Re: iSeries Projects - comparing local and remote source

Adam Glauser wrote:

A few days ago, Aaron Bartell posted a question regarding comparing source in an iSeries project to the version on the System i.

I just stumbled upon the fact that the RSE's built in compare function does this. If you have the local version of the source open, you can click the triangle icon in the workbench toolbar, or choose "Edit -> Compare to file ...". You can then choose the remote source with which to compare your local source.

This method of comparison has its own idiosyncrasies, just like the RSE Extensions version and Eclipse's "Compare with -> Each other". One of the big benefits of the RSE version is that you can use it to merge source without losing the sequence numbers / dates, but with an "undo" (unlike PDM option 55).

Very nice tip Adam. Thanks! One of the idiosyncrasies is that I can't figure out how to get rid of the marking (added/deleted lines) now that I've done my compare and I'm satisfied that I don't need to make any changes. I tried Refresh, but that didn't work. Nor did 'Remove messages.' Ultimately, I closed and re-opened the member from the iSeries Project Navigator.

Yes, I checked the help :-) Edit, hover over Compare to file, press F1. I notice there's no simple way to send feedback to the documentation team to tell them that it'd be a wonderful addition to describe how to remove the 'add/delete' styles that Compare applied. I suspect that Edit -> Compare to file is a WDSC thing and not an Eclipse thing because I can't find it in the online documentation, and the option is not available for Java source.
--buck