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After reviewing this RFE it was determined that this has already been delivered on a past release, please try this on the latest version to verify. If it does not meet your expectations please open a new RFE with the appropriate details.
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
This RFE is consistent with our roadmap and is being considered for delivery in the next 2 year time frame. Thanks.
We had a web session with IBM rep Mike Hockings and it turned out that Eclipse compare behaves 'as it supposed to'. When line is repeated, the line number that Eclipse inserts in pos. 1-6 repeated twice. The second line constitute a 'difference'. But when new, empty line is inserted, there is no line number assigned to that line and Eclipse ignores it as 'no difference'. This behaviors is not consistent from ISPF-developer perspective. More important, Eclipse should not use number it inserts as a base for identifying the differences. Cobol compiler does not look at positions outside of pos. 7-72, neither should a compare utility (as an option, of course). From ISPF-developer point of view, empty line is an empty line. We would like you to mimic 'LPEX editor' compare options where you can choose to ignore empty lines, and not whitespace characters. Empty lines for us means 'all blanks' in pos. 7-72, regardless whether a line was inserted or ‘empty line' was repeated.
We realized that when line is repeated and it is blank RDz sees the additional line as a difference, but when an empty line is inserted it does not. It seems to be a defect. You can see the progress by following PMR. I would like to cancel this RFE, but I guess it is past 24 hours.