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Re: All Source Line Dates Changed Except Comments

On 11/27/2017 3:48 PM, Ken Killian wrote:

If they are using Ctrl+Shift+F to format the code, it will change all dates...

A professional tool like Help-system: RPG Toolbox does NOT change the source dates.

In years past, I wrote a tool that would update RPG source code to
rename file and record format names in bulk, across all members in a
source file. I thought it was more efficient than making someone go in
one by one and doing the replacements by hand. I made one mistake: I
didn't update the SRCDAT column.

When I did I/O against each source member, IBM i updated the Last
Changed date. So everyone knew that a bunch of source members had been
changed (PDM F14/F15). The problem came when programmers tried in vain
to find /what/ lines had been changed, and couldn't see any, leading
them to the conclusion that hundreds of programs had newly deleted lines.

I might have been called a few names that week, but I don't recall
'professional' being among them :-)


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