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IBM i

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    Make RDi available for Mac

    Can we make RDi RPG/COBOL development tools available for MAC OSX? I understand that in the past the delay was due to the lack of verifier routines to run on OSX, but even a version without these would allow Mac users to use the tool to gain busin...
    almost 10 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Not under consideration

    Provide error handler for secondary thread of multi-threaded job

    When a multi-threaded job encounters an unhandled exception, the system should be able to gracefully handle the error with the standard *INQ message to *EXT or QSYSOPR. Background When an unhandled exception occurs in the secondary thread of a mul...
    almost 10 years ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 3 Not under consideration

    Ability for Replacing PF/LF objects while compilation from RDP/RBD

    It will be nice to having ability of replacing PF/LF objects while compilation from RDP. After going to Window ?> Preferences ?> Remote Systems ?> IBM i ?> Command Execution then checked the box for Replace object and unchecked Compile...
    over 14 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Not under consideration

    RDi Support for 5250 Advanced Function Display Data Stream (AFDDS)

    Enhance Rational Developer for i to support new 5250 AFDDS capability (see related RFEs). Enhance the RDi Screen Designer to generate and maintain DDS containing AFDDS keywords. This would enable IBM i programmers to upgrade their "green screen" s...
    almost 10 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 6 Not under consideration

    Enable Job Description to be defined on Printer Device Description

    When a print writer is started there is no option to specify a job description. There are three supplied job descriptions:QSPLPRTW - used for all local and LAN Writers QSPLAFPW - used for local and LAN writers for IPDS printers configured with AFP...
    almost 10 years ago in IBM i / Print 4 Future consideration

    List of members description in table

    How to get the list of members from a file in the "i Project" perspective. Same functionality as in the RSE perspective "Show In Table" This is for a list to see member descriptions. Use Case: User to see all descriptions of files in iProject pers...
    almost 15 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Not under consideration

    Templates should work outside of /free section

    Templates doesn't work outside of /free but they should. And snippets are no substitution for templates. Use Case: Template example I would like to have outside of /free: \rev ${date} ${user} Task: ${task} ${cursor}
    almost 15 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Not under consideration

    Merge tool for LPEX editor

    Extend the LPEX editor to have diff and merge capabilities. Use Case: * Select two source members, and see within the editor where those two versions differ.* Apply changes from one member to another.
    almost 10 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Not under consideration

    Collapse the Find String results in RDI with Ctrl -

    When doing Find String in RDI and get a lot of results, everything is expanded. In order to highlight and do another Find String on them I have to manually collapse all of them. Would be nice if Ctrl - could Collapse and Ctrl + would expand them. ...
    almost 10 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Not under consideration

    DataStructure Subfield Access By Variable Property

    Add new syntax to RPG for accessing subfields. RPG limits access to qualified data structure subfields to hard-coded names with dot notation. New syntax should be like Javascript property notation dataStruct['literal_name'] or var fld = 'userName'...
    about 10 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Not under consideration

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