Re: How many of you will stay at V7R5 lower due to SDA removal ?

No - even as we have at least 2 or 3 developers who are using SDA on a regular basis, we will go to
7.6 when the next hardware switch (leasing) is due.

We are using RDi - and the few guys who are still maintaining 5250 applications with 5250 tools can switch today.

But we are also in the process of switching to VS Code / Code4i as our primary IDE. And even if there is no 5250 designer, the combination of editing DDS code and having a preview of the resulting screens would be enough for most of our work. More often I find myself editing the DDS manually in the designer, because it's a bit tedious to do a simple COLOR(WHT) in the designer GUI. Also a 5250 designer is in the works right now, and I think it will be available later this year.

And I think Code4i might even be an option for /36 maintenance - we (the community) just needs to create syntax highlighting for OCL and maybe RPG/II - both shouldn't be so hard, as the groundwork is already done.

Kind regards,
Daniel

Am 24.07.2025 um 05:41 schrieb Richard Schoen <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

I’m just curious how many of you folks will stay at V7R5 because of this short sighted move or removing SDA and forcing RDI as an option or the non-completed VS Code SDA alternative.

There’s no reason that SDA couldn’t have been left on the box for those customers who are using it.

We have a number of older customers using S/36 environment code and I don’t think I can advise them to go beyond V7R5 unless they are planning to stop maintaining their green screen apps.

Interested in your thoughts.

Regards,
Richard Schoen
Web: http://www.richardschoen.net
Email: richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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