But, I think everyone is missing the point... or the "big picture" here...
A true "cache" should be 100% totally transparent to the user, other
than improving the speed of processing.
IMHO, it should NEVER be necessary for an end-user (or developer) to
tell the tool to "refresh" anything that is "cached" ... the tool
should easily be able to verify, in the background, and silently refresh
and keep the cache "up to date" automatically, e.g. whenever you are
connected to the host(s), by checking each file 's last changed date on
the host and comparing it to the date the file was downloaded into the
local cache.
[I will admit that there might be some circumstances where you might
want to be able to temporarily turn off this behavior, but for the most
part, I think the default behavior should be to automatically keep the
"cache" up-to-date.]
Apparently, ever since the invention of the web browser in the
mid-1990s, we all became conditioned to the idea of a local cache of
files, and having to tell the browser when to "refresh" or "clear" the
local cache. But, that does not make it the "right" design decision.
Although, I understand the rationale for that decision at that time --
we mostly had much slower dial-up connections to the internet back in
those days. But nowadays, most people have some kind of high-speed
internet access. So, I think it is high time to change the concept of a
"local cache" back to what it is supposed to be, a transparent way for
the local client-side software to be able to do some things faster than
would otherwise be possible without a cache. This should be invisible to
the end user (or developer) using the tools -- other than the fact that
they might notice that some things run faster (once those files have
been "cached".)
Sincerely,
Mark S. Waterbury
> Joe Pluta wrote:
DeLong, Eric wrote:
I have seen this as well. If I'm remembering this right, this usually happens when the field(s) is output only. It seems the outline view is populated from input record formats.
This I haven't run into. I'll have to look into it when I get a chance.
In other cases, it seems that a cached file description in WDSC is not getting refreshed. This occurs when adding fields to a file, and trying to make those new fields visible to outline. I usually end up clearing the two cache features, end and restart WDSCi.
This is easy to fix... right-click on the file in RSE and select
"Refresh Cached Definitions".
Thanks, IBM!
Joe
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