Re: V5R2: Source now allowed in the IFS

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If IBM adds the capability to compile from source, then it allows the tool
manufactures to catch up or surpass IBM.  Much like having the compiler
team work on stuff that can't easily be done with your custom
subprocedure, than spending time working on a bif that can be easily
replicated with a custom subprocedure.

Also, PDM is nice, but it probably isn't the 'tool of the future'.  Your
options include:
1)  Stay the course.
2)  Using iSeries navigator
3)  Using WDSC (or whatever, you know what I mean)
4)  Using third party tools
5)  Get a package that marries the ifs capability of WRKLNK with the user
defined options of PDM.

Rob Berendt
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safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Benjamin Franklin




Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@attbi.com>
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10/15/2002 10:17 AM
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Did she tell you what the tools are to use this? Where are the automatic
compile command selection based on extension (oops, mean source member
type)?

This is a serious question. I'm not trying to bait anyone. Seems to me we
keep losing functionality. Visual Age C++ for AS/400 was removed, with no
replacement, really - no pre-compile on the client, which is one of the
touted items in CODE but not available for C/C++.

Sure, I guess we're "supposed" to go to CODE or WDSC for our editing.

So, in short, what are IBM's recommendations to REALLY use this _great_
new
idea as well as the "old" way? We need the tools, not the features. IBM
learned this vis-a-vis new WebSphere App Server - lets see it in the
development client, too, please.

Small rant is ended. Go in pieces.

Thanks

Vern

At 10:40 AM 10/15/02 -0400, you wrote:

>I was at the Inge Weiss session yesterday where she indicated that source
>can be put into the IFS, but the IFS is SO inefficient a user of space,
why
>would I ever want to ever want to waste that disk space?  (PS:  This
>observation was taken in the V4R4 time frame/)
>
>Al

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