Re: COBOL support in RDi?

Snipped from Jon's message:

... they tend to be even more stick-in-the-mud about using "modern" tools than RPGers.

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Is that even possible? ;-)



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From: WDSCI-L [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jon Paris
Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2015 4:08 PM
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Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] COBOL support in RDi?

Well the Outline view is a lot less useless than it used to be <grin>

Difficult to tell how much IBM will up the level of COBOL support. There are a much smaller number of COBOL developers than RPG and, in my experience, they tend to be even more stick-in-the-mud about using "modern" tools than RPGers.

You can always open RFEs of course. But as far as what to request, your best bet is to find out exactly what features the mainframe (Z) version of Rational Developer has in its Outline view that RDi doesn't have and ask for those. You have a reasonable chance of getting those.


Jon Paris

www.partner400.com
www.SystemiDeveloper.com

On Jul 23, 2015, at 4:34 PM, Dan <dan27649@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Has anyone ever submitted an RFE for IBM to support COBOL in RDi at
the same level as it does for RPG?

I could really use this. Two missing features that are really hitting
me hard are
1) lack of definition display when hovering over a field/variable name
in the source and
2) almost useless outline view

- Dan
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