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Use checksums for testing files for changes.

Today RDi uses timestamps for testing local and remote members for changes. If the timestamps do not match, the Remote Reconciler assumes that a member was changed on the local or remote system. But of course that may not be true. For example, mem...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Future consideration

Add .ignore file to i Project

Add a .ignore file (similar to the Git .gitignore file or the svn:ignore property) so that the developer can specify files or members that must be ignored by the Remote Reconciler. That would be very useful if a developer stores multiple i Project...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Future consideration

Add Macro functionality to iaccess 11.0.8

On iAccess 6.0 for windows (e.g.IBM System iAccess for Windows R610 SI29455) , it was possible to use easy Macros/Scripts. These were textfiles starting with "Description=" in the first line, than line by line telling the machine what to do. For e...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

ACS - Database Table Functions

Allow me to edit the contents of a table from the ACS Database context. I can View, Clear, Copy, Initialize and Reorganize Data but not Edit the content. Use Case: This option is heavily used by our database administrators in order to view and man...
about 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Not under consideration

Add user registry and TAI to RSE APIs

Hello, Concerning the use of Remote System Explorer APIs (RSE API), we currently use basic authentication + a session. This opens up many possibilities (IFS access, SQL queries, CL command calls, etc.) to all users (within the limits of thei...
9 months ago in IBM i / Web Serving 1 Submitted

For a procedure returning a varchar, writing "return *blank;" should be the same as writing "return '';"

Writing: dcl-s result varchar(500); dcl-proc GetErrorMessage;dcl-pi *n varchar(500);end-pi; return *blank;end-proc; result = GetErrorMessage(); //=> result = '[500 times space character]' is not the same as writing: dcl-s result varchar(500); d...
9 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 2 Not under consideration

Allow Standalone Field Declarations to Reference Subfields of Nested DS Arrays

Declaring a standalone field with a reference field (keyword: LIKE) should work if the referenced field is a subfield of a data structure array in a nested data structure. Use Case: dcl-ds DS_A qualified template; dcl-ds DS_Arr_B dim(10); field1 v...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 5 Not under consideration

Hide the underlying procedures when OVERLOADed

I'd like a way to effectively "hide" the underlying procedures from callers when they are part of an OVERLOAD prototype. Use Case: When several procedures are declared, then OVERLOADed to a single name, the individual procedures are still exposed ...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 4 Future consideration

Debugging in RDi should require only one step over EXEC SQL statements

It would ease debugging if we could compile programs with compile option DBGVIEW(*NOSQLSRC) No SQL source. This would skip over all embedded sql statements but still would allow them to run. Use Case: This saves time when you are debugging program...
about 5 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 10 Not under consideration

Add Source Change Mark column to Source Physical Files to promote move to **FREE and preserve historical metadata

With the addition of **FREE support for RPGLE, the prior use of columns 1 - 5 goes away. However, the vast majority of developers use these 5 characters to put a 'change mark' to tie source code changes back to a project or reason for the change. ...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Application Development 2 Not under consideration

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