I have just started at a new client in the application development and maintenance area and at the moment am in a mood of outrage at two of the vendors we love to hate. My greatest ire at the moment is aimed at Compuware and File-aid. I have a multi-format record file so I am using the XREF capability to get formatted listings and compares. The description for the detail doesn't have 4 filler bytes at the end (the detail description is actually the description of the DB2 table entry, not the flat file detail with record code in front). Listing is fine with the complaint about the missing 4 bytes. However the [EMAIL PROTECTED] designers of the compare function decided to default to hex listing of the record on a mismatch with not way out of this that I can find. I can see listing the last 4 bytes in hex but why are they so brain dead as to print the entire record? I want to use production descriptions, not something I cobble together.
Endevor, the premier change management system keeps the listings from program compiles but doesn't provide a way to display them from the display elements list where you can find other information about your program. Instead the designers decided you should use the "L" option of display footprint and key in the obscure data set name of the listing file at the level your program is at with the name of the program as a member name. Underneath the covers they convert this so they can show you the listing they have stuffed in what appears to be a VSAM data set. The help doesn't even tell you how to display a program listing. In the case of file-aid it is at current release (8.9) and unless something is unusual Endevor is also current. Of course unlike IBM, you have to log in to look at their manuals. Clark Morris cfmpublic at ns.sympatico.ca ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
