Re: RDi 9.0.1 see size of Data-Structures..

[Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bummer - should have complained about it before.  Does it not even show it if the length is explicitly defined?

On 2014-02-20, at 8:55 AM, Dave Shaw <daveshaw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Jon,
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> I still have WDSCi 7.0 loaded, so I started it up to check.  Data structure lengths don't show in its outline.  I also tried the static outline in 9.0.1, and they don't show in that, either.  Me, I always lose the argument that there was a bug in the spec, especially with IBM. <grin>
>
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> Dave Shaw
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> From: Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio Client for System i & iSeries <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 
> Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2014 6:30 PM
> Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] RDi 9.0.1 see size of Data-Structures..
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> Hmmmm - I'm surprised you consider it new function. The old RPG xref data that outline view used to be based on contained that information as by definition a DS is an alpha field whose length is the sum of its parts (or the declared length if one was given.
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> Can't go back to the old version but I thought that used to be included in outline.
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> On 2014-02-19, at 5:37 PM, Edmund Reinhardt <edmund.reinhardt@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > We do not show incorrect information for data structures in hovers.
> > But the full potential of hovers is not exploited.
> > It might be useful to compute the lengths of data structures and show that.
> > This would be a new piece of function.
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