Re: Comparing source members

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Folks

I find I need a merge many times. The best one, and what I use almost 
all the time, is option 55 in PDM. Nothing else gives me the 
flexibility of that tool, and I won't apologize for mentioning it on 
this list. The RSE Extensions are next best for me, but they strip 
the source sequence and source change date. Sequence is not such a 
big deal, but change date can be. That will be a loss, in my view, 
when going to editing in IFS and using subversion, etc. Good 
directions, but we won't know when individual lines changed the same 
way we do now - but I may have missed something obvious, like how 
changes are kept.

Now maybe I should fire up Arcad's plugin emulator and run the PDM 
option or directly run the MRGSRC - could even create a member option 
for it - heh!

The thing I get in 55 option is the split SEU screen that shows me 
the changes - and lets me apply the ones I want to. Again, RSE 
Extensions seems to do that, but I don't use it for that, for reasons 
already stated and others I can't think of now. Every other merge 
tool does the merge, then leaves you with a report saying what was 
done - you then have to fix things that should not have been done. 
Guess it depends which end of things you want to spend your time on. 
Different strokes ---

Later
Vern

At 09:29 AM 12/21/2007, you wrote:

> Joe,
>
> I still get frustrated with the compare options in WDSCi and go back to
> CODE.  It just has better functionality for my purposes, IMHO.  I'm not fond
> of CMPPFM, either.
>
> Dave Shaw
> Mohawk Industries
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "'Websphere Development Studio Client for iSeries'"
> <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, December 21, 2007 9:58 AM
> Subject: [WDSCI-L] Comparing source members
>
>
> > Back in a previous life, I thought I remembered that the Compare with each
> > other option of WDSC worked relatively well.  That seems to have been a
> > dream, because today I can't get around the issue of source dates and
> > sequence numbers not matching.
> >
> > That is, if the source dates don't match (I clear them, or I do some sort
> > of
> > mass touch of lines or any other little thing that changes the source
> > dates)
> > then the members no longer match, and it's back to CMPPFM.
> >
> > Was it just a dream when I could compare members?
> >
> > Joe
>
> --
> This is the Websphere Development Studio Client for 
> iSeries  (WDSCI-L) mailing list
> To post a message email: WDSCI-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options,
> visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/wdsci-l
> or email: WDSCI-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives
> at http://archive.midrange.com/wdsci-l.