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Status Delivered
Categories Client Install
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 20, 2015

Refresh ALL Copy Members

In RDz v9, the Local syntax check functionality was officially deprecated. IBM recommends using the real time syntax check instead.

But the deprecated "Local syntax check" was useful to refresh modified dependencies: for example, if copybooks referenced by the module currently opened in the Cobol Editor were modified outside RDz, then a "Local syntax check with refresh dependencies" in the Cobol Editor could be used to update the local copies of the copybooks and make sure the variable references could be resolved with these updated versions.

The *Remote* Syntax Check on the other hand works on the updated versions of the copybooks on the host, and correctly adds or removes error markers, but it doesn't update the copybooks on the RDz client: the cached versions under <workspace>/RemoteSystemsTempFiles/FttRemoteTempFiles are not updated and so the real time syntax check doesn't know about these updated versions, which is very confusing.

There is a "Refresh Copy Member" context menu action when a copybook is selected, but it only refreshes a single copybook. This is cumbersome to use when the edited module uses dozens of copybooks and we don't know which ones might have changed.

Closing and reopening the Cobol Editor also refreshes the dependencies, but we shouldn't have to do that.

This RFE is to ask for a new action to refresh ALL copybooks in a single action.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    Jul 11, 2017

    This enhancement was delivered in IBM Developer for z Systems 14.0.0.5.

  • Guest
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    Jun 6, 2017

    This enhancement is in plan for an upcoming release.

  • Guest
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    Oct 8, 2015

    Thank you for taking the time to suggest an enhancement to our product. Many of our product enhancements result from feedback from our customers, so your input is always very important to us. Your request is currently inline with our product strategy and we have planned it for a future release of the product. Thank you for your suggestion and continued support.

  • Guest
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    Sep 14, 2015

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Programming Languages
    Product - Developer for System z

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Rational
    Product family - Design & development
    Product - Developer for System z

  • Guest
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    Jul 21, 2015

    A preliminary evaluation of this request indicates that it is consistent with our business strategy. Further evaluation of this RFE is underway.