Re: srcmbr utility. -- MIDRANGE-L

If you are on V5R1 and you are on "software subscription", you can
order the new WDSc 4.0 (WebSphere Development Studio client),
that replaces the older WDS/400 (WebSphere Development Studio),
based on Eclipse. Eclipse has built-in visual source compare tools,
so I think you will get everything you are looking for, without having
to "re-invent the wheel." (You can download Eclipse for free from
www.eclipse.org since it is an "open source" project.) WDSc adds
the "iSeries perspective" on top of Eclipse, which "knows about"
AS/400 specific "stuff" like OS/400 libraries, source physical files,
members, and "legacy" languages like RPG and CL. Enjoy!

Hint: WDSc is almost 100% written in Java, so it can run on Linux
as well as Macs or WinTel boxes. Therefore, you may need a pretty
"beefy" PC (>= 1GHz Pentium, >= 1GB RAM) for it to run really
well (due to Java interpreter and JIT compiler overhead).

----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin Rowe" <martin@dbg400.net>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 1:24 AM
Subject: Re: srcmbr utility.


On Tuesday 13 August 2002 10:45 pm, Hatzenbeler, Tim wrote:

> Before I write this little tool, I was just wondering, if any one else
> may already have one....
>
> I'm using some PC programs to compare the difference in source files,
> but to get the rpg source code to the PC I have to download the source
> member to the PC, so I can view the file...
>
> The tool I'm looking for is something like this...
>
> Library
> TimDev
> Source PF
> Custom
> Members
> prg1
> prg2
> prg3
>
> What I would like to do is, have a tool export these source members to
> the IFS and create these files.
> ../TimDev/Custom/prg1.rpgle
> ../TimDev/Custom/prg2.rpgle
> ../TimDev/Custom/prg3.rpgle
>
> And convert them to *pc files ... Any such tool? I have no desire to
> re-import these files back to the source member, I don't want to loose
> my change dates.

Hi Tim

I wrote some utilities at work to open up a PC text editor[1] for a
single source member, or to compare a pair of them, both done with PDM
options. I keep the change dates in the source so the source code can be
restored with another PDM option. I'm part way through packaging them for
download from my site, so if you don't get a suitable solution in the
meantime, you could nag me to get them finished ;)

Regards, Martin
[1] I use Vim on Linux, as the diff mode on that is excellent (and it's a
cracking editor anyway), but a colleague uses JEdit in Windows - both
projects on sourceforge, but also with their own .org sites too. I'll get
my colleague to take a look at Windiff -it sounds good.
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