WDSc Survivor
Five Brave RPG Programmers Move from PDM/SEU to WDSc
November 1, 2004
Day 15
Day 15
Got my code back from yesterday's snafu. Only took be 15 minutes. Wow, if you keep recoding the same thing, you get better at it! :)
My learnings today:
I attempted to debug an interactive program in WDSc. The setup for the debug session was easy. Then it got to the point of actually doing something and I got a nice window that said it couldn't continue because I didn't have the necessary PTFs installed on the server. I click on the button to list the PTFs and there they were! OK, my fault, but back to green-screen and my trusty STRDBG command!
I went into Window/Preferences/LPEX Editor/Appearance and changed my default font size from 10 to 12. I also found that is where I can play with all my colors. They have a default color scheme that appears very similar to SEU green-screen. Go figure.
I had copied an HTML file from the IFS view in WDSc. The HTML file I opened was in the IFS. I then click on Save As and renamed it. I thought that is saved the copy in the IFS. I then couldn't find it in the IFS though I had been working with it on screen for days. I only found out it wasn't in the IFS when I ran my RPG program and it couldn't find the HTML file I was using as a report template. Come to find out that Save As saves the file to your local, working directory. From the Save As, I couldn't even navigate to any local drives or the IFS. I ended up doing an Export of the HTML file I'd been working on in WDSc and then I could specify the local drive or network drive (IFS). I then closed my open editor for the HTML and reopenined the file from the IFS view in WDSc. Not what I expected but probably my own fault for not knowing more about the environment. Heck, I thought I was doing good getting the font changed!
My recent projects involve IFS files and RPG. I have really enjoyed the fact that I can code and see the results in the IFS from the same environment. I used to have PDM/SEU up in emulation, Notespad in another window and Explorer in another. Now, I have WDSc and they are all open and available through simple navigation.
Posted by at November 1, 2004 7:43 AM
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