Editing Source Files using Eclipse and FTP

You can access all your files using FTP. This article will show you how to Edit-In-Place with Eclipse Neon.3 and Remote Systems Extension.

Setting up the connection

• Add a new connection:
  
• Choose FTP:
  
  Input your hostname, username and so on.
• Open Preferences and set transfer mode for files to ASCII:
  

Setting up a filter to access files

You can access your files by browsing the filesystem's root, but this is much more handy:

• Create a new filter:
  
• Input folder with this format: /QSYS.LIB/YOURLIBRARY.LIB/YOURPHYSICALSOURCEFILE.FILE, for example: /QSYS.LIB/SNDBX.LIB/SNDBX.FILE
• You can now access the members of this file:
  
  
  (see also: Beginners Project: Hello World (using C))

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• Links
  • In case you like vi (or vim) better: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/58937739/edit-sqlrpgle-file-over-ftp-with-vim
• Footnotes