Re: CHGPF - Cannot drop fields -- WDSCI-L

Vern,

Since I believe this is a two part enhancement: IBM i to provide a way to redirect those inquiry messages, and RDi to provide a way to reply to the redirected inquiry messages. I have entered both an RFE (for the RDi part), and a Common requirement for the IBM i part.

Mark Murphy
STAR BASE Consulting, Inc.
mmurphy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

-----Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: -----
To: Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio Client for System i & iSeries <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 05/28/2015 11:55AM
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] CHGPF - Cannot drop fields

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