RE: RDi from a remote connection

Thanks for the info.

No laptop in my world. Desktops at both work and home.

When you use projects are you also changing over to using stream files for all source? Or will it be a stream file locally on the PC and uploads back to the traditional source physical file on the i?

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From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mohan Eashver
Sent: Monday, January 26, 2015 3:48 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: RDi from a remote connection

Mike I am guessing you are carrying the same laptop between home and office. In this case it does not matter where you are connecting from.
Whether VPN from Home or connecting directly thru office you do not need separate licenses.

For home use i recommend using Projects. (It is called Projects on WDSC....not sure what it is called on RDi)

Like Booth M, explained, RDi lets you download sources to your PC. Then you can go offline. Make all changes. And re-establish the connection to your IBM i system & Push Changes and Compile.

But if you chose to modify sources thru VPN without using Projects, then you may run into timeouts while saving the source & the source gets locked on IBM i half way thru saving.




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Regards,
Mohan Eashver


On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 3:29 PM, Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Here is my experience, fwiw.
1-I believe the license is to the user. You can use it as many places
as you like but obviously you can be in only one place at a time.
2-The transition from SEU to RDi was, for me, gradual. One day it
dawned that I had not used an SEU session for over a year.
3-RDi allows you two ways to work on your projects. One is to connect
directly to the libraries on the i and make changes there directly.
The other, which I prefer, is to have the source copied into my PC so
I can work off-line, and then connect when I want to compile. Both
work well. I have also worked on a team where the project was shared
and used SVN. That worked fine, too, although it took me some getting used to it.
4-RDi is really great if you want to connect to more than one system.

all fwiw.

On 1/26/2015 9:36 AM, Mike Cunningham wrote:

What's the best way to use RDi when working remotely (like a home
office)? As I try to move from SEU to RDi for development I find
myself going back to "the old ways" because it is so much easier to
do work using SEU from home over VPN and secure telnet. I am also
not sure of the licensing rules for RDi vs the unlimited license I have for Client Access.
Do I need to purchase another RDi license for home use? I would
still VPN to work with RDi which I could then remote to my office
desktop but that just adds another layer of complication. Is anyone doing this with RDi?

Thanks
Mike Cunningham

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