Re: Clarification - confused consultant

On 19/06/2008, at 11:22 PM, Joe Pluta wrote:

Andy Hautamaki wrote:

Barbara;

Would that mean if say in V6R2 a new BIF was added you could not use it in
SEU?

That's exactly what it means, Andy.

That's simply not true! SEU will behave exactly as it has in the past when a new feature/keyword has been added to a language (possibly via PTF) but SEU was not updated at the same time. That is; you can still use SEU, you can use the new BIF or Op-code, SEU may flag a syntax error but you can save the source in spite of the errors and compile. As long as the COMPILER finds nothing wrong with the source a program will be created.

I do this even now because SEU doesn't always like my constructs. For example:

/if defined(FBN_USE_PREFIX )
D fbnConvert PR 8F
/else
D convert PR 8F
/endif
D EXTPROC('fbnConvert')

The compiler is quite happy with that construct but SEU complains about the final line:

Keyword is not allowed for a parameter definition; keyword is ignored.

SEU is interpreting the line as part of a parameter definition when it is really part of the PR.

I'm curious cause this might push the remaining developers in our shop to
use WDSC/RDI........

And that's the ultimate goal. IBM wants to stop supporting two sets of
tooling for the i. They'd like everyone to get onto the Rational tools.

I'm still a little concerned as anybody that what happens when your
network goes down and you need to do some work on your box. At this
point, you can at least still use SEU. Several releases down the road
that might not be the case, at least not with full syntax checking.
Eventually SEU will become more like EDTF in that it won't catch syntax
errors (or probably more likely it will see errors that don't exist).

So the network is down killing your client IDE to host connectivity. Why would this not also kill your emulator to host connectivity? Or are you thinking of some other form of connexion that doesn't involve the network (such as private HMC link)?


Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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