Re: WDSC Notes

Craig, on behalf of the team here, we want to thank you for taking the time
to try the tools and give us
some detailed feedback. It is only through this iterative exercise we are
able to ultimately create the
product you want to have and will use. So, thanks!

You comments have been dispersed among the team here and they will
undoubtedly help influence
our future releases.

Off the top of my head, I did want to respond about the RSE performance,
and your attempt to use Search.
It is true that large lists will indeed take a while to load (known
problem... there is some threshold over which
the performance goes from awesome to not awesome, somewhere in the hundreds
we think). However,
while we work on this problem, we very strongly encourage the use of the
filters to produce a reasonably
sized list ... we think that is most productive for you anyway as it saved
serious scrolling. We have other feedback
from users who have smaller lists that the performance  is great, and from
others who initially complained
about the performance until they tried using filters to subset the list.

Can we ask you a couple questions:
  - for your slow list, how many items are in your list? To find out, after
expanding a parent, select the parent
    and look at the property sheet view (little pane) and look at the
property for "Number of children".
  - would you mind creating a filter? Eg, select "Your objects..." and add
a filter with your library name and some
    filtering criteria, such as by name (eg, ABC*) or object type.  We'd be
curious how the performance is
    for filtered lists. Or if your lists were for members, use "Your
members...".

If you go to Windows-Preferences and select the Remote Systems tree item on
the left, you will see an
option to remember your tree view. We'd be interested to see what you think
of this... when turned on, when
you re-start the IDE it will return your RSE tree view to the same state it
was in when you left.

Our goal is the make your more productive with the RSE than you are with
PDM (well, minus the IDE startup cost,).
Any feedback you or others have to help us in this goal is very much
appreciated. Eg, we have added a bit
of stuff already, beyond PDM:
  - persistent filters and ability to pool filters (you have to turn on
Show Filter Pools in preferences)
  - ability to expand files to see records, and fields
  - common properties shown in property sheet (or use the popup menu item
to show a table view ala pdm)
  - exhaustive properties info via the Properties popup menu

Phil Coulthard, iSeries Software Architect,  IBM Canada Ltd.
coulthar@ca.ibm.com. 905-413-4076, t/l 969-4076