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I do the same thing, and keep customer's work separated the same way.
Projects just have never really made my life easier, maybe since I don't use
them much or I don't have multiple people but the filters and connections
seem to work well.

--
Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects


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Sent: Thursday, December 26, 2013 1:10 PM
To: Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio Client for
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I tried the "Projects" way, and it has some issues. I found a better way.
I use connections for environments, like Development-All, ERP-Production,
and ERP-Test as examples. Each "connection" has a library list associated
with it. I then use filter pools defined as "Active", "On-Hold", and
"Closed" to indicate project status and give me somewhere to keep completed
projects. Within the "Active" filter pool, I create filters where I specify
each member directly, but I make the library *USRLIBL. Through the magic of
filters and pools, each of these filters and pools is linked in each
connection through the magic of how RSE works, so I can see my source at
production and at development. I use the "Object Table" in unlocked mode,
so that I see the list of source members for the project I'm working on and
work with members that way.

As projects change status, the filters can be right-clicked and moved to a
different filter pool/status such as "Closed."




From: whatt sson <whattssonn@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio
Client for System i & iSeries" <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 12/23/2013 11:09 AM
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Promoting WDSCi, RDp and/or RDi
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I have not used it, i'm planning to, but instead of editing file members
directly (the old PDM approach) i think it maybe works better if using
"projects". I.e., sources are edited locally, and then pushed to the server
periodically. This is the preferred way anyway.

But this requires that collegues also adopt the "projects" way.


On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 12:16 PM, Paul Bailey <PaulBailey@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:


I've been using WDSCi/RDi/RDp (from now on, just RDi) for many years,
and I have been the primary (if not sole) driver in getting my
colleagues to use it.

In discussions with my colleagues I point out the features that make
things easier, the tools that could make their programming lives just
a little better. This is a tough argument because SEU/PDM still does
things that can't be done in RDi, but I usually have a 50% success
rate in the number of colleagues adopting RDi. The facts that SEU is
now static even
if
RPG is not, and the general usage of an Eclipse tool will help
advance/expand their careers and skillsets are also strong arguments.
The learning curve is a downside, but I try to skirt around that.

I'm under time constraints all the time. It takes an hour or more to
install and/or upgrade RDi and that time is often precious and needed
elsewhere, so at the moment I am the only user in my company using the
latest version (9.0.1). Two of my colleagues are still using v8.5 and
today
*both* of them came across the bug where source was saved in RDi but
didn't
turn up on the IBM i (no errors, the source just didn't get
transferred.) There were tantrums, rants and toys were thrown out of
prams (slight exaggeration, but you get the idea?) and now both are
refusing to use the tool until it is updated. Their faith in the tool,
and in my advice, has been damaged.

I guess I am just venting my frustration here and I apologise for
bending your ears (screens?) but I am just wondering how successful
others are at getting their colleagues to use the tool. What are your
best arguments
for
all the SEU-fanboi nay-saying, and how do you recover from
faith-damaging errors such as the one my colleagues suffered today?


-Paul.


PS Can I get some commission from IBM for being the only person in
four different companies over the past 10-15 years that has championed
RDi?




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