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Status Not under consideration
Workspace IBM i
Categories RDi (Rational Developer for i)
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 31, 2015

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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 user selected version instead of the most recent.


Use Case:

There are many changes to a source language in each version of the documentation. For example, in v7.2 of RPGLE, you can specify a string of length 14 to 26 characters to deal with a timestamp for %DEC, but at v6.1 this is not allowed. The confusion caused me several hours of pointless debugging.


Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Aug 20, 2020

    User can use the Web Help and from the Web help, the user can use the drop down for different OS levels.

  • 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
    |     Aug 26, 2015

    Although the theme of this request is consistent with our business strategy, it is not committed to the release that is currently under development.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Aug 26, 2015

    Thank you for providing the information that we requested to clarify this enhancement request.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Aug 14, 2015

    I'm looking for multiple OS version-specific documentation to be available, so that the user can select (for example) v6.1 for one connection and the help pages dealing with the selected version are displayed. This includes the F1 context-sensitive help.

    I understand that those who download the help to their local machine might have a valid complaint about disk space, but the web access to the relevant help pages should not make much difference.

    Currently for RDi v9.1.1, the Help|Content preferences URL is , so shouldn't it be as easy as changing that URL depending on the OS version required? (Preferably at a default *and* RSE connection level.)

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Aug 13, 2015

    "
    Can you clarify if you are looking just for multiple versions of the documentation be available from the Source->ILE RPG Help menu item?

    Or are you looking for the content assist, F1 language help and program verifier to also support multiple language versions."

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