WDSCi troubleshooting

Tips on troubleshooting WDSCi:

First, search the archives

How do I clear the cache?

There are two caches to be cleared:

• Window > Preferences > Remote Systems > File Cache > Clear-"Clear cached files"

• Window > Preferences > Remote Systems > iSeries > Cache > Clear-"clear the current cache"

• NOTE! You must restart your workspace immediately after clearing the cache!

Where is my workspace stored?

File > Switch workspace

I'm getting a 'Workspace in use' error

• Use Windows Explorer and drill down into your workspace.
• There's a directory called .metadata
• Inside that directory is a file called .lock
• Delete that file and restart WDSC.
• If you can't delete that file, you may have some bits of Eclipse still running.
• Either reboot your PC or use the Windows task manager to kill eclipse.exe
• You may also have to kill the Java Virtual Machine, too. It'll be called javaw.exe. *Unfortunately, you'll probably have more than one. I'd kill the one using the most memory, but that's no guarantee to be the right one, so watch out!
• In this case a reboot is a safer mechanism.

Workspace crashes error V6

You should do a back up save of the workspace first.

• Try deleting the .registry file
• Shut down WDSCi.
• Delete the .registry file.
• When WDSCi restarts it should rebuild the file.

• Recent install of the Arcad Software plugins and since then most of the iSeries languages are not showing colored tokenization.

• Upgrade problem from 6.0.0 to 6.0.1.
• It turned out some of the IBM plugins were not being picked up by Eclipse.
• Resolved the problem by navigating to:

\IBM\WDSC\6.0\eclipse\configuration
Move the folders named:
org.eclipse.core.runtime
org.eclipse.osgi
org.eclipse.update
To a backup location and then start WDSC.  
This will force it to rebuild its plugin configuration based on what is installed.

• Assuming the problem is fixed, you can then just delete the folders you moved as they will have been recreated.

• If this does not fix the problem you most likely need to do a reinstall.

Workspace crashes error V7

You should do a back up save of the workspace first.

• You could try to delete

\.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.core.resources\.snap
and
\.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.core.resources\.root\.markers.snap

I have a custom compile command. How do I get the error list back into WDSC?

First, make sure that you are setting a *CURLIB. This is very important, because that's how the UI finds the EVFEVENT file generated by the compiler. Technote 1231854 from ibm.com describes the official IBM help on the subject. Also, see the tip at WDSC tips

RSEF1002E Error

Operation failed. File system input or output error.

• Exit WDSCi and reboot your PC.
• I changed my password recently. For some reason my password got disabled. Also my Netserver password was disabled. (see Disabled User IDs in Netserver via Navigator.)
• I reset my password, had my Netserver ID enabled and rebooted, all was OK.

Debug SEP and UPDPROD(*NO)

• Error message, 'Member <membername> cannot be opened while UPDPROD(*NO)'

Try

• Preferences
• Run/Debug
• iSeries Debug,

you'll see an Update Production Files checkbox.