Some IBM perspective.
The ability to save off PF-DTA files into i Projects is intended to allow
source control of binaries including data. The i Project is the way to
allow source control like Rational Team Concert to manage artifacts. The
PF-DTA is intended to be opaque on the client.
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From: John Yeung <gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio
Client for System i & iSeries" <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 18/03/2015 02:42 AM
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] "Copying" PF-DTA to client via RDi's "Make
Available Offline" generates a .OAR file
Sent by: "WDSCI-L" <wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 5:52 PM, Dan <dan27649@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
But, once extracted, I'm guessing I need an editor that reads
EBCDIC. Any recommendations?
Well, I would have thought RDi does! (That's only partly a joke.)
My hex editor of choice, which does read EBCDIC and is freeware, is HxD:
http://mh-nexus.de/en/hxd/
Now, forgive me for being ignorant of RDi-centric workflows, but what
do you do with this PF once you've got a local copy? If it can
somehow be used by RDi to check your source code (verify you've got
the right field names and are using them appropriately, etc.), then
OK. I would imagine there's no other choice than to have it the way
RDi gives it to you (because it's really giving it to itself).
But if you want a local copy so that you can inspect the data, then
either RDi should already have some facility for this, or you really
ought to consider working with the data in some other form.
What I normally do when I want to work with data off-line, is download
as CSV or Excel, and then work with it locally using Python. Python's
data capabilities are pretty impressive, actually. But there are
plenty of other choices, including setting up an actual database on
your PC. It wouldn't be DB2 for i, but it would have similar
capabilities.
I am still kind of amazed that you write RPG off-line. It would never
occur to me to do that. So maybe you want to work with data in a way
that hadn't occurred to me either.
John Y.
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