Re: Content Assist (Ctl/Space) Field text description from DDS suggestion

nice

Based on you doing all that you didn't expect IBM to be coming along with any immediate enhancements to WDSI/RDP to provide what you've done?

One thing I've always wanted without going to a third party tool outside of RDP was a function like JavaDoc that was accessible inside RDP where upon you could define your subprocedures and procedures and would be viewable in the application diagram view as an example. I've proposed this before but never really got many on the list to buy into the idea. I envisioned that you would use some new comment definition in your RPG that the RDP would pickup and generate a form of javadoc or should I say RPGDOC.

Andy
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Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Content Assist (Ctl/Space) Field text description from DDS suggestion


To document our exported procedures, we created an application that read the source and used the argument in the LIKE keyword to go and get the DDS definition from the data dictionary. This was done with RPG generating XML. All the information is then accessible via a php application on the internet browser. The outline also generates XML which you can find in your workspace. I say anything I can do IBM should do better.

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description from DDS suggestion

Andy

I agree, but I won't hold my breath. RPG has never pulled
that information in, so far as I know. Also, I think (guess)
that Content Assist (and outline) get their information from
something like a compile *NOGEN. Basically from the compile
listing. They'd have to go to system tables to add that
information, doable but an extra step.

I'd also like to see parameter names, if present, on
procedures. I don't think they are there now, only
attributes. I could be wrong, maybe newer versions have it.

Vern

On 11/4/2010 6:24 AM, Andy Hautamaki wrote:
> Does anyone else think it would be a good idea when using
the Content
> Assist that not only will it show the field attributes but
also pull
> in the field text description from the dds?
>
> Thanks
> Andy Hautamaki
>
>
>
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