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Status Not under consideration
Workspace IBM i
Categories RDi (Rational Developer for i)
Created by Guest
Created on Sep 11, 2015

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RFE Request - Duplicate debugging, only one view?

When doing a parallel debug (I am simultaneously debugging the same application between two systems), it does show a separate branch in the Debug view...but only one Listing view. Should there be a separate view tab for each debug session? It is possible to bring up both views by clicking on the correct stack entry, but they share the same tab, making comparing the two side by side difficult.


Use Case:

You are parallel debugging a program on your development system and the same program on your test system, to identify why it works on one and not the other. To be able to step through the code to find where the logic deviates is possible through RDi. However you have to know which stack entry to select between the two when doing this because they both share the same source tab for debugging. The suggestion is to provide a separate tab for each debug source view.

The Debug view tab (located above the debug source view if you haven't reconfigured your debug perspective) should also interact when you select which one of the debug source view tabs you highlight; it should reposition itself to the stack entry last highlighted on that tab.


Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    |     Sep 23, 2015

    The Eclipse editor has a design paradigm that only one source tab is opened for one particular source in the editor area. This is easy to understand because allowing the same source to be edited from multiple panes can create synchronization issues. In the described parallel debug scenario, if the source object is loaded from different remote systems, then you should see two different source tabs (one for each debug session). You can open a bug if that is not the case. However, if the source is loaded from the same local project, or you are debugging another instance of the same program on the same remote host, then two debug sessions will share only one source tab since you are debugging the same source file even if you have two different debug sessions. The debugger does not have a way to break the editor's rule of one tab per source.

  • Guest
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    |     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

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