Re: Comparing source members

Vern, you wrote:

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.

Subversion doesn't use the RSE extensions. When you use Subversion (and I assume that the same applies to CVS) you keep the sequence number and change dates. The merge is really easy to use.

The only (and not minor) problem with Subversion is that you need to re-wire the way your work (and your brain) flows... unfortunately there are not many resources out there for WDSC, CVS/Subversion, and the iSeries. There are many tutorials for Unix and PC developers, but not for iSeries developers. In addition to that, the tutorials I have seen focus on the details of the operations with Subversion, but don't put out the great picture of the full software development life cycle with the iSeries (I guess they let you to figure out that by yourself).

If there is interest, I could start a tutorial for WDSC, Subversion and the iSeries. I'm still a learner, but maybe we could figure out something good.

Luis

-----Original Message-----
From: wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Vernon Hamberg
Sent: Friday, December 21, 2007 11:35 AM
To: Websphere Development Studio Client for iSeries
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Comparing source members

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