Re: RPGILE Template source code

On 3/20/2013 4:22 PM, Booth Martin wrote:

What am I missing? Is "IBM Rational Developer for i" not available in
most shops doing development work?

Right. I've heard rumours of companies using something other than SEU
but never encountered one in the wild. I've been the hardy pioneer for
the last 3 of my employers.

Isn't this an issue, at the very
most, of dragging and dropping one's desired work space onto a
thumbdrive and then dragging and dropping from that thumbdrive to the
client assigned to you at the new location? (With appropriate
permissions, of course.)

You can point RDp at the thumb drive if you want to, and then just keep
using it there no matter what your current work location is. Just don't
mix and match the employer's source and yours (for reasons of
intellectual property law).

My bet is that I am missing some important piece of the process.

My toolkit consists of a two general parts. Boilerplate code like
subfile templates, SQL templates and prototypes for various IBM APIs is
all source code - no real object code. Copy/paste works fine for this
sort of stuff, even if I open it on the thumb drive with Notepad++ (on
the thumb drive!) and paste it screen by screen into SEU. I use
something in this category every day.

The other part is compiled utilities like a command-line SQL interface
(allows SELECT too), a program index generator, some object analysis
tooling and all the strange proof of concept stuff I've done over the
years. Things like implementations of various IBM APIs like List
Spooled Files, List Jobs and so on. This gets used on an 'as needed'
basis, and it would probably be more work than it's worth to copy this
stuff in screen by screen and compile it when I think one would save a
lot of time. It's a judgment call.

Before "IBM Rational Developer for i" though, I made sure
the code snippets I wanted were in sample programs on my web
site and I could just copy & paste from there, as needed.

Strangely enough, I've run into more places restricting internet access
than FTP. Oddly enough, management sometimes sees the internet as a
distraction from 'real work.'

--buck