Re: [WDSCI-L] Source line change dates - IFS vs source physical files

["Paul Nicolay" <Paul.Nicolay@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Rob,

With source physical files, the date is stored in a seperate field (which is 
maintained by the editor) which the compiler never reads (he's only interested 
in the actual coding).

With IFS files, this is completely different as they don't have a structure, so 
neither any place to store the date.  This means one would need a convention 
(for example the first 8 bytes of each line), but this would mean that all 
editors and compilers should be able to handle this (and when you would edit 
such an IFS source file with Notepad it definitely doesn't).

Just consider yourself spoiled with storing sources in source physical files 
(ie. database file).

Kind regards,
Paul

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 Websphere Development Studio Client for iSeries <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>I wondered if the line change dates were a property of source physical 
>files, or the property of the editors involved.  Your remark seems to 
>indicate that it is a property of the editor itself.
>
>That being so, then there is no reason that IBM couldn't fix the fact that 
>storing source in the IFS doesn't currently support line change dates.
>