Re: No Split view on source members of type SQL?

Hi,

When Editing Java Code, I can get another view by Menu action:

Window>New Editor

I tried that my SQL Code, and that does not work, nor does the Ctrl+2, the normal shortcut key to open a "Split Screen"...

But, I have discovered that if I hold down the CTRL Key, I and drag the tab to create a SPLIT VIEW on the SQL/DDL in LPEX...

I have SQL/DDL associated with the LPEX in File Associations...

I have the "Remote Systems LPEX Editor(default)" for SQL & DDL. NOT the "Basic Lpex Editor"...

Window>preferences>General>Editors>File Associations

So, to me if I am using the same editor for both ILE RPG & SQL/DDL, then it should work the same. At least, that would be my assumption...

I guess I am assuming too much... <Frown>

-Ken Killian-

-----Original Message-----
From: wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Vernon Hamberg
Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2014 7:43 PM
To: Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio Client for System i & iSeries
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] No Split view on source members of type SQL?

Hi Buck

I've never heard of the Eclipse editor being LPEX - it might be, but I don't know. I DO see in Preferences a separate section for "LPEX Editor"
- outside of "Remote Systems" - and there's also the "Remote Systems LPEX Editor" inside of "Remote Systems".

And then I see in File Associations, "Basic LPEX Editor" and "Simple LPEX Editor" and "Remote Systems LPEX Editor".

Oy! What a mess - it seems to me, at least at the end of this day when I've been at this job now for a year! (I did slip that in!)

The only explicit reference to "Basic LPEX Editor" in the help is about some code review component used with COBOL and AIX or the like.

And nothing with the exact string "Simple LPEX Editor", as I recall from my search I just did.

So what are these beasts? I don't feel like going into File Associations and mucking about, at least not today.

Cheers
Vern

On 2/18/2014 5:03 PM, Buck Calabro wrote:

On 2/18/2014 4:34 PM, Vernon Hamberg wrote:

Matt, you've lost me - what is the difference between Remote Systems
LPEX editor and basic LPEX? I thought there was only one.

Are you speaking of the CODE/400 editor as the basic LPEX?

So Eclipse has a generic editor. I guess it's called Lpex. One can
extend Lpex via plugins. The Java people have plugins that do Java
parsing, refactoring, etc. Rational have made plugins for RPG that
handle our needs.

When you open up a file that isn't registered to the Rational-extended
Lpex, the base editor comes into play. ish. On an earlier version of
RDi, I'm quite sure I remember the icon on the editor tab being
something other than a pencil. For Java, the icon becomes a 'J'. For
.txt, the icon becomes a sheet of paper with lines. None of these
support the Rational extension of Ctrl-2 to split the screen. If you
open a .txt file from your IFS, right click the source and look at the
options for 'Open With'. You can see these options on the RSE list as
well, but only for file types Rational doesn't recognise.
--buck

Regards
Vern

On 2/18/2014 10:32 AM, Tyler, Matt wrote:

I can by using the Remote systems LPEX editor not the basic LPEX.


Thanks, Matt


-----Original Message-----
On Behalf Of Charles Wilt
Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2014 9:30 AM
To: Websphere Development Studio Client for iSeries
Subject: [WDSCI-L] No Split view on source members of type SQL?

I don't seem to have the option to split the view when editing
source members of type SQL?

This is on 9.0.0.1.

Can anyone confirm they have the same problem?

Is this s bug or a limitation?

Charles

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