RE: Merlin

Hi Justin,
Can you point to where IBM have made a statement about VS Code being the future?

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From: MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Justin Taylor
Sent: 24 March 2025 20:03
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Merlin

IBM has made it clear that VS Code is the future (their RPG copilot will be released for VS Code and they haven't even committed to RDi integration).
That being said, I'm sticking with RDi for now. I love the idea of VS Code code4i, and I check it out a couple of times a year. For me, it's not feature-complete yet (biggest gap is equivalent to RDi Outline view).

I know that some frustrated Mac users have abandoned RDi, but I've always used a company-supplied Windows PC so that doesn't apply to me.



On Mon, Mar 24, 2025 at 1:10 PM Dan Bale <dan.bale@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Last I looked, there was a high cost to entry with Merlin, both in
terms of dollars and specific technical expertise. Given that a lot
of developers are still refusing to give up SEU, I honestly don't see
a lot of shops making that investment.

We have RDi licenses here, but just last week a developer trying to
upgrade to 9.8 had a devil of a time with applying the permanent license.
RDi kept returning extremely vague error messages and it wasn't until
I discovered that the user's install somehow managed to have a
floating license instead of the permanent license, even though our
instructions for users to install RDi 9.8 are crystal clear and the
user in this case is not one for PEBKAC errors. After several days
before we finally determined the issue and had to get IBM to tell us
how to delete the floating license, he was ready to jump ship to VS Code for i.

I've got both RDi and VS Code for i installed on my work laptop. I
primarily use RDi due to my several years of experience with it, but I
am learning to use VS Code for i on my personal laptop for when I work
on PUB400. Does anyone who has used both have a good reason to
recommend RDi over VS Code for i?

- Dan Bale

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