Re: Source in IFS

["Mark S. Waterbury" <mark.s.waterbury@xxxxxxx>]

Hi, Arco:

A far bigger issue is, if you place your source in the IFS and use any 
of the CRTxxx commands that support it, you lose one of the most 
important features of OS/400 or i5/OS, that is, the automatic "stamping" 
of the created object with the source file name, library name, member 
name, and date-time stamp of the source member. Those fields in the 
created object (OIR) will all be blank if your source was in the IFS. :-o

Mark S. Waterbury

> On 5/10/2010 4:43 PM, Arco Simonse wrote:
> Most source management systems will not support IFS sources.
>
> The Rational tools do follow the RPG enhancements afaik, so I don't think
> (and never noticed) that the will be out of sync with RPG. And for lots of
> commands RDI just executes remote i/OS functions.
>
> But the conclusion can be that more enhancements would need to be done by
> IBM to make IFS sources useful. I just also noted the CRTDSPF command, which
> also does not  have a SRCSTMF parameter.
>
>
> 2010/5/10 Mark S. Waterbury<mark.s.waterbury@xxxxxxx>
>
>    
> > Hi, David:
> >
> > Are you saying that WDSCi, RDi and RDp, do not really support or work
> > with source in the IFS? :-o
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Mark S. Waterbury
> >
> >   >  On 5/10/2010 3:25 PM, David Gibbs wrote:
> >      
> > > One thing to consider regarding RPG in ifs files ... most current
> > >        
> > development tools cannot deal with the IFS source locations.
> >      
> > > Even DSPPGM doesn't show the source location (at least on V5R4).
> > >
> > > david
> > >
> > >
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