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Workspace IBM i
Categories RDi (Rational Developer for i)
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 3, 2017

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Allow Refactor Rename to wrap lines when the new length is longer than the record length

When using the Refactor>Rename on ILE RPG, it is possible for the length of the line to exceed the record length of the original line.
In this case RDi should break the line at an appropriate place and wrap it onto a new line.

It would be ideal if there was some formatting preferences that would allow the user to indicate where they would prefer the long lines to be broken and reflowed with subsequent lines.


Use Case:

Refactor>Rename can grow the length of a line. This is true for extended factor 2 in fixed form, keyword area in fixed from D, F, H, and P specs, free form at column 80. fully free form at the record length of the source physical. Optionally fully free form should respect the preference for line length, if set.

For example, the following file fills the whole 80 columns:
FFILE1 O E PRINTER EXTFILE(extFileVariable1) OFLIND(ovf)

After renaming 'ovf' to 'overflowInd' this will exceed 80.
The current implementation will stop with an error message explaining the limitation.
We want to see this:
FFILE1 O E PRINTER EXTFILE(extFileVariable1)
OFLIND(overflowInd)


Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jan 15, 2024
    This Idea was delivered in RDi 9.8.0.1.

    IBM Power Systems Development - RDi team
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Oct 5, 2020

    We have reviewed this requirement and we feel it would be a beneficial enhancement to the product. We hope to be able to add it to our development plans in the future.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Aug 24, 2017

    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 10, 2017

    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
    Component - RPG/COBOL Development Tools
    Operating system - IBM i
    Source - Client

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Power Systems
    Product - IBM i
    Component - Application Development
    Operating system - IBM i
    Source - Client

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Aug 10, 2017

    With agreement from Submitter KenKillian, IBM has modified some of the information in this request. Please contact us if you have any questions.

    Previous headline was: "refactor rename work on **free".

    Previews description was: "Allow refactor rename for rdi to work on **free with code starting in column-01, without punch card restrictions. Allow it to work when free-format code is defined on several lines of Free Format code."

    Previous Use case was:"Renaming across line boundaries is not supported. Cannot rename "Create_xml_input" on line 1874: "XML_Input = Create_XML_Input( OldOrd".

    Here is my code:

    XML_Input = Create_XML_Input( OldOrd // Line 1874
    : NewOrd
    : OldRteParts
    : NewRteParts
    )
    ;

    So, I assume that refactor does not support code that goes across multiple Lines?"

  • Guest
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    |     Aug 3, 2017

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