RE: Web poll WDSCi / SEU / Code400 results after 146 respondents

For anyone that is interested in getting v7 (cross post from WDSCI-L):

From: Claus Weiss [mailto:weiss@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 8:32 AM
To: Websphere Development Studio Client for iSeries
Subject: [WDSCI-L] Additional download capability for WDSC V7


Hi folks, we have added the capability for our WDSc V7 entitled
customers
to download the V7 image via the entitled software supported website
starting March 16 which is the general availability date for WDSC V7.
The following webpage contains more information about this new option:
http://www-306.ibm.com/software/awdtools/wdt400/about/entitlements.html

So you will have three  ways to get WDSC V7:
1. Ordering WDS no-charge supply feature code 2658, this will get you
the
physical media
2. Ordering the PTFs, this will download the V7 image onto your System i
(we are in the process of building these PTFs we don't have the numbers
yet, as soon as we get them we will post them)
3 Using the entitled software support (ESS)  (one time registration
required for first time users) , this will download the image to a
target
directory in your environment

I hope,  this additional option addresses some of the concerns you had
with
ordering the new WDSC release.

Claus Weiss Visual AD tools, email: weiss@xxxxxxxxxx
Dept 522 IBM Canada Lab tie 969-3987 Phone(905)413-3987 FAX(905)413-4850
Greetings from Toronto

-----Original Message-----
From: DeLong, Eric [mailto:EDeLong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 9:43 AM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: RE: Web poll WDSCi / SEU / Code400 results after 146
respondents

All in all, it kinda makes me a little nostalgic for the CISC to RISC
days.  What a glorious transition that was....  Except for the problems
with non-observable programs, I can't think of any real glitches that
arose from the 48-bit to 64-bit conversion.  Its old news to us now, but
IBM should tell make more use of that message....  

-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Joe Pluta
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2007 3:15 PM
To: 'RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries'
Subject: RE: Web poll WDSCi / SEU / Code400 results after 146
respondents

From: Booth Martin

I am curious:  Is it true that all 32-bit PC applications do not run

on

64-bit PCs?  Why won;t WDSC at least run as a 32-bit app?

No, absolutely not true.  Remember, I've been running WDSC 6 (and before
that, WDSC 5) on a 64-bit box for some time now.  No, the problem is
specifically (as far as I can tell) in the DLL that provides native GUI
support.

I don't know the specifics, but my guess is that in Eclipse 3.2 somebody
is
using APIs that don't work on the 64-bit platform.  I've seen some
sporadic
oddities in the GUI in prior releases, but I originally wrote them off
as
either my video driver or the fact that I'm using 1680x1050 resolution.
However, I'm now leaning towards incompatibility between 32-bit and
64-bit.

What really irks me, though, is that there has been zero response from
any
of the channels I've tried.

Joe