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Andreas Gronert posted Mon September 01, 2025 06:49 AM

Hello,
we are working with 9.8.0.4 (20250303_1557) and do have a Source file like this
\QSYS.LIB\X_XLIB.LIB\RPG.FILE\T_5FINGER.RPGLE

When opening it is brought to..
<WS-Path>\RemoteSystemsTempFiles\IPKS\QSYS.LIB\X_5FXLIB.LIB\RPG.FILE\T_5F5FINGER.RPGLE

Note the additional 5F in library name and member name.

When hovering over the title at my laptop there is a tooltip showing...
ipks: X_5FXLIB/(T_F5FINGER.RPGLE)

My colleague has the exactly same RDi-Version and when he is opening the same file it also is brought to
<WS-Path>\RemoteSystemsTempFiles\IPKS\QSYS.LIB\X_5FXLIB.LIB\RPG.FILE\T_5F5FINGER.RPGLE

But when he hovers over the title it is shown as
ipks: X_5FXLIB/(T_5FF5FINGER.RPGLE)

Please note: In both cases the lib is shown as X_5FXLIB but the file is shown differently: In my case T_F5FINGER, i.e. the name from i and in my colleagues case T_5FF5FINGER the name from RemoteSystemsTempFiles-folder.

This is a problem as we do use the tool tip for a plugin to access the proper source identifier. We have allready tried to replace all occurrences of _5F by _ what may work if it is consistently. But it doesn't work as it is randomly shown once with and once without 5F

Any idea, why it is shown wrong and more problematic for us, why randomly and inconsistently?
Kind regards
Andreas Gronert


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Andreas Gronert posted Wed September 24, 2025 06:38 AM

Hello,
I would appreciate to get any answer from the RDi Developer Team. What must I do to get it?
Kind regards
Andreas Gronert

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Jack Woehr IBM Champion posted Wed September 24, 2025 11:01 AM

Hi @Andreas Gronert

In my experience generally the best way to get attention from the RDi team is to file a support case.

As you surely know, about 1/2 of the IBM i development community has switched to the IBM Code for i extension to VSCode.

There is lively discussion of Code for i daily in the message board at IBMiOSS.org

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Andreas Gronert posted Thu September 25, 2025 03:05 AM

Thanks Jack,
then I must ask our responsibles if they can open a support-ticket, because the support isn't bound to my account.

Or is there is there any other chance to get an answer here?
Kind regard
Andreas Gronert

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Jack Woehr IBM Champion posted Thu September 25, 2025 10:04 AM

We've had some luck getting answers from RDi developers on the Midrange.com WDSCI-L mailing list.

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ac posted Fri September 26, 2025 04:34 AM

Weird, being 5F the underscore character in hex on ascii coding.

When I see these kind of things maybe a look at ccsid (connection and members and profile) is worth a look. Maybe someone pasted weird characters from their workstation during creation.

By the way 9.8.0.6 is out don't know if that's better.

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