Re: User space editor in iSphere - get "No editor selected" error

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thx paul - you got it - part of my confusion is, if I right-click a user 
space, it gives me 2 options - iSphere User Space Monitor and iSphere 
User Space Editor. I would never have thought to look at Data Spaces in 
the help.

The help does say this - "From a programmer's point of view, both 
objects are very similar; essentially each is a string of bytes"

Then there's this designer to make an "editor" that breaks out the 
various values, "fields", etc.

All that seems good - I've not made it work for what I want yet.

I am confused that there IS a separate data area section in the help - 
but I've used this and like it - it is like CHGDTAARA but the original 
value is displayed, which the command does not do. No "editor" is needed 
for this, to break up the value into its "format". I DO have examples 
where having that format would be useful.

I haven't got this far - but it seems one must "assign" an editor to 
each specific object. I hope that's not true, but it looks that way. 
Maybe that's OK for some stuff, not sure if it aligns with change 
management tools, though - just asking.

I really want something like EDTF and DSPF for use spaces - see, I do 
NOT see data areas and user spaces as being the same "...from a 
programmer's point of view..." - at least, not all the time.

So if I have not specified a layout - and this is NOT practical with 
many of the APIs, due to varying lengths and all manner of offsets and 
lists that vary in number - I want to have the ability to simply work 
with the entire contents - and handle bytes that are not displayable - 
the stuff before x'40', for example.

I look forward to future develoopments in this arena - hope my thoughts 
are helpful!

Vern

On 6/12/2015 1:52 PM, paultherrien@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Aren't user spaces and data areas called 'data spaces' in iSphere?
> I don't have iSphere installed, but I did some light reading last night.
>
> Paul Therrien
> Andeco Software, LLC
> 225-229-2491
> paultherrien@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> www.andecosoftware.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: WDSCI-L [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Vernon
> Hamberg
> Sent: Friday, June 12, 2015 2:44 PM
> To: Websphere Development Studio Client for iSeries
> Subject: [WDSCI-L] User space editor in iSphere - get "No editor selected"
> error
>
> I have the latest version 25 installed and tried the user space editor.
>
> I get a window showing the type (*CHAR), length, and description, then a
> rectangular area with this text in it -
>
> No editor selected. Cannot display any data.
>
> I have assumed that the message is an Eclipse thing, so googled for that
> text and haven't found anything useful in my short search.
>
> And the help for v26 does not mention this editor - and nothing obvious in
> Preferences.
>
> I tried adding a file type of *.usrspc and associating the Eclipse text
> editor with it - no luck.
>
> Thoughts, anyone?
>
> Thx
> Vern
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