Re: WDSC Is Out, Rational Developer for System i Is In

personally i've been singing the same song here since i set foot in the
door....rewrite or at least convert the crap to ILE!!!

Thanks,
Tommy Holden



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It depends, Tommy.

How many developers do you have? Do all of them need all of the tools?
If you're the only ILE developer, then maybe you only need one or two
licenses.

The bigger issue is going to be what constitutes a user. As hard as we
hammered it, IBM was still sticking to "named" users rather than
concurrent users, which is going to make segregating workloads a little
more of a problem. I'd LIKE to be able to say that for a given shop of
say, 5 people, that up to three would be using ADTS simultaneously, and
three would be using RDi. You'd slowly dwindle the number of ADTS users
and crank up the RDi users as you moved to the new paradigm. Same thing
with the compilers: if only three people do OPM COBOL, then only they
need heritage licenses.

The points is that managing your licenses will require a little more
work, but you'll have more control over what you spend and you'll also
have a fiscal incentive to standardize your shop.

Joe

sounds like it's gonna suck when our lease runs out next year. we have

a

3rd party package (actually from the corporate company we're a dealer)
that's all OPM COBOL from the 1960's...and there's still some old S/36
s/38 stuff and everything i'm writing in house is ILE...oh well...there
goes my profit sharing....