Re: Switching to WDSC/RDI from SEU

I just recently loaded version 7.0 when we upgraded to
V5R4 but haven't spent much time working with it. I was
not impressed with versions 5 or 6...in my opnion, they
were "beta" products.

When I lose my connection with the system (bad switch)
or my PC locks up, I have -never- lost any code with SEU,
but in the past I have lost my changes with WDSC. This
is what I meant by "failure-prone". It may have been a
poor phrase to use. Maybe version 7.0 is truly better
and I will play with it again when time permits...

I agree that you can see more lines when maximizing the
code window, but, as COBOL programmer I have seen no
features that I would consider as "to die for".

BTW, I have used it occasionally to outline a 20,000 line
RPG program...this was very handy :)

Terry

I haven't had WDSC 7.0.0.6 crash ever. I did crash it by monkeying
around in the XML files back when 7.0 first came out. It's been
very, very stable for me.

The number one thing I get out of it is more screen real
estate. I can
see more lines of the program I'm working on than I can with SEU.

The number 2 thing I get is the ability to edit multiple members
simultaneously. DDS (subfile changes) and the HLL program
that uses it.
Very closely related to that for me is the ability to edit the SAME
member twice. I can open up the Definitions (top of the code) in one
pane and the Calculations (middle of the code) in another pane and
change them both at the same time. (Ctrl-2)

Colour coding is nice but it's a distant third place along
with offline
verify. Other people have different things they like.

As Thorbjørn said, there isn't a 'to die for' use that WDSC gives that
SEU does not. It's incrementally better at many of the
things I do when
I edit, probably the most useful example of that is the ability to
copy/paste across the edges of the screen. It's a pain to copy/paste
say, an example from email into an SEU session.
--buck
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