Re: Remote Systems Explorer in RDP - What would you do to make it better ? -- MIDRANGE-L

I would like that RDP would simply WORK for my day-to-day activities.

I don't care about fancy diagrams for the demo room.

I would like that i can move my object filters up or down, ad advertised.
This is broken, for ages already.
Etc etc

Right now, i'm using 8.0.1, and - hey - content assist works! Sometimes....
But what's with the Ctrl-Enter key??
I can choose the menu option, which sometimes works.
But the Ctrl-enter key doesn't (yes key bindings yes whatever it should
work out of the box!!)
Do i need it? no not really.

I would like to have fixed the unwanted selection of text (now i need to do
Alt-U to get rid of it).
This bug is there for at least ten years already. It will never get fixed.
Annoying.

Now i can't read DDS (display) files because of some memory leakage bug, or
a runaway thread, or both

The thing is sometimes soooo slow when i open a DDS file that i can't even
move the cursor without waiting for 1 sec.

RDP is better than SEU yes. EVERYTHING is better than SEU.

I would expect some quality software from IBM, ESPECIALLY IF IT'S f*NG
payed for.

Why is IBM i such a quality system.
And why do i get such lousy development tools.

Yes it;s better that SEU (everything is better than SEU).

And yes RPGIV is soo good..... compared to RPGIII yes. Everything is better
than RPGIII, even branfuck

sorry for the rant but it's such a really bad quality software that i'm
ashamed to "sell" to my fellow developers who want to stay on SEU.
Well can't blame them.

For me, i really can't stand the sight of SEU anymore.
Besides i get paid by the hour so why i'm complaining?

On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 7:52 PM, Richard Schoen <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

As part of my SVN modernization evening project I am going to probably
create a new component that can function similar to Remote Systems Explorer
to front end RDP editing, but would like to improve on the overall user
experience.

I welcome any input on usability features you would like to see in RSE
that isn't there today.

Some examples I can think of:
-Browsing source in table view only supports one view at a time today.
Give me ability to open multiple views.
-Let me highlight a source member and quickly specify a destination system
to move it to without having to browse and do a bunch of clicking. Today
it's faster for me to use my custom PDF options to move source than it is
to use RSE for moving members.
-Let me open a PC source member and do a save as or push to i quickly
without forcing me to check out an iProject first. This would streamline
the process once we flip to SVN/PC First editing. Also let it remember last
options used.

I will consider all input as I put together requirements and determine if
I really want to build this component.

The goal is to use RDP for the process as much as possible, so this could
end up being its own plugin or simple EXE command line options that can be
called from RSE/RDP or it might end up being a Windows Explorer-Like
interface that lets me work in that UI but easily interface to the i and
RDP for editing.

If anyone is going to COMMON this Spring in April I would be happy to
arrange for face-to-face discussion on this as well as using SVN with the i
as we will be down the road with our initial SVN i deployment.

Thanks in advance for any input.

Regards,
Richard Schoen
RJS Software Systems Inc.
Where Information Meets Innovation
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Intelligence
Email: richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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