Re: What features should I demonstrate as being smart inWSDCi?

It's the little things, too - no one has mentioned undo/redo. Don't forget to mention that undo even puts the change dates back.

Dave Shaw
Mohawk Industries


----- Original Message ----- From: "Thorbjoern Ravn Andersen" <ravn@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 4:46 PM
Subject: [WDSCI-L] What features should I demonstrate as being smart inWSDCi?


Several years back WSDCi was evaluated in our organization by somebody
unfamiliar with Eclipse and rejected as he could not see any advantages
in using it with OPM Cobol (yes, not ILE) so we happily work with the
traditional green screens.

I may now have a chance for undoing that, and I was wondering if there
was more things that might be interesting to a CObol programmer than

* Many lines on the screen (as witnessed by the recent thread)

* Being able to do a lot of syntax checking while typing (and pressing
Ctrl-S)

* Having compiler errors in a window and inlined in the editor (I can
compile a simple Cobol program to do this)

* Having an outline of your source

* Navigate libraries, and files and members, and using RSE Extensions
seeing spool files etc.

I have considered demo'ing RDP instead but I believe the price tag would
be strongly prohibitive.

Any suggestions?