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Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
Brand - Servers and Systems Software
Product family - Programming Languages
Product - Developer for Power Systems
For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
Brand - Rational
Product family - Design & development
Product - Developer for Power Systems
This feature is now available in the IBM Rational Developer for i V9.0 product.
Product web page: http://www-03.ibm.com/software/products/us/en/dev-ibm-i
Fix List: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27038481
Download doc: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24034857
This request is approved and planned for delivery within the next year or next generally available release. Thank you for taking the time to suggest this enhancement to our product and for your votes.
This RFE is consistent with our strategy and product roadmap and IBM is continuing to evaluate.
Thanks for the clarification.
Hi Kurt,
I spent some time looking into this problem.
There are two kinds of updates to the outline view.
A Refresh update (which is also done at load time) will go out and retrieve database info from the host
A keystroke update can't afford to that since we don't want to slow down your typing. Of course we don't want to lose the information that you got from the host before either. So we look at our parse tree from before and if we can match the previous datastructure or file that has external information we copy it into the new tree.
The problem you were seeing was that our algorithm for determining if the datastructure has changed, was too conservative, causing it to consider a data structure as changed, even if it just moved further down in the source.
After some in depth analysis, I concluded that the right way to fix this was to keep track of the external file, record, field definitions independently of the RPG file, and data structures they become. So we will no longer be dependent on looking for matching data structures, or files which is always going to be a guess, but we can key on the actual external file names.
In this way, you can continue to use the external information even if you change an ALIAS. PREFIX, EXFMT, RENAME, IGNORE, INCLUDE, etc. keyword that will rename or subset this information when bringing it into the RPG name space.
You can even code new data structures and files that reference these external files and have the information available to you.
I believe this will be a much better algorithm and provide a much more usable experience.
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