RE: Storing /Copy modules locally

When you "Verify", CODE/400 downloads everything it needs (including /COPY
books, DDS, etc.).  But it's stored in an unfriendly format with an
unfriendly name in WDT400\CACHE.  Verify works well if you're changing the
code in one member only; if you have /COPY books open and are changing a
couple of related source members, I don't know of a good way to force a
refresh of the cached-but-changed source (easiest way: make a dummy member
with the changed /COPY books only, "Verify with prompt", "Refresh cache",
wait for it to bomb, then go back and "Verify" your main member).

I suspect the WDT/400 team is aware of shortcoming with source management.
There may be a big emotional issue with having source not iSeries-resident;
there are compiler issues unless you remember *QINLINE (there may be issues
even if you do remember it!).  As of right now, source has to be on the
iSeries to get compiled.

IMHO, preprocessors are ungood.  Somebody else (maybe Bob Cozzi) offered a
coherent explanation of the problems with relying on preprocessors.  I know
it wasn't me...

-----Original Message-----
From: code400-l-admin@midrange.com [mailto:code400-l-admin@midrange.com]On
Behalf Of Brian D. James
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2001 3:40 PM
To: Code400
Subject: Storing /Copy modules locally

Hi all,

I don't think this feature exists but I will ask anyway. Does Code/400 have
a feature that will allow me to store all my source code including /Copy
modules locally and use them to create a complete compilable source member
whenever a compile is requested? I would like to off-load the source code to
my notebook but I use use /Copy modules extensively and so for now the lack
of this feature is a show stopper.

If this feature doesn't exist in CODE/400 then I think one could write a
preprocessor that would run on the PC to create the compilable source
member. Then, possibly a customized compile button could be added to the
tool bar to run the preprocessor and do the compile. I don't know enough
about how to extend CODE/400 at this point so I'll ask: What do you think?
Does this sound doable? Has anyone already done this?

Regards,

Brian

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