Re: SEU and V7R1.

On 6/17/2013 6:48 PM, Alan Campin wrote:

I can't believe this has not come up before. Maybe I am blind.

Looking at the articles on the new V7R1 features that Kurt sent out I see
this gem!

Here's what's really interesting: SEU's syntax checking has been frozen at
the 6.1 level! That means that SEU will not recognize any of the 7.1
enhancements and will detect these new features as errors.

This is a disaster!

This is really old news :-(

Both my current company and the previous company have refused to buy the
RDI tools and at $1,660 bucks I am not too surprised! Unless you work in a
shop where they will spend the $1700 bucks per developer plus maintenance
you are effectively locked out of using V7R1 features unless we turn off
syntax checking. A big reduction in productivity.

Anybody know of any efforts to get checking turned back on in V7R1?

Not likely after the grief IBM took over freezing it in the first place.

Were I in your shoes, I'd use Notepad++ over SEU. Download the source
member and edit it on the PC then upload it back and compile up there.
Here's an example of a very old Windows batch file that'll do the
download. Upload is similar and you can jam a CRTRPGMOD command in
there if you like.

@rem download a source member
@echo off
del script.txt
rem create script file
rem supply user ID
echo user itmc > script.txt
rem supply password. It's been encrypted by GPG.
gpg -d p.gpg >> script.txt
rem tell the script what source member to get
rem example is dl buck/qrpglesrc.buck buck.rpgle
echo get %1 %2 >> script.txt
echo quit >> script.txt
rem execute the script
ftp -n -s:script.txt as400.nysut.local
rem delete the script so that no one can read the password
del script.txt
rem edit the downloaded file
"c:\Program Files\Notepad++\notepad++" %2

--buck