Re: File declaration disables context assist

Be interesting to know if this was unique to (say) an IndDS situation Joe - or if it is simply any file. I guess you might be able to regain display field access by using an externally derived DS based on the display file formats.

Just out of interest, does it also apply if the file is declared as a template?

I can't really do any testing because my context assist has been flakey ever since V9.5!


Jon Paris

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On May 5, 2018, at 1:27 PM, Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

One of the most painful problems to me is when context assist stops working. I find it happens more often than not in SQLRPGLE members and I've tried to find the culprit. I just narrowed it down pretty significantly, although I still have some work to get a minimal case.

If, in my SQLRPGLE program, I have a workstation file declared as so:

dcl-f CEPANZD workstn indds(dsInds);

Then CTRL-space stops working. Since this is my standard workstation definition, this means that I effectively cannot use SQLRPGLE without giving up significant functionality. Now that I know the line of code that breaks it, I'm going to try to create a minimal case, but this is the root cause. I just wondered if anyone else had noticed the loss of context assist.

I can make context assist come back by commenting out just that declaration. Uncomment it, and context assist stops working again. So I have a rather half-baked work around, although even then I can't prompt for my display file fields.

This is really bad for me. It has actually caused me not to use SQLRPGLE in complex programs because I rely on the context assist.



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