Hi Greg,
By any chance, had you recently changed the host name? Not the connection name, the host. IE to add the domain? MYIBMHOST to MYIBMHOST.mycompany.com
I was able to simulate your error today by having a member open. Then renamed the host by changing the domain only and reconnected. When I tried to switch the changed member to browse mode, RDi opened a new member with the old data.
When I looked at the "properties" of the changed one and see it's using the old host name in the RemoteSystemsTempFiles folder, without the domain name.
I kept the browse one open, changed the host name back without the domain, and reconnected. My changes made it back to the host. But now the browse with the domain name was out of synch. I simply closed that one.
I'll add a Jira for this. It appears if you only change the domain name on the host, it doesn't get updated in the cache/RemoteSystemsTempFiles directory.
If you run into this issue in the future, switch to browse mode. If it opens another member with the old content, open the properties view, and look at the temp system names on both. Switch it back to the name used in the one with changes, then save it again.
For now, if users are renaming hosts to add the domain, it's best to close all open members.
TIP: You can open the "Remote Edit History" pane to see the last 10 files you had open. You can also go into properties and make it larger than 10 if you wish. I look at adding a video for this panel.
Steve Ferrell
Fortra
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Mike,
Thanks for chiming in.
Yes, the cached (local) source was changed/saved. However the source on the host was not getting updated.
One other weird thing that happened (I forgot about).
I received source from a software vendor as a "text" file via email. So I right-clicked on my source file, then clicked New to create a new member. I copied/pasted the text (viewing in Notepad++) into the new source member and saved it.
When I tried to view the source member on the IBM i using SEU, it said the source member had no records.
This was the prior day.
I've used RDi for quite some time - I have only ever experienced this once before (that I can recall).
Thx,
Greg
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From: WDSCI-L <wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Mike Hockings
Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2025 10:42 AM
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Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Local Source Member out of Sync
When you save the source the first step is only to save it locally. Under the covers the saved source will be transferred to the IBM i in a two-step dance. Transferring to the IBM I takes time so if you clicked Save then closed RDI right away and then closed Windows it could very well be that the save did not complete.
I suspect that you could open the source (does it show the latest changed stuff?), it should open from the local cache, the make a change, like change a space to a space then save to fire the save process up again or do save-as or whatever.
Clearing the cache is a solution for some issues but in this case it would zap the source you want into oblivion...
All the best, Mike
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IBM Canada Ltd. Laboratory
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From: WDSCI-L <wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> on behalf of Greg Wilburn <gwilburn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wednesday, August 20, 2025 at 8:30 AM
To: Rational Developer for IBM i <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [WDSCI-L] Local Source Member out of Sync
I had saved a copy of the source text in Notepad++
So I was able to create a new source member and just paste it into the editor and save.
I'm not using iProjects. The odd part is that the "disconnect" was me closing the application after saving the source. That is the source change date/time on the IBM i. It's like when I opened it all back up around 1:30 pm it didn't sync.
Very weird.
Thanks for reply.
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From: WDSCI-L <wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Brian Parkins
Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2025 5:52 PM
To: wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Local Source Member out of Sync
This does happen from time to time in RDi, possibly as a result of a temporary (network) disconnect between the desktop and the host. (You're not using the iProjects facility in RDi, are you? I'm assuming not.)
The simplest fix is to drill down in your Workspace using RSE and find the local copy of your source member:
LOCAL FILES > DRIVES > ....... > REMOTESYSTEMSTEMPFILES > [server] > QSYS.LIB > [library] > [source file] > [member]
Then manually Copy/Paste to the IBM i source file. (You might wish to paste to a different source file rather than overwrite the host copy - until you've double-checked.)
HTH,
Brian.
On 19/08/2025 22:21, Greg Wilburn wrote:
I have no idea how I've done this, but the local copy of the source member (where I'm making changes) is not the same as the source member on the IBM i.
The local copy has my current changes, but the remote copy hasn't been updated since before noon today (when I closed and signed off the PC for lunch).
How do I get these to sync?
TIA,
Greg
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