RE: IBM i 7.6 Development tools -- RPG400-L

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From: RPG400-L <rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Jeff
Crosby
Sent: Tuesday, 15 April 2025 12:39 AM
To: RPG programming on IBM i <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: IBM i 7.6 Development tools

Question of ignorance.

The only thing I use STRSDA for is green screen menus. Are you saying this
can be done in RDi? Commands behind the options too?

On Mon, Apr 14, 2025 at 10:20 AM Vern Hamberg via RPG400-L <
rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> An additional benefit of using screens in RDi - you can save them with
> different data sets, including indicators.
>
> *Regards*
>
> *Vern Hamberg*
>
> IBM Champion 2025 <cid:part1.wMcOfaz9.aSQLMxjn@centurylink.net> CAAC
> (COMMON Americas Advisory Council) IBM Influencer 2023
>
> On 4/14/2025 9:14 AM, Vern Hamberg via RPG400-L wrote:
> > Hi Brian
> >
> > I have sometimes used the "preview" function, I usually would enter
> > STRSDA, prompt it, and take option 3. One can do the same in PDM
> > with the 17 option, prompt it there.
> >
> > But I was about to mention to Patrik the ability to create screens
> > in RDi - it is, IMHO, very similar to STRSDA opt 3, in that you add
> > record formats in both cases. In the latter, you can enter test data
> > - I've not found a way to enter multiple rows of a subfile, and you
> > can only add test data for the final record being written out.
> >
> > In RDi, we can create - I believe - data for everything, including
> > rows of a subfile - and the output of these will look very much like
> > the 5250 screen.
> >
> > *Regards*
> >
> > *Vern Hamberg*
> >
> > IBM Champion 2025 <cid:part1.ovqADumi.0c8x420S@centurylink.net> CAAC
> > (COMMON Americas Advisory Council) IBM Influencer 2023
> >
> > On 4/14/2025 8:52 AM, Brian Parkins wrote:
> >> I'm afraid I don't quite understand, Patrick. Assuming you're in
> >> Work with Members, PDM option 17). is the same as STRSDA OPTION(1)
> >> - i.e Work with Display Records.
> >>
> >> The "preview" function would be STRSDA OPTION(3) - i.e. Test
> >> Display Files. Is this what you mean by SPA? (RDi Screen Designer
> >> has a Preview function as well.)
> >>
> >> You say RDi is not an option for you. Is this because you don't
> >> have access to it?
> >>
> >> We've known for some time that this was going to happen:
> >>
>
[3]https://www.itjungle.com/2024/07/10/ibm-begins-the-purge-of-old-greens
> creen-utilities/
> >>
> >>
> >> Admittedly RDi Screen Designer does not provide support for Menu
> >> design, (STRSDA OPTION(2)) - which is unfortunate.
> >>
> >> Brian.
> >>
> >> On 14/04/2025 13:17, Patrik Schindler wrote:
> >>> Hello Brian,
> >>>
> >>> Am 14.04.2025 um 13:22 schrieb Brian
> >>> Parkins<goodprophet.bp@xxxxxxxxx
> >:
> >>>
> >>>> For many years the Screen Designer and Report Designer tools
> >>>> within RDi have been much better options for generating the DDS
> >>>> than SDA and RLU. (Just my opinion.)
> >>> Some people use SDA not for designing screens (which is
> >>> cumbersome, IMHO), but as "SPA" (Screen Preview Agent), through PDM
option 17.
> >>> I'm one of those. RDI is not an option for me.
> >>>
> >>> :wq! PoC
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