RE: Weird Websphere Studio side effect

> From: James H H Lampert
> 
> Fellow Geeks:
> 
> We just had to deal with a slightly mangled source member
> on a customer box, that had evidently been on the
> receiving end of some sort of forced programmatic change
> to RPG/Free.

What does "slightly mangled" mean?  What does "some sort of forced
programmatic change to RPG/Free" mean?


> We're told that all that was done was that the file was
> opened in Websphere Studio.

You've got a bit of a terminology issue here, since neither WebSphere Studio
Site Developer nor WebSphere Studio Application Developer have an RPG source
editor.  They are Web development tools.  If you mean WebSphere Development
Studio Client for iSeries, the correct short name is WDSC.


> Since we're not a Websphere Studio shop, we have no idea
> what went on.

As I noted before, a WebSphere Studio shop is not an RPG shop.  A WDSC shop
might be.


> Has anybody else ever heard of anything like this
> happening?

No.


> Does anybody know, other than not opening the
> source members in anything but SEU or EDTF, how to keep it
> from happening?

Keep everything on punch cards.  Read them into an MFCU whenever you need to
compile.

Joe