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Support for DDS AFPDS keywords in Report Designer

Support for DDS AFPDS keywords in Report Designer would be useful for users who want utilize IBM i TS1 transform service and/or HPT. And as my opinion, modern AFPDS functions like AFPRSC, FONTNAME and UNISCRIPT would be important. very old AFP fun...
over 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Not under consideration

Manual builder needed for i Projects

Currently i Projects offers three builder options, a CL based builder, a user-supplied command based builder and the *NONE builder. When no builder is needed for the and the *NONE builder is selected the options to push changed members to the IBM ...
almost 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 7 Not under consideration

Option required for saving Data Overview Diagram for future references

Due to some business requirement I was generating a Data Overview Diagram from some of the tables from our database. I created the overview diagram and then added some additional information, but couldn't find any option to save the overview diagr...
almost 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 6 Not under consideration

Outline view do not display details for second program source in LPEX editor in browse mode

In RBD/RDPi from LPEX Editor in RSE perspective after opening any program source in browse mode then from the second and consecutive sources do not display the Outline view with details by default on opening, need to refresh the Outline to view th...
almost 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Not under consideration

Enable block nesting in RPG source members

When editing and RPGLE source member you can use the block nesting function to have RDp connect the IF/ENDIF, DO/ENDDO, FOR/ENDFOR (etc.) statements. This is really nice if someone didn't do a very good job of indenting or if the group spans multi...
almost 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 9 Not under consideration

The Design tab of Screen Designer should show all non-hidden items defined on the record

When designing records, I would like to see all fields/constants without regard to conditioning or attributes. Currently, I comment out the DSPATR(ND) or indicators while I am working on the design, so that I can see everything defined in the reco...
almost 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Not under consideration

In the Repository view, parse DDS file opened from an offline iProject

When Rational Team Concert is installed in the same package as the Rational Developer for Power, parse DDS files from an offline iProject opened in the Repository view. Currently, DDS file is opened with a simplified Lpex editor and is not parsed....
almost 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Not under consideration

From RBD/RDPi under Data perspective using Generate DDL producing incomplete SQL statement for Logical File (LF) in iSeries

In RBD&RDPi from Data perspective Generating DDL definition from an existing Logical File (LF) is populating incomplete SQL statement and getting error on execution. I am on IBM RBD (Version 8.0.1.2) and IBM RDPi (Version 8.0.3). Under Data pe...
almost 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Not under consideration

Add ability to select compare tool with local history when used with iProject members

When the compare with local history with iProject members is used it currently opens the less featureful text compare editor, and there is no option to select the smarter LPEX editor. Add the ability to select different compare editors - at least ...
almost 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Not under consideration

Compare to file should be available from the Remote Systems view

Create consistency between the LPEX editor and RSE views when it comes to Compare tooling:1) Compare to file should be available from RSE View2) Compare options should be available from the open source in the LPEx editor other then from the Edit g...
almost 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 7 Not under consideration