Re: CHGPF - Cannot drop fields

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Mark

I hear what you are saying - one option is to change the message 
description to have a default of I - and this is likely not a safe 
option - just as adding an entry in the system reply list is not safe.

Another option is to change your job to INQMSGRPY(*RQD) which, as you 
know, would mean it'd go to QSYSOPR and for the reply and your RDi is in 
*MSGW.

I strongly believe that there ARE ways to get the inquiry back to a 
client (all of which are ultimately batch jobs).

But you are running the CHGPF, not RDi, so the normal processing of 
commands and messages is where we are.

But an option somewhere in RDi for running commands, to handle this kind 
of thing, could be a nice thing - an RFE is in the making, man!!

Regards
Vern

On 5/28/2015 8:31 AM, Mark Murphy/STAR BASE Consulting Inc. wrote:
> 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 -----
> >
> > To:
> >
> > "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