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The CAAC has reviewed this requirement and recommends that IBM view this as a medium priority requirement that should be addressed. RDi should behave like other IDEs to make it easier for developers who are familiar with other IDE tools. Although the hover feature gives some of the functionality, it is not enough.
Background: The COMMON Americas Advisory Council (CAAC) members have a broad range of experience in working with small and medium-sized IBM i customers. CAAC has a key role in working with IBM i development to help assess the value and impact of individual RFEs on the broader IBM i community, and has therefore reviewed your RFE.
For more information about CAAC, see www.common.org/caac
Nancy Uthke-Schmucki - CAAC Program Manager
Seems to me there is some of this behavior already in RDi. The outline seems to know what's in the /includes, and there are times that I have been brought to the source of the /includes, I don't recall exactly how or when, maybe in a search for the same selected value, or when navigating with Alt-Left and Alt-Right.
I like the idea of making this more obvious.
Although the theme of this request is consistent with our business strategy, it is not committed to the release that is currently under development.
Personally, I think this is too big an ask for RDi. There are 3rd-party tools out there for Change Management / Version Control which already support this level of function.
The use of Binding Directories is optional, so cannot be relied upon to furnish accurate information.
Requiring RDi to "reverse map" the source code from the final object build - when the build may have been achieved in so many different ways - is far too complex.
Change Management tools are the correct place for this because they have the build relationships defined for the specific application. Some CM tools even have relevant plug-ins for RDi which may meet this requirement.
I would much prefer that RDi development dollars be spent on more productive features such as a "Save List" facility for the Remote Scratchpad!