[WDSCI-L] What good is the file cache in WDSC V5.0?

[Jim Essinger <esinger@xxxxxxxx>]

Greetings;

I have need to develop disconnected from my iSeries, and so I right click 
on a list of physical files and tell it to "Cache File 
Descriptions".  After a while of downloading _something_ from the iSeries, 
I disconnect from the iSeries, put my laptop in sleep mode and go 
away.  Later I'm programming (in Code because I can't get the Lpex editor 
to do everything I need with my COBOL source / or I don't have time to 
learn the new editor - I REALLY need to get to V5.1!!) and I want to view 
the fields in one of the cached files.  It fails to show me the list in a 
table because it did not connect with the iSeries.

Questions:

Why did it not use the cached version I had it download?
Can I make it show the cached information instead of trying to go to the 
iSeries?
Can I have it connect if there is a network connection, and if not use the 
cache?
Can I have CODE designer look at the cached file descriptions when creating 
display files, and wanting to reference a physical file when off line?
Can I edit what information shows in the "Table" of field information to 
include the alias (used all the time for COBOL field names!)?
Can I drag and drop the field names or alias names from a table view to an 
editor?
What _can_ I do with the cached file descriptions?
Are any of these issues addressed in V5.1 that I need to order from my BP?

I appreciate any help that you experts can give me.  Any and all advice is 
desired/needed/ignored (as appropriate!)

Thanks!



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Jim Essinger
Senior Programmer/Analyst
UnLtd / SLFI / IMA
PO Box 730
Fruitland, ID 83619

208-452-4058 Extension 133
esinger@xxxxxxxx

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