Good one Buck! You almost made me spit out my coffee laughing. (...don't recall 'professional'...)
PS. Makes me wonder how the Microsoft Developers deal without Punch-Card Date column. They actually use source comparison tools. What a "strange concept". <smirk>
Sadly, No comparison tool can compare Punch-card format and Free-format. Every line turns up as CHANGED because of the Punch-Card column 6 for the spec type.
For a "First Pass" the Code formatter of RDI is not bad. Just too bad it changes all the dates. Which is why I don't use it.
-Ken Killian-
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From: WDSCI-L [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Buck Calabro
Sent: Monday, November 27, 2017 4:09 PM
To: wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] 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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