Re: Rational Developer losing source code

[Alan Campin <alan0307d@xxxxxxxxx>]

Well, I am glad to know I am not the only guy to have the problem. Was
beginning to think I was losing my mind. Oh wait, there it is running down
the hall.

On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 10:27 AM, Richard Schoen <
Richard.Schoen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I have had this issue at least once with every version of WDSC up to RDI.
>
> Always random but painful.
>
> I always make a habit of checking via PDM after a source member has
> changed/saved from RDI before its closed just in case.
>
> At RJS we had a mechanism in place to also capture current copies of
> source upon open as well in case any code got lost after an RDI change.
>
> Having a 99% chance of success is still too much of a margin for error
> especially when you've lost hours of work like you and I have 😊
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Richard Schoen
> Director of Document Management
> e. richard.schoen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> p. 952.486.6802
> w. helpsystems.com
>
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>
> message: 1
> date: Thu, 6 Apr 2017 12:46:18 -0700
> from: Alan Campin <alan0307d@xxxxxxxxx>
> subject: Rational Developer losing source code
>
> I am running version 9.5.1.1 of Rational Developer For IBM I.
>
> Has anyone had a problem with Rational deciding to pull an earlier version
> of code. I didn't think such a thing was possible.
>
> I wrote hundreds of lines of code over the last few days and finished up a
> section last night and very carefully saved that source code last night
> before I shutdown.
>
> This morning I open the code and all this new code over 3 days is gone!!
> By the appearances of it, Rational pulled the code from some old copy. None
> of that makes any sense but I pretty well know that must be what happened
> because I looked at the code through SEU last night before I shutdown and
> it was there.
>
> Anybody else run into anything like this?
>
> I just tried making some changes and it saved them OK.
>
>
>
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