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Status Future consideration
Workspace IBM i
Categories RDi (Rational Developer for i)
Created by Guest
Created on Feb 18, 2020

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Auto Generate file open for RPG IV

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I can generate Procedures, D-Specs, and Java Method Calls from a right click menu in the LPEX editor for RPG. It would be useful if I could generate file opens as well.

It should work like this:
1. Right click in the editor, and select New -> File open...
2. Dialog opens showing check list of global file definitions.
3. Developer selects files to generate open blocks.
4. On OK, the following open block is generated for each selected file at the cursor location.

if not %open(filename);
open filename;
endif;

This is necessary because in ILE, depending on the activation group, global files may not be open, and they are not necessarily opened on program entry. I see this most often when ACTGRP(*Caller) is used.

I could shift to ACTGRP(*New), but I don't necessarily want to do that for every program, and named activation groups can exhibit this problem as well.


Use Case:

See Description.


Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jun 19, 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
    |     Mar 9, 2020

    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
    |     Feb 21, 2020

    I do use snippets, a lot, but if you have a dozen files, and you don't have them all memorized, it takes longer to going back and forth to find the next file name than it does to type one, copy it a dozen times, and then go back and type over all the file names.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Feb 19, 2020

    Use snippits.

    Jason

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