Application Development ToolSet (ADTS) - V6R1
ADTS for System i is an integrated set of host-based development tools you can use with confidence as you build your applications. It combines established tools, like PDM, SDA, and SEU, with new utilities. ADTS is an optional feature of the WebSphere Development Studio for System i product.
ADTS supports the ILE languages: ILE RPG, ILE COBOL, ILE C, and ILE CL.
Please note that Rational Developer for System i provides more productive and modern tools to support the same code base as ADTS. Rational Developer for System i is a new Eclipse based workstation tool that helps you rapidly and cost-effectively modernize your System i applications and get you ready for the on-demand business environment.
What's in ADTS.
The tool suite consists of a base set of ten utilities for creating and maintaining applications, and two additional features for controlling the development environment.
Base set of utilities
- Source Entry Utility (SEU)
- Screen Design Aid (SDA)
- Report Layout Utility (RLU)
- Data File Utility (DFU)
- Character Generator Utility (CGU)
- Advanced Printer Function (APF)
- Programming Development Manager (PDM)
- Interactive Source Debugger (ISDB)
- File Compare and Merge Utility (FCMU)
Additional features
- Application Development Manager/400 which will only be supported until V5R2.
- Application Dictionary Services/400 which will only be supported until V5R2.
ADTS Enhancements for V6R1
There are no enhancements for V6R1. It is recommended that you consider use of the new Eclipse based workstation tool Rational Developer for System I for development of traditional System I applications.
ADTS Enhancements for V5R4
While the effort is focussed on expanding the capabilities of the workstation development tools in WebSphere Development Studio Client for iSeries, IBM continues to maintain the currency of ADTS.
- The syntax checking in SEU is updated to address the language enhancements available in i5/OS V5R4. Additionally, syntax checking in SEU is now performed for free-form RPG calculations.
- A new network server configuration object (*NWSCFG) support in PDM allows you to operate on the *NWSCFG object using the options in PDM.
- New options in the command (CHGPDMDFT) for changing the PDM defaults.
- Log option commands — Specify whether or not commands resulting from PDM options or user-defined options are logged to the job log.
- Exit lists on ENTER — Specifies whether the user can exit list panels using the ENTER key. The list panels include Library, Object, Member, and User-Defined Options.
- RLU has been updated to include toleration support for the STAPLE keyword.
ADTS Enhancements for V5R3
- RLU Printer File AFPDS DDS keyword AFPRES toleration support.
- Recovery function enhancements for SEU, SDA and RLU - design changed on the recovery function to include the ASP name in the recovery entries, thus enabling the recovery on the correct member within a specific active ASP when there are identical library/file/member names in another ASP.
- Implement the CHGPDMDFT command to Change PDM System Default Information globally outside PDM.
- The complete PDM IASP support for STRPDM and WRKLIBPDM commands which will provide the same selection parameters as in the WRKLIB system command. The enhancement will enable PDM to access libraries in different ASPs with selection criteria on the ASP device or number.
- PDM to support 2 new types of objects PDFMAP and TIMZON.
- SDA Display File DDS Keyword TIME( [ *SYS | *LCL] [*TIMZON] ) toleration support.
ADTS Enhancements for V5R2
- RLU: Printer File DDS Keywords Support on P-to-System field Partameters
- PDM: IASP support on WRKLIBPDM.
ADTS Enhancements for V5R1
- SEU:
- Supporting of the OPCODE of ELSEIF and FOR to use the CX Prompt instead of the C Prompt in RPGLE
- Supporting of the source type CPP to have a default of lower case input
- Support of expanding the spool number size from Bin (16) to Bin (31)
- RLU: Printer File DDS Keywords Support
- SUPC: Support of expanding the spool number size from Bin (16) to Bin (31)
- PDM: Added new functions FNDSTRPDM2 and FNDSTRPAR2 commands to search by using a list of members to search
- DFU: Trigger and constraint violation rollback information processing and messaging to inform user
ADM Enhancements for V5R2
- Expansion to 250 libraries support
- Backup of user data files for new release installation
And Now for Some Details
Your familiar set of utilities are better. The latest enhancements help to increase your productivity. You can code and edit with prompting and syntax checking using SEU. In edit mode, you can use a function key to toggle left or right for comments. Using SDA, you can design screens, menus, menu bars, and selection fields. DFU gives you the ability to enter data and update data files quickly. You can create programs that enter data and update files in a database automatically. With RLU, you can lay out the format for printed reports interactively instead of having to work with DDS.
With PDM, you can work with iSeries objects from within lists. When you organize your libraries, files and members into lists, you can work more quickly with them and issue multiple commands at one time. Now you can see the name of the system session you are working on, a help when you are working in a multisystem environment. PDM options help you to work directly with Application Development Manager/400. PDM has expanded its support for Application Development Manager/400 to handle Visual Age for RPG and System/36 program development parts.
ISDB is a host-based interactive debugging tool used for debugging OPM programs. ISDB lets you see the source code on the screen as you set breakpoints or display or change variables. You can find errors in the source with commands or function keys, and you can perform actions from the source code on your screen using a menu bar, pull-down windows, function keys or a command line. You choose for convenience or familiarity.
FCMU gives you a fast and versatile way to spot changes in your source code to increase the efficiency of your debugging and testing activities. Now you can automate comparisons of different versions of your program. You can compare at file, word or line level. You use the merge function to merge updates in a previous version of your code into the latest one. A split screen can show you the conflicting changes between two files so that you can choose the one you want. If you need to synchronize multiple versions of a source file, FCMU can take the compare output and integrate it into the base file automatically.
For example, you have an initial release of an application. Then you add some code for site customization. Later, when you bring out a new release of your application, you can bring your customized code into that release. And you can incorporate new updates as you work on a release.
FCMU helps you with change management, regression testing, gathering program statistics, and other development management activities.
For More Information
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