Re: Copying source with RDi

Hi, Vernon. Unfortunately I'm unable to submit an RFE.

Yes, I've tried dragging/dropping, right button Copy/Paste, using RSE with/without the Table View. All work the same. It would be nice to have a checkbox in the prompt window, "prompt for all selected" which could be unticked to avoid subsequent prompts. (Just a "nice to have" to match the functionality of PDM.)

Copying source between different systems - or to/from the client - does _not_ invoke prompting. Perhaps one solution is to create a User Action for CPYSRCF?

Thx for responding - I wondered if I'd missed something.
Brian.

-----Original Message----- From: Vernon Hamberg
Sent: Sunday, August 23, 2015 9:54 AM
To: Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio Client forSystem i & iSeries
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Copying source with RDi

Interesting situation, Brian - reminds me how things in Ops Nav "worked"
when changing spooled files.

I think this is a nice candidate for submitting an RFE - the design
point seems to be something like each source member might go to
different source files. This IS possible in RSE, since you CAN select
members from different source files, then take the Copy option.

But if they are all from the same source file, maybe there should be no
need to prompt for each - or prompt only for the destination.

Have you tried dragging and dropping - I think that can be done, even
between systems. If that is true, are you still prompted? Just curious
early in the morning!

Cheers
Vern

On 8/23/2015 3:33 AM, Brian Parkins wrote:

Folks, a simple “how to” problem I cannot resolve. Suppose I have several source members I wish to copy from one source file to another. In PDM I would use Option 3). In RSE I can use Copy/Paste. However, in RSE I am also prompted with the CPYSRCF command for each member to copy.

Is there a way to avoid the prompting in RDi/RSE? Is there a Preference somewhere? It can get mighty annoying when copying several members. (OTOH, I guess PDM Option 3. is more efficient because the members are not being downloaded/uploaded to/from the client.)

Thx in advance.
Brian Parkins