There is an IBM function called an RFE (request for enhancement), where you
can request a new feature. I don't know the process well enough to step
through it, but that would probably be your best bet. Even though there
are a few IBM people on here, they aren't empowered to make changes like
this on their own.
From: "Mark Murphy/STAR BASE Consulting Inc."
<mmurphy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio
Client for System i & iSeries <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 01/08/2014 04:02 PM
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] SQL Strangeness
Sent by: wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Yes, you are missing something. Likely because I wasn't clear enough about
why I want this. I have multiple environments that I am developing for,
usually concurrently. Each environment needs a different library list. When
I open a source, I can indeed select the connection I want to use, and if I
pay enough attention to do that up front, then I am ok, but I don't have to
do it every time, and usually it doesn't matter which environment I am
compiling for because all of my environments have a single core set of
libraries. But each has its own customization library. Usually the files in
the customization libraries are different, and if I try to compile in the
wrong one it is more evident, but now and then I have the same file in two
environments which are slightly different, and it matters which one I am
compiling in. If I didn't make sure I got the connection correct up front,
I am doomed because by the time I get to compiling I either explicitly set
the connection and it is
correct, or I didn't look at the connection and I don't know what it is
set to. And now I can't find out either.
I just opened a source using Ctrl-Shift-A. I know the connection is correct
because I checked it on opening. But there is now nothing in the IDE that
tells me what connection it is using. Well, that is not totally correct, I
did find that using Source->Verify will tell me the connection if there are
messages. It would ne nice if the Properties view would tell me, but I
can't reliably get the properties view to display anything about the active
source. What would be even better would be the ability for me to apply a
connection to a given source, and have the IDE either tell me that I am
compiling using a different connection, and give me a chance to change it,
or something like that. It could be behind the scenes most of the time.
But confusion is what you are getting right now. Confusion that will keep
SEU users in their SEU seats.
Here is how this feature could work. Create a new source, or open it for
the first time, the connection is stored in some metadata attached to the
source library/file/member. Next time I open this source with the wrong
connection, it gives me the chance to switch connection (if the saved
connection still exists), or use the current connection. If I stay with
the current connection (or the saved connection does not exist), then that
new connection is stored in the metadata. In any case the connection for
the source remains accurate behind the scenes, and the IDE tells me is
something doesn't look quite right.
Otherwise I would like a simple way, connected to compile, to determine
which connection I will be compiling with. I could just be some text at the
top of the compile menu that tells me the connection for the source I am
about to compile. The compile menu options are greyed out if a source is
not selected, so I know that menu is already attached in some way to the
source view. It doesn't have to be a selectable menu option, just an
information line that says something like Connection:________.
Neither of these enhancements would add to any confusion that an SEU user
might have. In fact, I believe either of these would alleviate some of the
confusion, and make RDi easier to adopt.
Mark Murphy
STAR BASE Consulting, Inc.
mmurphy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
-----"Voris, John" <john.voris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: -----
To: "wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx" <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: "Voris, John" <john.voris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 01/08/2014 11:52AM
Subject: [WDSCI-L] SQL Strangeness
For the WDSC group,
I just spent several hours trying to determine why a compile would not
work from RDi. Turns out it was trying to compile under the wrong
connection. It just uses the connection used to open the source. In my case
the connection I opened the source under allowed editing the source, but
not compiling correctly. It would be useful if the compile menu or prompt
dialog displayed or allowed selecting a connection for the compile.
. . . I don't always remember to set that field as it is usually what I
want, but I probably opened it last week, and didn't remember. I am asking
for a new feature here.
Sounds like you are requesting flexibility that is just not necessary.
For those new programmers coming from SEU who find RDi/RDp/WDSC just too
complex, another popup screen to confirm something that should have been
set before editing your source seems like an excessive double-check to me.
(Even I who have a huge amount of members open in RSE Remote System
Explorer, can see the filter and the connection I am using if I scroll up
far enough.)
Am I missing something ?
- John Voris
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