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FUSE - File System API

It would be appreciated if a user defines filesystem could be plugged into the IFS to enhance user defined connectivity Use Case: Use case 1 - Images in Db2 BLOB.Imagine a user defined file system that maps BLOB into data that can be open by stand...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Possibility to use *LIBL when attaching DB Fields as Reference in Screendesigner

When attaching Reference Fields within the Screendesigner, to a display always the Library is explicitely defined. It would be nice to configure this behaviour and to be able to choose the usage of *LIBL instead Use Case: When using different Libr...
over 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Not under consideration

DDS Display files enable more than 1 subfile horizontally, side by side.

Enhance DDS for display files to place more than one subfile horizontally at the same time. Use Case: Solution 1: Add a parameter to the subfile control record, maybe POSITION(*HORIZONTAL), to be displayed next to another subfile. Solution 2: Enab...
about 8 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 3 Not under consideration

Allow renaming field into a data structure

Allow renaming a variable into a qualified data structure. Currently when that is attempted RDi says "You have specified an invalid name". Use Case: See attachment
about 4 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 7 Future consideration

Add identity of Database File and Member in QSPL of the SPOOLED File to QUSRSPLA API

Please add the name of the QSPL database file and member to the Retrieve SPOOLED File Attributes API. If there are multiple members/files, then return it as an repeating list of this with the offset and count as the way to jump to the info. Perhap...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Print 1 Future consideration

Add MONMSG to control codes when filtering view by control; improve [Shft]-Ctrl-M behavior

In the editor view there is an option to filter the view by code, date, etc. And by control, so that the structural flow can be seen better. In CL code, the MONMSG command can have a DO on its EXEC parameter. This, however, does not appear in the ...
over 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 6 Not under consideration

How to input UTF16 over 20000 (ISO /IEC 10646)

Under win 10,some UTF-16 chinese characters are working finewith RPGLE /RPG... and Display FileBut some chinese character with "ISO/IEC 10646" value > 20000, such as "ISO/IEC 10646" = 21884 We cannot input and displayCould you fix it ? Regards ...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 5 Not under consideration

Align parameters in prototype hover text

In the hover text for a procedure, align the parameters. Currently the first parameter is way off to the right making it easy to miss. Use Case: See attachment.
about 4 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Future consideration

Add option to show indent for entire source member Shift-Ctrl-O

If you position your cursor on an if/endif or other kind of loop, RDi shows arrows and lines in the left margin to indicate where the loop starts and ends. It also documents begin/end within the top loop. I would like an option to mark the entire ...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Not under consideration

RDi Outline view separate Include values

Within RDi v9.5, the Outline view shows groups of Files, Data Structures, Fields, Constants, Indicators, etc. however when using modular development techniques with Copy/Include members there's no way to segregate these elements from the core sour...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 7 Not under consideration

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