Re: From My Wish List

On 3/31/2014 6:02 PM, Edmund Reinhardt wrote:

<IBM i-aware Maven>

IBM already ships this capability in RTC Enterprise Edition

I'm about to go off the grid for a week, but I will re-download the RTC
trial and see what I missed the last time I looked at this. My prior
experience (3 years ago? Longer?) was that RTC was only barely aware of
IBM i. But perhaps I didn't find how that was implemented.

Once you have setup your build it does it for you. We have a tool that
will go through a library scanning your programs and service programs and
creating files to tell us how to build them again in the future so you
don't have to list all the modules and such for us. You only
have to do that for any brand new programs and service programs you want to
build or if you are adding new modules, bind dirs, etc. You still have to
do some setup to tell us what commands you want to run and such though.

Once it is setup. You can make changes, deliver them and the builds will
figure out exactly what to build based on your changes. You can run
personal builds to just build your changes and all the dependencies from
them. No need to remember. If you are curious though we have tools to
help you see the relationships. You can do an Impact Analysis search to
find all files that depend on the member you are searching on or find
everything it depends on. This type of search only does source
dependencies so if you depend on a built PF it won' find it. We then have
Source Code Data Queries that you can create to query any kind of
relationship that our scanners have mined from the code.

Remarkable. I didn't see any of this on the RTC web site. The sole
reference to IBM i in the RTC Data Sheet was to advertise that Arcad has
their Rational Power Pack.
http://public.dhe.ibm.com/common/ssi/ecm/en/rad14018usen/RAD14018USEN.PDF
The tutorial is Java
http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/rtcihelp/v1r0m1n1/index.jsp and the
search does not understand 'service program'.

This doesn't mean that RTC Enterprise can't do this; it means I'd never
have been able to work that out from the documentation that I found.
There's probably another web site...

There's no way on earth I'd be able to push a $4.5K budget item though,
so this is all theoretical for me. But hopefully someone else will get
a spark.
--buck