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Workspace IBM Developer for z/OS
Categories Usability
Created by Guest
Created on Jun 2, 2009

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text extraction feature

comment extraction feature to pull comments and descriptive text from the source code for adding to RAM assets or even providing a better start for documenting an application. It would cut down on time spent documenting as well as commenting in RAM any information around a re-usable asset as well as help drive better coding practices.

Idea priority Low
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     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
    Reply
    |     Jul 13, 2009

    Although the text extraction feature as described by the user is not explicitly in the product, the overall capability to extract information and create/update assets is currently in RAM.
    The overall concept is to use RAM as more than just a search repository but to use also as a Definitive Software Library (DSL) which provides mechanisms for asset life cycles relative to developer and business processes. For example, using RAM's ant tasks, one could write scripts that would run at build time during a final release build (or Integration build) that would run a Java program extracting the required javadoc from a java file, execute the RAM ant task that would create a published asset containing the newly documented interface... or whatever comments were updated in the java file could be added to the description information of an asset. Or use the RAM Java client API to update an asset. There are unlimited possibilities.
    Attached you will find a movie file that is a presentation from RSDC 2009 (Rational Software Developers Conference) that helps clarify RAM as a DSL.

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