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Status Delivered
Workspace IBM i
Categories RDi (Rational Developer for i)
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 10, 2014

RELATED IDEAS

Consolidated Project View

System: Rational Developer for Power Systems Project
Actor: User needing new feature

The iProject view is commonly used for development of RPG applications. Many applications have a variety of architectures that are required for development, many which do not reside in IBMi source-physical files.

A general project should be enhanced to allow for folders to individually associate perspectives for different purposes. Adding IFS stream files to an iProject prevents opening iProject source on the IBMi at the same time as IFS source.


Use Case:

System: General Project Container
Actor: Development Staff

Use cases for the system:
Create projects
Maintain components of projects

Scenario:
Create a project
Add IBMi source physical file members to project for RPG and CLLE development.
Add stream files from IFS for HTML development
Add stream files from IFS for SQL Database development
Add stream files from IFS for XML development
Add stream files from IFS for Java development
Maintain source code from RPG/CLLE at the same time as code from the IFS


Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Sep 9, 2016

    This feature is now available in the IBM Rational Developer for i V9.5 product with V9.5.1 update installed.
    All projects in RDi except for i Projects can now be associated with an IFS location. From the project, right click Remote Reconciler -> Enable Remote Support... to select the IFS location with the same name as the project. Use the Remote Reconciler view and disable the icon "Hide files and folders that do not have pending changes" to view existing remote IFS files that can be imported into your General Project. From the Remote Reconciler view, files can be pushed to and pulled from the IFS location.

    See also: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/49773f8f-a20d-4816-86f2-44a2d862dbc1/entry/RFE45970_IFS_project_support_using_RDi_9_5_1?lang=en.

    Product web page: http://www.ibm.com/software/products/us/en/dev-ibm-i
    Fix list: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27038481#9510
    Download doc: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24042646

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jul 11, 2016

    The feature that is described in this request is a candidate for a future release.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Sep 14, 2015

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Programming Languages
    Product - Developer for Power Systems

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Rational
    Product family - Design & development
    Product - Developer for Power Systems

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     May 8, 2014

    This RFE will be under consideration for a future release. Status has been updated to Uncommitted Candidate.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Apr 28, 2014

    A preliminary evaluation of this request indicates that it is consistent with our business strategy. Further evaluation of this RFE is underway.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Apr 18, 2014

    Ideally, these two pieces would be related. By themselves, they would not be a project. Only together would they be complete. If a separate project for IFS source is the direction to take, then there would need to be someway other than a project naming convention to link these together. They need to function as a single project and the build for each piece needs to be consolidated.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Apr 17, 2014

    We understand the request for supporting IFS source in projects. Changing the current iProject structure, as you suggested, is one option to provide that support. Another option is to have another project type for IFS source in addition to the existing iProject type. Would this option work for you?

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Apr 9, 2014

    This RFE is consistent with our strategy and product roadmap and IBM is continuing to evaluate.

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