Re: PDM vs RDp/RDi was: Great McPress article today on setting up Compare/Merge on PC for IBM i source members.

On 3/3/2011 12:59 PM, Jeff Young wrote:

Bryce,
The printed output of the list of members found is useful in a number of ways.
Without the printed output, you can not get a list of members matching your
search criteria.
This output can then be used to construct a filter in RDp for work on the
members, or just as a reference to where your search criteria is used.

Using RDp, you can not copy the list of members generated from a search.
Also, when searching a single source file to obtain a list of members matching
your search, PDM is much faster than RDp.

Technically you can but it's a pain. You have to collapse every one of your searches (you can do this with keystrokes: select the top one, then left-arrow, down-arrow, left-arrow, down-arrow, repeat until done). Then, select the whole list and copy. You'll end up with a list in your clipboard that looks like this:

AP0001.rpg
AP0002.rpgle
AP1010C.clp

And so on.

NOT a good answer, but it's at least something.

Joe