Re: Add F8 to your F9

I'll jump in where angels fear to tread - I don't think RDi is a very good system admin tool. And Rob, did you say you use it?

I do think PDM CAN be useful in working with objects and all - not just for development, as the name suggests. That's why a subset has been packaged for creating CLs and working in various ways with objects. But there are probably better tools available.

The web-based Navigator is positioned by IBM for system admin - as well as HMC, so far as I know.

Regards
Vern

On 10/11/2019 1:11 PM, midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Rob:

I can see where you can accomplish everything with RDi in an environment
like yours, particularly when everything is in one network, points for that.

Those of us that manage many systems across many customers where we have to
start/stop VPN access each time, that's not such a treat. We are also
dealing with multiple versions of the OS, many times unsupported versions,
so that adds to the intrigue.

-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Rob
Berendt
Sent: Friday, October 11, 2019 12:23 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: Add F8 to your F9

I have 15 lpars of IBM i. Of these, maybe 4 of them even have PDM loaded.
Two of the four have no source on them. Well, maybe a CL source or two for
HA switching but in general, no source. Source is generally on the
development lpar and the objects promoted to production.
I don't see how PDM is such a boon to administration.

Rob Berendt

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