...
almost 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Delivered

Content Assist should consistently insert to new line if inserted text would go past column 80 in free format RPGLE

When using Content Assist in RPGLE free-format near the end of the code section of a line (col 80), the behaviour is inconsistent when the choice would not fit (up to col 79 actually)- in some cases the choice in put on a new line (ex a variable n...
almost 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 6 Delivered

Allow changing color of block nesting arrows

We have some developpers that change the Lpex editor colors to have a black background which they find less hard on the eyes. The show block nesting action (ctrl-shift-o) uses dark blue arrows to show the nesting of if / do / for, etc. That color ...
almost 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Delivered