Re: websphere dev studio 5.1

["Buck" <buck.calabro@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mike wrote:

> It was actually an IBMer who suggested trying
> to stick with this as we might find the upgrade
> too demanding on hardware. Do you
> have a different view?

Scott wrote:

>Yes, the latest version of WDSC takes a lot of
>resources, but you can still just use CODE/400
>and not the rest.

This is presuming that you can _load_ WDSCi.  My PII 450 with 128 megs of
RAM refuses to load WDSCi.  And there's no option to load only a part of it,
either.  It's all or nothing.

Scott also wrote:
>The older version of CODE/400 may not support
>everything you need it to.  If you are on V5R1 or
>V5R2, there may be some RPG IV features that
>came available that the older version of CODE/400 will
>not support.  So if you plan on doing free format RPG,
>you will need the newer version of CODE/400 in WDSC 5.0.

I can't speak to whatever enhancements IBM may have made to WDSCi - Code/400
but it is my understanding that there aren't many.  Maybe bug fixes?  I use
/free with WDT 5.1 - Code/400 and have no problems at all.  Since I have to
target V5R1 systems, I don't know what V5R2 features the old verifier
doesn't check for.  It would be interesting to see if WDSCi - Code/400
handles V5R2 code any better than WDT 5.1 - Code/400.  A quick experiment
shows that the verifier doesn't understand %bitand, so that might make for a
quickie test for the folks on WDSCi to try with Code.
  --buck