Re: SEU and V7R1.

["Raul A. Jager W." <raul@xxxxxxxxxx>]

There used to be a "long-established policy" about charging extra for 
interactive capability, it is gonne in the newer models.  I think IBM 
will revert the SEU policy.

Vernon Hamberg wrote:

> Alan
>
> If you have to use SEU, you can ignore the syntax errors when you exit 
> SEU. The compiler still knows about the new stuff.
>
> As someone else said, this is a long-established policy - hey, when did 
> 6.1 come out?
>
> HTH
> Vern
>
> On 6/17/2013 5:48 PM, Alan Campin wrote:
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> > I can't believe this has not come up before. Maybe I am blind.
> >
> > Looking at the articles on the new V7R1 features that Kurt sent out I see
> > this gem!
> >
> > Here's what's really interesting: SEU's syntax checking has been frozen at
> > the 6.1 level! That means that SEU will not recognize any of the 7.1
> > enhancements and will detect these new features as errors.
> >
> > This is a disaster!
> >
> > Both my current company and the previous company have refused to buy the
> > RDI tools and at $1,660 bucks I am not too surprised! Unless you work in a
> > shop where they will spend the $1700 bucks per developer plus maintenance
> > you are effectively locked out of using V7R1 features unless we turn off
> > syntax checking. A big reduction in productivity.
> >
> > Anybody know of any efforts to get checking turned back on in V7R1?
> >    
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