How to re-install WDSCi ?

SysAdmin is preparing to reload all of my software and files on a different but similar notebook that has been reformatted. As much as I'd like to transition to RDP, that's not in the budget. Best I can hope for is to get my existing development environment replicated as close to identical to the WDSCi I have now. If there are any further updates or fixes available before it went off support, I'd be happy to bring those in as well.

Last I knew, SysAdmin had WDSCi CDs from the Nixon Administration (might be version 6). Or if there were CDs included when we upgraded i/OS 7.1 in April, 2010, he might have whatever media arrived with that -- Don't know.

I have (according to Installation Manager):
IBM(r) WebSphere(r) Development Studio Client for iSeries(r)
V 7.0.0.8 (7.0.0.20090225_1508)
IBM WebSphere Development Studio Client for iSeries, Version 7.0.0.8 Interim Fix
V 001 (7.0.0.8_20090312_1000)

I don't know what WDSCi can be acquired via download or CDs, or how we might upgrade it, if an older version is all we can get. If there's a way to transfer the installation from my current notebook to the new notebook (both with MS Vista Business), might we be able to do that?

Does anyone have any ideas on a preferred procedure?

Incidentally, we won't be transferring the whole hard drive or its contents in entirety. The whole reason for this exercise is a Windows clean-up. It's all tangled up in its shorts, and crashes pretty much weekly. I'd crash too if I was 4 years old :)

Michael Koester

DataEast
Weare, NH