IBM, you have some explaining to do.
VPN connections: I doubt they experience a one-second delay for every line
Yep, full manifestation of the "impedence mismatch" between what was always a thin client server centric model vs distributed fat clients.Not solvable elegantly and efficiently in IBMi if one insists on fat clients.
Common in use fat clients IDEs bring some benefit in other environments because for example you can test code locally, run a test suite in a simulated VM etc.
In IBMi , you are always connected, no matter what, require a central online machine to work.IMHO the only real IDE (SEU) replacement in IBMi should be something installed centrally, PTFed with the other components.And one would connect via web (thin terminal) to work (in absence of a real thin graphic protocol). Syntax checkes, string search in million lines code bases, AI assistance, db browsing, all done simply server side, with the proper security checks and hardware accelerators.
There are some decent web based IDE in another environments (i.e. full cloud), pretty workable.You are at a customer, you have linux on your laptop and you want to connect to edit a source? done in a second. Mac, easy. Old win7 with an updated browser, no prob.I know that they propose now a "Merlin" thing (never used to be honest), but the IMHO the thing to be of any success should be easy to install and start, like a PTF group, not having to deal with an openstack monster just to run an editor.
regarding the OS versions, I'm still on V7R4 and I own the machines.I would have jumped in a second to power11 and V7R6, but the mandatory subscription thing, out of a now trite broadc0m playbook, plus the EOLing of some tooling, let me backtrack a little to investigate some details better. I guess full enthusiasm to doubt (fully auto induced by IBM deciders not tech per se).
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