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Status Future consideration
Workspace IBM i
Categories RDi (Rational Developer for i)
Created by Guest
Created on Jan 25, 2023

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Export LPEX Outline View

The content of the LPEX Outline view should be exportable. It would be a great basis for application documentation—even better if the context help for procedures/fields/constants would be included. JSON or XML would be fine maybe also a readable format like HTML.


I was not the first having this idea. There was an RFE about the same topic in 2016, but it had been declined because of the prospects to have RPG Docs supported in the future (originally the future of 2012).

https://ibm-power-systems.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/IBMI-I-424

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    |     Mar 2, 2023

    Thanks for pointing out IleDocs. The Halcyon Visual Studio Code extension uses the IleDocs syntax to enhance the context help if I understand it correctly; that’s great, but still no export. IleDocs looks great, especially the examples I saw in its Sourceforge wiki. However, I’m quite sure I am not able to install the current version of IleDocs from Bitbucket in the near future, it’s all Greek to me.

    PS: RDi team, what did you mean by "iDoc"—was it just short for IleDocs or is there an RDi feature, I missed so far?

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Feb 27, 2023

    So IleDocs is an expansion of RPGDocs that is gaining wider acceptance https://halcyon-tech.github.io/docs/#/pages/developing/iledocs

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Feb 27, 2023
    .Although the theme of this request is consistent with our business strategy, it is not committed to the release that is currently under development.

    IBM Power Systems Development - RDi team
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Feb 21, 2023

    I apologize, I’m not familiar with iDoc, and a web search only resulted in an SAP tool with the same name, so I don’t understand your question.

    The export should provide procedure names and information such as return value names and types, parameter names and types and the comments adjacent to the prototype definition (as the context help does); also file definitions (in the future hopefully including files, that are used in embedded sql). Work variables and constants need not be included—for my purposes.

    PS: The only one who seems to have heard about "iDoc" is chatGPT—but they could not provide a single working link to an iDoc documentation or even a mention. But you are human, right? :-)

  • Guest
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    |     Feb 17, 2023
    We need more information to evaluate this Idea. Do you see the data being used differently than iDoc information? Because the outline has very detailed data, vs iDoc which will include comments, return variables and parameters.

    IBM Power Systems Development - RDi team

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