Re: CHGPF - Cannot drop fields

Really, we are going to force ourselves back to 5250 green screen just because that is the way it has always been? Seems to me since IBM owns both RDi and IBM i there could be some communication between the two teams to allow CHGPF, and ALTER TABLE to drop or shorten columns in the GUI. Is RDi the future for IBM i development or not. If it is, you have to be able to do this.

Mark Murphy
STAR BASE Consulting, Inc.
mmurphy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


-----MichaelQuigley@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: -----
To: wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
From: MichaelQuigley@xxxxxxxxxx
Date: 05/27/2015 09:02PM
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] CHGPF - Cannot drop fields

Sorry Mark,

That's not an RDi issue. That's the been the behavior of CHGPF from a
source file since its inception. If you run it interactively in a 5250
session, it prompts with an inquiry message where you can ignore the
error. Running the command any other way, always results in a 'C' to
cancel the command.

Michael

----- Message from "Mark Murphy/STAR BASE Consulting Inc."
<mmurphy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> on Wed, 27 May 2015 11:55:10 -0400 -----

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"Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio Client
for System i & iSeries" <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Subject:

[WDSCI-L] CHGPF - Cannot drop fields

I am having issues dropping fields with CHGPF and RDi 9.1.1. It
tells me it worked, but the file does not change and the log
includes a CPD32CE indicating that a C was used to reply to
CPA32B2. If I use CHGPF directly from a 5250 interactive command
line, I get the option to ignore the error. Is there a way to do
that in RDi? Not sure how you would redirect the inquiry message to
the RDi job as it is a batch, and takes the default reply which is
C. Just wondering if anyone had solved this without changing the
system reply list.

Mark Murphy
STAR BASE Consulting, Inc.
mmurphy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx