RE: Source line change dates - IFS vs source physical files

Hi Rob,

The compiler team offcourse knows (that's the benefit of proprietary stuff
:-) that a source physical file has the date stored, and does display it.
What I was trying to tell is that a SRC-PF is actually a database file and
has a structure while this is not the case for an IFS file.

Since sources stored in stream files can originate from everywhere, and
shared with anybody it isn't that easy to create a standard (IBM doesn't
control Notepad as stated earlier) how a source should look like, especially
if the underlying storage system doesn't have the possibility to create a
structure.

BTW, IFS has no structure at all... not even for the maximum characters per
line... a line is even something what you consider as separated by CRLF, but
Unix people think even different about that... so basically the concept of a
'line' doesn't even exist in an IFS file.

Kind regards,
Paul

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Actually the compiler does put it on the listing.  Therefore the editor 
and the compiler people may have to share a coffee break.

Isn't there already a structure in the IFS?  After all, you are still 
limited to so many characters per line.

Rob Berendt
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safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." 
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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.
>



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