Re: Great McPress article today on setting up Compare/Merge on PC for IBM i source members.

Bryce

I suggest you try option 55 for sure - you might be surprised at how good it is. I'm all for using the graphical stuff, but this one is really handy for things I've needed to do.

54 is not so handy - maybe the printed output of compare is better, the screen output is a bit wonky.

Cheers
Vern

On 3/2/2011 12:20 PM, Bryce Martin wrote:

As far as the PDM 54/55 options... never used them. But I imagine it
would be not as nice since you can only see a limited number of lines.

I haven't tried to do any saving back to the system, so I'll have to set
something up to test that.

As far as source change dates go... once again I've never had a need for
them, so for me this is a non issue.

Thanks
Bryce Martin
Programmer/Analyst I
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Good article, yet I have some caveats and thoughts.

1. Michael Sansoterra does not mention option 55 in PDM - he does
compare WinMerge, the utility in question, to option 54, which is only a
compare. 55 is the merge, and it has the split-SEU screen. It has many
of the "advantages" Michael presents for the WinMerge app, such as
seeing the differences on the same screen, being able to move between
changes, all that.

He also mentions using the /QSYS.LIB/YOURLIB.LIB path for getting
members into the tool. I have had problems in the past with editing
source in, say TextPad, going through a mapped drive directly to a
source file. Sometimes, when saving it back, it cleaned out the source
member completely. This was NOT a nice thing to have happen. So I've
never gone this route, say, in the last 8 years. I much prefer the safer
route of WDSC/RDi/RDP.

Another possible problem with something like WinMerge will be source
change dates - I know that the SoftLanding plug-in changes all those
dates when you merge even one change - and I think you have to
copy/paste to get the change made - I've not done it for quite a while.
Some could say that this change date is less important now, maybe it
isn't. I still like having it, since there isn't a diff tool or SVN-ish
thing for library-based source members.

Last word or words - BACKUP! BACKUP! BACKUP!

Vern

On 3/2/2011 8:59 AM, Bryce Martin wrote:

The article can be found here....

http://www.mcpressonline.com/programming/rpg/synchronize-your-source-files.html

I emailed the author just to let him know that it might be helpful to
mention that when you do the /QSYS.LIB/MYLIB part in setting up the new
share that you need to make sure you put the .LIB on the end of MYLIB.

It

should look like this... /QSYS.LIB/BMARTIN.LIB

Other than that, it works great.


Thanks
Bryce Martin
Programmer/Analyst I
570-546-4777
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