Re: Technology refresh enhancements for free-form statements

Vernon,

No, we're using a home-grown system to handle promotion. Out utility was
originally from a magazine (S/38 News or MC Computing--don't recall it was
a long time ago). It used data areas to store the library lists. They
had to have 8-bytes or less for their name as the first two characters
were replaced by LL--as in, Library List. They were also limited as to
the number of libraries. I've since changed it to use a User Space with
the attribute set as 'LIBLD'. I also use the library list API (QLICHGLL).
Someday, I would love to set it up as open source or do a COMMON
presentation on it. Haven't been able to get approval to go to COMMON for
the last few years.

Anyway, I would much prefer to get something like Implementer, Turnover,
or ARCAD (Skipper, I think). Our Systems Admin and I have too much other
work to do to maintain our own CM package.

Another selling point for something like Turnover--we could get down to a
single connection for the developers.

Thanks,
Michael

wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 10/10/2013 02:05:05 PM:

----- Message from Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> on Thu,
10 Oct 2013 12:37:30 -0500 -----

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Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio Client
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Re: [WDSCI-L] Technology refresh enhancements for free-form statements

Michael

Are y'all using Turnover? Or another SCM?

I know that Turnover lets you define library list "objects" for each
application - then it applies them whenever you do a compile from

Turnover.

So usually it isn't necessary to think about different RSE connections -

one does just fine - at least, it did at my previous employer.

But if you do everything without an SCM, then different connections are
a great way to go.

Cheers
Vern

On 10/10/2013 12:32 PM, MichaelQuigley@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Would it make it easier for him if you had him set up connections for

the

various library lists needed? That's what I do. Of course, we also

have

a command (well, a set of commands) to manage pre-defined sets of

library

lists. For me, each connection specifies the library list using our
home-grown utility. You could call a CL or specify the library list
directly.

There can be one gotcha with this. If source gets opened under the

wrong

connection, the compile fails due to file(s) not found. It also

messes up

the RPG outline--again, because of the files not in the library list.
There's no way to tell from the editor as to what connection was used

to

open the source. No different, I suppose, than forgetting to run the

CL

command and change the library list using a single connection.

wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 10/10/2013 12:28:19 PM: