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Status Delivered
Categories Client Install
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 28, 2011

Compiled Debug preference screen needs alignment to show how it works properly

Compiled Debug preference screen needs alignment to show how it works properly. Under the ?Debugger Editor' section there are five options:

Always use Debugger Editor while debugging
Load entire source file content
Allow hover evaluation
Double-click in Debugger Editor to add monitored expression
Center view on execution line

The way they are displayed it makes them look as though they work indpendantly, but in fact if the first box is not checked none of the others are processed. Unless the 'Always use Debugger Editor while debugging' is selected, none of the other options in that section work. This is very confusing. David Gross at IBM told me in a service center ticket I opened:


GROSS, DAVID A7/21/11 11:03 PM
Hello Mike. This is confusing and I don't blame you. There should be indentation in those Preferences. What I mean is, within the Compiled Debug preferences, you must first put a checkmark in the first line "Always use Debugger Editor while debugging". Then the following four checkboxes will be recognized. If only those four that follow were indented to the right you would know that they are subordinate to
the "Always use..." It should be like this with the subordinate four
greyed out until the first one is checked.
|_| Always use Debugger Editor while debugging
|_| Load entire source file content
|_| Allow hover evaluation
|_| Double-click in Debugger Editor to add monitored expression
|_| Center view on execution line


I believe this should be done. It is a very simple change and would reflect how it is supposed to work.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    Sep 14, 2015

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Programming Languages
    Product - Developer for System z

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Rational
    Product family - Design & development
    Product - Developer for System z

  • Guest
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    Oct 19, 2011

    Delivered in recent RDz release

  • Guest
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    Aug 6, 2011

    This RFE is being evaluated for delivery in the next release of RDz. Thanks.