Re: Clarification - confused consultant

Simon Coulter wrote:

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.

That's what we mean by "could not use it in SEU". What do you think we meant, Simon? The terminal would explode, killing the programmer? No, we mean that SEU will not recognize the new syntax, and unlike your example, it won't be fixed.

As long as the COMPILER finds nothing wrong with the source a program will be created.

Got nothing to do with the compiler. I could enter it with UPDDTA and get it to compile. Again, the syntax won't be recognized in SEU and never will. It will, however, be recognized in RDi.

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)?

Your primary console, in my case direct twinax.

Joe