Re: EGL vs. Java

I think more of what Dave would be looking for is an ad-hoc filter where you
could simply start typing the name of a member for a given source physical
file and it would begin narrowing down the results. Personally I would love
to have a feature like that. When I am in PDM the first thing I do is
"setll" to the member by entering a value in the "Position to" field.

Dave, note also that it seems the latest versions of WDSC are more
performant for RSE lists. Not sure if I am seeing things or if it is
because I now have a big PC to run it.

Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com

-----Original Message-----
From: wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Joe Pluta
Sent: Friday, February 01, 2008 1:30 PM
To: Websphere Development Studio Client for iSeries
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] EGL vs. Java

Dave Shaw wrote:

I agree with Tom. I'll happily give up SEU, SDA, and RLU, but until

there's

a graphical interface that provides sub-second access to thousands of
objects or members without building a filter first, PDM is a very valuable

tool. You don't want to know how long it takes RSE to list the handful of

source files (with, as I said, thousands of members) in our production
source library on a simple drill-down.

Dave, I'm wondering why you have to qualify this with "without building
a filter first". Once you have a filter, access is very fast. And you
only need to refresh them when someone adds a new member.

How often do you actually have to page through a source file to find a
member? Is it possible that filters would actually make your job
easier? I'm not meaning to poke, because I know its not joyous to run
through large lists in RSE, but the point of filters is that your job
shouldn't require you to run through large lists on a regular basis -
that's more of a 5250 artifact.

I'm eyeing this change with a bit of dread. Our machines are P50s with
roughly 150 developers. I could see someone deciding that everyone gets
ADTS only as a cost-saving measure. It would be so much easier to argue

the

case for getting RDi for those of us who want to use it if PDM wasn't part

of the equation so that we would never need ADTS again...

I guess maybe I don't understand the need for paging through source
files, and even if you do need that, I don't understand why refreshing
the filter once a day, say when you log on, isn't enough.

By the way, does the table view help you at all? I like it because I
can sort the list and dynamically subset by text strings and so on. It
really makes things a lot easier for green screeners.

Joe