Re: Clarification - confused consultant

[Simon Coulter <shc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 19/06/2008, at 11:22 PM, Joe Pluta wrote:

> Andy Hautamaki wrote:
> > Barbara;
> >
> > Would that mean if say in V6R2 a new BIF was added you could not  
> > use it in
> > SEU?
> That's exactly what it means, Andy.

That's simply not true! SEU will behave exactly as it has in the past  
when a new feature/keyword has been added to a language (possibly via  
PTF) but SEU was not updated at the same time. That is; you can still  
use SEU, you can use the new BIF or Op-code, SEU may flag a syntax  
error but you can save the source in spite of the errors and compile.  
As long as the COMPILER finds nothing wrong with the source a program  
will be created.

I do this even now because SEU doesn't always like my constructs. For  
example:

 /if defined(FBN_USE_PREFIX )
D fbnConvert      PR             8F
 /else
D convert         PR             8F
 /endif
D                                     EXTPROC('fbnConvert')

The compiler is quite happy with that construct but SEU complains  
about the final line:

	Keyword is not allowed for a parameter definition; keyword is ignored.

SEU is interpreting the line as part of a parameter definition when  
it is really part of the PR.

> > I'm curious cause this might  push the remaining developers in our  
> > shop to
> > use WDSC/RDI........
> And that's the ultimate goal.  IBM wants to stop supporting two  
> sets of
> tooling for the i.  They'd like everyone to get onto the Rational  
> tools.
>
> I'm still a little concerned as anybody that what happens when your
> network goes down and you need to do some work on your box.  At this
> point, you can at least still use SEU.  Several releases down the road
> that might not be the case, at least not with full syntax checking.
> Eventually SEU will become more like EDTF in that it won't catch  
> syntax
> errors (or probably more likely it will see errors that don't exist).

So the network is down killing your client IDE to host connectivity.  
Why would this not also kill your emulator to host connectivity? Or  
are you thinking of some other form of connexion that doesn't involve  
the network (such as private HMC link)?


Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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