On Mon, 23 Oct 2023 at 20:18, Reeve <rfritchman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'm prepared for the backlash, so here goes: what are the 5250 command-line
parameters for opening a specific member using RDi?
No backlash other than to opine that this is ugly.
There are no 5250-land command line RDi commands.
This differs to Code/400; there we had a listener that ran on the PC
which was able to talk to a server on the IBM side, which 5250 command
lines could talk to, whew.
But the dinosaurs are all oil now, and Eclipse doesn't do that natively.
I promised myself that I wouldn't weep for Eclipse Monkey, yet here I am.
I'd like to do some scripting (Bash, PowerShell?) to manage application
development but have not found any documentation to get me started.
Speaking very broadly, this is not a use case that the Eclipse
literati considered. I'm not sure how much to talk about Eclipse; I'm
hardly a Java guru, but the typical use is that one extends existing
classes. It's not mathematically impossible to recreate the Code/400
architecture of a server-side, well, server, a client/PC side
listener, and a bunch of extensions that exercise various Eclipse
functions. The hitch in the gitalong is that almost all of the
RPG-specific goodies are proprietary. Yes, one can black box reverse
engineer them by observation, but this is Subject To Change™ because
it's all unsupported and undocumented.
Of course, my still undomesticated imagination has just been running
wild with your marvelous suggestion, and no doubt you're after
something more civilised :-)
What are /you/ thinking of when you say 'scripting to manage
application development'?
--buck
Confidential to 'Edmund in Toronto': Please tell 'V' that I miss that
magnificent Code/400 to this very day. Eclipse extensions are meh
compared to Rexx + Code!
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