wdsc wishlist

Ok, here's the beginnings of a WDSC plug-in developers wish list ...

nice idea

1. Include Eclipse, SWT, & JFace Javadocs in the Eclipse online help.

is eclipse specific and not wdsc specific. and the help is included in
the help at eclipse http://help.eclipse.org/help32/index.jsp

2. Correctly link RSE provided widget Javadoc to the appropriate pages
in #1.

3. Include Javadoc for some of the handy utility functions & classes,
such as 'com.ibm.etools.systems.core.messages.SystemMessage'.

4. Include the SOURCE for Eclipse provided code when adding the

"Plug-in

dependencies" library to a project. For instance, when I add the
plug-in dependencies,

'org.eclipse.swt.win32.win32.x86_3.2.2.v3236.jar'

(among others) is added to the project. This is fine ... but the

source

attachment that this jar has is itself ... and the jar
'org.eclipse.swt.win32.win32.x86_3.2.2.v3236.jar' includes no source.
If you're trying to debug the behavior of something in eclipse (even

if

it's just to figure out how it's doing something), it's kind of hard

to

do it without the source.

5. Similar to #3, include a Javadoc reference for the attached JAR.
Obviously this would be best if it were to reference the included help
Javadoc, so we know it's the correct version.

5. Update the examples in the online help.

some things can not be changed within wdsc but need to be changed inside
of eclipse.

my wish list:
- add object description in view remote system explorer for the
displayed i5 objects (perhaps in a tabletreeviewer?) view like strpdm
(name | type | attr | desc)
- immediate outline like in java dev environment
- immediate warnings for possible compile errors like in java dev
environment
- faster runtime (still too slow even on a moderate machine)
- wdsc on linux
- userspace viewer/editor
- more features in IBM Toolbox for Java for RFML (like getting the
record length for a record with a count attribute in the RFML document)

thanx

Mihael Schmidt