As far as I can see, the source member lock does one thing only. It prevents two SEU developers having the source open for edit at the same time. That is, only one developer can edit the source using SEU at a time. If your session closes/crashes or just SEU closes unexpectedly then your source member lock will be re-established the next time you open it in SEU.
If the source is open in RDP and it was loaded from an IBM i connection for editing then that source member should always be locked whenever my RDP session is active. This is what happens with SEU, so why not RDP?
Currently, after restarting RDP (after it was closed/crashed with a source member open) it appears to have opened the source member again, but no locks or source changed checks are done until you try to save your changes again. So I think RDP should re-establish the member lock as soon as the source member becomes changed (or "dirty" as it used to be called) simulating reopening the source in SEU. Maybe an option to work offline should be available somewhere, so people who do edit without a permanent connection to their IBM i can continue to work as they do (e.g. using i Projects), but the option should not be on by default for source members loaded via an IBM i connection.
Kurt, did you raise the RFE? I could do it myself, I think, but it would take extra time for me to do it while I worked out *how* to do it.
-Paul.
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From: wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kurt Anderson
Sent: 29 July 2011 22:24
To: Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio Client for System i & iSeries
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Refresh the member lock
Last time I checked (15 seconds ago), that's exactly what RDp doesn't do. ;)
Seriously. I have a source open for edit in RDp. I closed it. I re-opened RDp, which also opened the source. I went into SEU and go into that source in edit mode. RDp does not have the lock as might be suggested when having the source open in RDp in edit mode.
For the record, I'm in agreement with Justin. Seems to me that people are trying to make this more convoluted an issue than it is.
-Kurt
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From: wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David Gibbs
Sent: Friday, July 29, 2011 3:40 PM
To: Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio Client for System i & iSeries
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Refresh the member lock
On 7/29/2011 3:19 PM, Justin Taylor wrote:
IMO, it seems to me to be a simple problem, with an equally simple
solution. RDp is re-opening source members without locking them.
RDp needs to be fixed to relock those source members or open the
member in browse if it cannot get a lock (notifying the user of
course).
Last time I checked (which is about 30 seconds ago), that's exactly what RDp does.
If a member is locked by another editor, it displays a dialog indicating that the member is locked and tells you what job is holding the lock.
You're offered the ability to open the member in browse mode or end the other job and open the member in edit mode (assuming, of course, you have the authority to end the other job).
david
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