Rational Developer for System z

Why special tools are required by smart logical layout

Standard Eclipse-based tooling assumes that bidirectional data appear in pure standard logical layout (not including marks). The only utilities for working with marks provided by Windows and Eclipse are "Insert Unicode control character" and "Show Unicode control characters" available in text editors. Though sufficient for simple text editing, these utilities are unacceptable for program development, because search, compare, compile, and other standard Eclipse features do not support correct processing of marks. Using standard Eclipse tools for work with bidirectional data that includes marks for certain tasks (such as standard search or compare) may give wrong results (string not found in search, wrong compare, wrong result of replace). In other cases, when bidirectional data is edited, a user can accidentally remove invisible marks, which in turn can lead to bidirectional data corruption.

To support correct processing of bidirectional data containing marks, special handling has been added to the following Rational® Developer for System z® tools:
Rational Developer for System z bidirectional users working on program development with remote visual files have the following options: A special Change bidirectional format conversion utility is provided in Rational Developer for System z to allow conversion of files from one bidirectional layout to another inside the Eclipse workspace.
Note: Configuring bidirectional support

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