Help!

[bryce4president]

Ok....here goes.....had a bit of a problem with WDSC, it crashed and i recovered with remote host. But when when it crashed i was compiling....long story short, the remote host version was empty. I lost my program! 2000 lines! luckily WDSC writes an expanded source splf so I've copied the splf into a PF. here's my question....how do I edit the contents of the PF? Are there any special tools to do this??

[jamief]

Re: Help!

wrkdbf can be downloaded from this site

I would think youd edit from the PC side then send back to iseries.

can you restore from yesterdays backups??


also check command : upddta &filename

can you send me the text file and if its close I can fix her up.

jamie

[Terry Wincheste]

Re: Help!

luckily WDSC writes an expanded source splf so I've copied the splf into a PF. here's my question....how do I edit the contents of the PF? Are there any special tools to do this??

I wrote a utility to retrieve Cobol or RPG source from a post list (spool file) that may work for you. Its called "Extract Source Code from a Cobol Compiler Listing" and is located here:

http://www.systeminetwork.com/resources/code/misccode/cobolcode/

Terry

[arrow483]

Re: Help!

You should not have lost anything simply because you were compiling. Did you "Save" the source before compiling. I can see where WDSC might not see it, but the source should still be on the iSeries. Heck, it evens "saves" to a temp file (like Word or Excel) every few minutes.

One thing I did learn with V6 is always "Save" before trying to verify, compile, etc. Although it didn't happen often, crashing WDSc did happen a few times where I lost at least some of the source. V7 has not crashed on me yet.

[bryce4president]

Re: Help!

We got the PF converted into the source file. Thanks to Terry. We didn't use your program but we saw what you were doing in your code and we were only 1 step away.

I went and hit compile, it prompted me to save. So I told it to save and then something happened. I don't have the slightest clue, but whatever it was it erased my source file and WDSC wouldn't respond. So (maybe this wasn't a good idea) I went into task manager and killed it. Then when I recovered from remote host, instead of recovering from WDSC (I assumed the remote host file was ok) I had NOTHING! But all will be well, I just have to delete about 4000 lines of a 6000 line source file now. Time to clean...

[jamief]

Re: Help!

now terry .......I cant believe you didnt post that here

also it may be late but it look as though the source
(if in a project - not sure if not i only use projects)
it archives your programs on your local pc.

In my case here
C:\Documents and Settings\flanary\IBM\rationalsdp7.0\workspace\retu rn to vendor\SOURCE






jamie

[Terry Wincheste]

Re: Help!

now terry .......I cant believe you didnt post that here

That was written before your "time" ... lol

Terry