About IBM IDE : Rational Developer for IBM i
Welcome to this lesson on Rational Developer for IBM i (RDi) IBM’s flagship modern IDE for developing, maintaining, and debugging applications on the IBM i platform. If you’ve spent years living inside SEU and PDM, you’re about to step into a world that feels like moving from a typewriter to a fully‑loaded creative studio.
RDi brings together everything a modern IBM i developer needs:
* a powerful editor with real‑time syntax checking
* integrated debugging tools
* outline views and code navigation
* refactoring support
* seamless interaction with source members, IFS files, and remote systems
In short, it’s the productivity boost many RPG and CL developers didn’t know they were missing.
Module Content
Welcome to this lesson on Rational Developer for IBM i (RDi) IBM’s flagship modern IDE for developing, maintaining, and debugging applications on the IBM i platform. If you’ve spent years living inside SEU and PDM, you’re about to step into a world that feels like moving from a typewriter to a fully‑loaded creative studio. RDi brings together everything a modern IBM i developer needs: * a powerful editor with real‑time syntax checking * integrated debugging tools * outline views and code navigation * refactoring support * seamless interaction with source members, IFS files, and remote systems In short, it’s the productivity boost many RPG and CL developers didn’t know they were missing.
IBM IDE : Rational Developer for IBM i
Free For All
Apply RDi License after trial period
Watch some English Bloke Download and Install IBM Rational Developer for IBM i
Launch RDi, Connect and Signon (PUB400 IBM i System)
Apply RDi License
Import DDS DSPF using RDi
Switching IBM RDi between Light and Dark themes is straightforward once you know where IBM hid the settings.
Back in the old days of old AS400 and iSERIES machines, we used to use SEU for editing program source code. It was good for its time (the eighties) but now we have something forty years newer and it called Rational Developer for IBM i. In IBM RDi, the Outline view is your real‑time map of the source member you’re editing. It breaks your code into a clean, structured list so you can jump around instantly without scrolling through hundreds (or thousands) of lines.