Re: RDI Opening Local PC File from Command Line Switch

It is missing the where used/where modified details that RDi Outline has.

It also allows for a few additional/alternative ways of locating references etc. I find it useful but do miss the RDi used/modified information.


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On Jul 9, 2025, at 1:59 PM, Marco Facchinetti <marco.facchinetti@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Daniel, I never saw VsCode outline view equivalent, is it good?

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Il giorno mer 9 lug 2025 alle ore 19:27 Daniel Gross <daniel@xxxxxxxx> ha
scritto:

Hi David, Hi Richard,

I created an idea, to open a member (or IFS file) in a running RDi
instance from an external point.

https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/IBMI-I-613

But the idea idles on "Future Consideration" since July 2021 - so I don't
have much hope, that it will come anytime soon.

In my opinion IBM has shifted all new development to VSCode / Code for i -
and I don't know how many new features will come to RDi in the future. Sure
IBM will update the syntax checker to support new RPG %BIFs or statements -
but I don't think it will be much more.

We are definitely thinking about switching to VSCode in the next 1 or 2
years. Right now we are only waiting for our change management system to
get it's own VSCode plugin.

Regards,
Daniel

Am 09.07.2025 um 19:06 schrieb David Gibbs via WDSCI-L <

wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

On Thu, Jul 3, 2025 at 8:03 PM Richard Schoen <

richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Can I pass a local PC file name and have RDI open it directly the same

way I can with other editors ?

Keep in mind that RDi uses Eclipse as it's framework, and it's a very
heavy framework.

There are ways to open a file when launching eclipse (see

https://help.eclipse.org/latest/index.jsp?topic=%2Forg.eclipse.platform.doc.isv%2Fguide%2Fproduct_open_file.htm
),

but I don't think that works well when eclipse is being used as an
IDE, as it has a workspace associated with it.

Even if it were possible, launching eclipse and all it's plugin's is
going to take quite a while just to edit a file.

david

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