Re: CHGPF - Cannot drop fields

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yep Mark - I just saw the COMMON requirement while burrowing around in 
there.

Thanks for submitting it there.

On 5/28/2015 2:23 PM, Mark Murphy/STAR BASE Consulting Inc. wrote:
> Vern,
>
> Since I believe this is a two part enhancement: IBM i to provide a way to redirect those inquiry messages, and RDi to provide a way to reply to the redirected inquiry messages. I have entered both an RFE (for the RDi part), and a Common requirement for the IBM i part.
>
> Mark Murphy
> STAR BASE Consulting, Inc.
> mmurphy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
> -----Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: -----
> To: Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio Client for System i & iSeries <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> From: Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 05/28/2015 11:55AM
> Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] CHGPF - Cannot drop fields
>
> Hi Mark
>
> I hear what you are saying - one option is to change the message
> description to have a default of I - and this is likely not a safe
> option - just as adding an entry in the system reply list is not safe.
>
> Another option is to change your job to INQMSGRPY(*RQD) which, as you
> know, would mean it'd go to QSYSOPR and for the reply and your RDi is in
> *MSGW.
>
> I strongly believe that there ARE ways to get the inquiry back to a
> client (all of which are ultimately batch jobs).
>
> But you are running the CHGPF, not RDi, so the normal processing of
> commands and messages is where we are.
>
> But an option somewhere in RDi for running commands, to handle this kind
> of thing, could be a nice thing - an RFE is in the making, man!!
>
> Regards
> Vern
>
> On 5/28/2015 8:31 AM, Mark Murphy/STAR BASE Consulting Inc. wrote:
> > Really, we are going to force ourselves back to 5250 green screen just because that is the way it has always been? Seems to me since IBM owns both RDi and IBM i there could be some communication between the two teams to allow CHGPF, and ALTER TABLE to drop or shorten columns in the GUI. Is RDi the future for IBM i development or not. If it is, you have to be able to do this.
> >
> > Mark Murphy
> > STAR BASE Consulting, Inc.
> > mmurphy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> >
> > -----MichaelQuigley@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: -----
> > To: wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > From: MichaelQuigley@xxxxxxxxxx
> > Date: 05/27/2015 09:02PM
> > Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] CHGPF - Cannot drop fields
> >
> > Sorry Mark,
> >
> > That's not an RDi issue. That's the been the behavior of CHGPF from a
> > source file since its inception. If you run it interactively in a 5250
> > session, it prompts with an inquiry message where you can ignore the
> > error. Running the command any other way, always results in a 'C' to
> > cancel the command.
> >
> > Michael
> >
> > > ----- Message from "Mark Murphy/STAR BASE Consulting Inc."
> > > <mmurphy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> on Wed, 27 May 2015 11:55:10 -0400 -----
> > >
> > > To:
> > >
> > > "Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio Client
> > > for System i & iSeries" <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > Subject:
> > >
> > > [WDSCI-L] CHGPF - Cannot drop fields
> > >
> > > I am having issues dropping fields with CHGPF and RDi 9.1.1. It
> > > tells me it worked, but the file does not change and the log
> > > includes a CPD32CE  indicating that a C was used to reply to
> > > CPA32B2. If I use CHGPF directly from a 5250 interactive command
> > > line, I get the option to ignore the error. Is there a way to do
> > > that in RDi? Not sure how you would redirect the inquiry message to
> > > the RDi job as it is a batch, and takes the default reply which is
> > > C. Just wondering if anyone had solved this without changing the
> > > system reply list.
> > >
> > > Mark Murphy
> > > STAR BASE Consulting, Inc.
> > > mmurphy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx