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Status Not under consideration
Workspace IBM Engineering - Workflow Management
Categories Source Control
Created by Guest
Created on Feb 5, 2024

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option to ignore Cobol sequence numbers on the SCM web UI

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When comparing Cobol sources in the EWM SCM web UI in the browser, and sequence numbers were either removed or reordered between the compared versions, the comparison shows all the lines as being modified just because of these sequence number changes thereby making the comparison useless for code review purposes.

We would like to be able to only consider the actual Cobol code in columns 7-72, while optionally ignoring columns 1-6 and 73-80 which may only contain sequence numbers or other non-code information.

This should work like the existing options that appear in the IDz toolbar when a Compare editor is open on a Cobol file, to ignore changes made in columns 1-6 and 73-80.

Different populations use different clients: for example a Cobol developer would use IDz, whereas an Application Manager could use the web UI, because they don't code themselves, only review other people's changes. That is why it is important to have this option available both in the IDz and web EWM clients.


 

Idea priority Medium
Needed By Quarter
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    |     Feb 26, 2024
    The EWM Ideas review board has evaluated this request. This request, while valid, is unlikely to be addressed in the next 18-24 months due to other higher priority items on the Backlog. Although we are closing this request, it will be kept in IBM's ideas repository and may be reassessed or reopened for additional discussion in the future. We value your feedback and thank you for allowing us to partner with you in developing our products.

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