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RFE Request - Monitoring same field from two (or more) programs

In the Monitors view, it is possible to monitor the same field more than once when it appears in two (or more) programs being debugged, or in two (or more) programs in the stack. When done, the field appears in the list multiple times as needed bu...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Not under consideration

Make Content Assist/Autocomplete work with LikeRec & File Formats

Autocomplete for LikeRec does not offer up the files that are defined. Please have it do so. Autocomplete also doesn't bring up formats for files. I noticed this with a delete of a record from a qualified file. (I qualify all files in my programs....
over 8 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Not under consideration

Move selected (highlighted) block using the TAB key

While creating or modifying code (any language) where indentation is a good practice to visually structure the body of the entire program or scrip, this feature will facilitate the opportunity to massive move a block at once and not line per line ...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Not under consideration

Have the Rational product "Quick Access" search in templates and Snippets

My biggest issue with using Snippets and Templates is remembering what I called a template or that I even created a template or snippet. Use Case: In preferences you can search for a particular preference tree entry but not a preference item or va...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Not under consideration

Allow help to work on different source language versions

The help system provided with RDi is shipped with the most recent version of each source langauge. Currently, for RPGLE, it is v7.2. Please develop the ability to cause all help for the O/S and source languages to show information relevant to a us...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 6 Not under consideration

Keep cursor in prefix area

Modify operation of the editor so that after a prefix (line number) area command (e.g. "cc/cc", "a", "dd/dd") is executed, the cursor remains in the prefix area. Currently (8.5.1),it appears that the cursor remains in the prefix area when "half" a...
almost 9 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Not under consideration

In RDI ability to exit program debug immediately as in F3 using green screen STRDBG

Using green screen STRDBG, while stepping through any program using F10, if the developer presses F3 to exit, the program stops running immediately. This is a bit of a safeguard to many developers where they know they can end a job midstream. This...
almost 9 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 6 Future consideration

VisualAge for RPG

Allow users to import VisualAge for RPG projects & build .Windows applicaitons - or Java applications within RDi Use Case: Lots of home-grown software written on VisualAge for RPG. Because they were designed from the ground up (and not convert...
almost 9 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Not under consideration

Retrieve values from existing objects

Create or modify objects requires you to specify parameters (i.e. Activation Group, Form Size, Orientation, Size, Reuse Delete records and so on). These parameters may be retrieved from the existing object and prompted. A possible list of object c...
almost 9 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Not under consideration

Use the printer file page size when prompting compile

When creating a printer file in RDi, we give it the page size (lines and columns). When I compile the printer file using the Compile/Compile (Prompt) option, the default page size values for me are 66 x 132. Since I have already specified the page...
almost 9 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Not under consideration

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