Paul Gilmartin wrote: >I had a disappointment with XEDIT Update mode: If I touch
>a line; have second thoughts and restore it, even by an >immediate ERASE EOF, it puts the line needlessly in the >Update file. Working in a cooperative development project, >I resorted to using basic XEDIT and generating my updates >with SuperC UPDCMS8. As others have pointed out, this is easily remedied by editing the update deck. And good hygiene means at least viewing the update deck to be sure you understand all the changes anyway. Having worked with CMS UPDATE for 30 years and now without it for 15, I much prefer CMS UPDATE. That could just be because it's ingrained in me from having seen it first, but I find diff and checkins MUCH harder to use when trying to understand "What changed with this fix?". Plus it seems like folks have a greater tendency to lump multiple changes in a single checkin. That's hygiene/habit, but I'd argue (perhaps not convincingly) that the AUX/CNTRL structure makes this more obviously A Bad Thing To Do. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
