Re: Multiple versions

My opinion is it should always check dates when the editor window opens
whether it is from opening a source (which it already does) or starting RDI
and RDI automatically opening previously opened windows. I also think it
should check them when in edit or browse mode. Imagine browsing code in RDI
to find a bug only to find out that you have an old version of the code in
the editor and it does not have the bug because it was introduced later.

I hate to phrase it this way but we need to be protected from ourselves so
we aren't spending time in obsolete versions of source because we don't know
it. At least tell me it is obsolete and let me figure out what I want to do
about it.

Until then, I will NEVER leave a editor window open in RDI because I can't
afford to waste time editing an old version like I did yesterday.

-----Original Message-----
From: WDSCI-L <wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Vern Hamberg
Sent: Monday, February 8, 2021 12:38 PM
To: wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Multiple versions

Hi Mike

I guess things are working "as coded". I just wonder if there is a reason
the check could not be done when opening RDi if there is an editor with the
source in it and set to edit, not browse. Or when one chooses to go from
browser to edit.

I just might throw in an RFE!

Thanks again for all your help here!


Vern

On 2/8/2021 10:59 AM, Mike Hockings wrote:

Hey Vern,
The check will not even be done until there is an attempt to save. On
save RDI will try and lock the source and either do the save or tell
you it has been changed since it was last seen.

The scenario for closing and opening RDI and doing a save is
considerably different than the unexpected loss of a current
connection prior to a save attempt.
All the best, Mike


Mike Hockings, M.Eng., P.Eng.
DevOps for Enterprise
IBM Developer for z Systems and Power Systems Software Technical
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From: Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: 2021/02/08 11:39 AM
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [WDSCI-L] Multiple versions
Sent by: "WDSCI-L" <wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>



Hi Mike

Is it a feasible idea to have an option to check last changed dates
before when we try to save? Or just do it?

If the source has been saved in SEU, for example, RDI can get the lock.
I assume it could check that date when it goes after the lock. RFE time?
is there one already for this?

I have had something else - connection drops and I try to save, then I
get the message the source is locked, and if i say to end the job, i
still get a couple popups that i think are extra. Like saying again
the source can't be saved. I've not reported this, and now that I
basically don't lose any connections - 25 for the keepalive has worked
great! - I don't get the message about locking now.


Regards

Vern

On 2/7/2021 9:49 PM, Mike Hockings wrote:

If you close RDI with an open source it will release the locks on

shutdown.

At startup the member will be loaded from the local cached version
and

try

to lock the source and check last changed dates if you try to save.

Unless your primary source is in an i Project I would recommend
closing remote source edit sessions before closing RDI.

Mike

Mike Hockings, M.Eng., P.Eng.
DevOps for Enterprise
IBM Developer for z Systems and Power Systems Software Technical
Support IBM Canada Ltd. Laboratory hockings@xxxxxxxxxx voice
1-905-413-3199 T/L 313-3199 ITN 23133199




From: smith5646midrange@xxxxxxxxx
To: "'Rational Developer for IBM i'"

<wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Date: 2021/02/06 07:26 PM
Subject: [EXTERNAL] [WDSCI-L] Multiple versions
Sent by: "WDSCI-L" <wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>



I edited a source member earlier in the week. When I got done, I
saved

my

source and exited RDI. I did not close my source member before
closing RDI.



Thursday and Friday I was on a different machine without RDI so I
used

SEU

to make a bunch of additional changes.



Today, I opened RDI. My source was open on the screen so I started

making

changes. After about 30 minutes or so, I attempted to save. It told
me there was a more recent version and asked me what I wanted to do.
I

saved

my source to a different name and then did a source compare. None of
the Thursday or Friday changes were in the source I worked on today.
I just spent an hour trying to merge the two source files together
and I'm still not confident that I got everything.



When I start RDI, shouldn't it check any already open members to see
if they have been changed by something else and warn me that I am not
viewing the most recent version? Do I have something configured
wrong somewhere?



I am using RDI version 9.5.

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