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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
This feature is now available in the IBM Rational Developer for Power Systems Software V8.5 product with V8.5.1 fixpack installed.
Fix List: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27024934
Readme doc: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27036323
Download doc: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24033611
The content assist information is automatically updated.
Thank you for taking the time to suggest this enhancement to our product.
This request is approved and planned for delivery within the next year or next generally available release. Extra consideration has been given to this enhancement because of the number of votes it has received in the community. Your votes help us prioritize enhancements, particularly when the enhancements are larger. Thank you for taking the time to suggest this enhancement to our product and for your votes.
This RFE will be under consideration for a future release. Status has been updated to Uncommitted Candidate.
This RFE is consistent with our strategy and product roadmap and IBM is continuing to evaluate.
Most Java and .Net IDEs have this capability. If we want to make RPG more accessible to that developer pool, this feature is critical. It's also a pretty good carrot to help coax existing RPG developers off of SEU.
Live update of outline is great - but not having it reflected in the context assist is frustrating.
Live update of outline is great - but not having it reflected in the context assist is frustrating.
YES, I use Content Assist like 900 times as much as the outline (since I discovered ctrl-shift-F5 a few years back I don't even look at the outline anymore).
I second the comment above
Great idea. If we want to play in this game we need to keep our development environment as up to date with our competitors as is possible.
RPG is great language and the more we can improve RDP the easier it is to attract new people and convert the existing developers.
Bring it on.
+1 to both of the previous comments. This RFE would be fantastic as Content Assist is on of the most used features in RDP at our shop. The only reason I go to the outline view currently is to refresh my Content Assist!!
I fully endorse this RFE. We have 30+ developers using RDP exclusively and the lack of real-time updates feeding into Content Assist is a MAJOR handicap. With RDP 8.5 we thought this long-standing limitation with the product had been addressed. It appears not.
From a developer point of view there is no real benefit to the live Outline view refresh if Content Assist can't see those updates.
The sooner this is available the better - the outline view refresh is fairly pointless without the Content Assist auto update.