Re: She (SDA/RLU 7.6) loves me she loves me not

That’s why so many people stuck with Code/400 for so long. It was a better
option for screen design than SDA. I can’t even remember the last time I
used SDA.

Thanks,

Jason E. Olson
IBM i Engineer/Developer
josys36@xxxxxxxxx



On Tue, May 13, 2025 at 12:18 PM Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

As I understand it, RDi _will_ get the Ai interface. But it is being
developed in Code for i first.

It is strange how many people seem to use SDA still for green screen
maintenance. Until I started using the RDi screen designer I tended to
just use the editor to modify DDS screens because the quirks of SDA drove
me nuts.


Jon Paris
Jon.Paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

On May 13, 2025, at 1:18 AM, Gad Miron <gadmiron@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Thanks everyone (a long list...) for enlightening responses

I surely mourn the (not so early) demise of SDA/RLU 7.6
Larry (DrFranken) has looked for it in a 7.6 partition and nada - it's

gone.

upgrade to 7.6 will certainly be postponed for several reasons:

a. Lots of old code (with its green screens & spool files to PDF)
maintenance is still required.
hell, we even occasionally use an old S/36 application .
b. I'm not sure RDi is up to the task (especially Menus),
c. Since AI assist is apparently a VS Code only operation, I tend to

think

that that RDi is
on the same path of SDA
d. That's why when my boss suggested two month ago to drop maintenance

for

RDi licenses
I said sure, the future is VS Code anyway. )-:

So I guess 7.6 will wait until VS Code / Code for i acquires those lost
features.

And,
I'm really pissed off with IBM - they should have known better.

Gad
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